I don’t know how often I can lay the same message out to you, but to hit it once again: I don’t hire writers based on their race, their religion, their gender, their sexual orientation, or their politics. I hire them solely and completely on the basis of their writing. In most cases, I don’t have any more information to go on beyond a byline name–that might suggest gender, but doesn’t specify anything beyond that. Now as I said initially, I will grant you that the situation may have become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophesy in that there don’t seem to be as many female writers or writers of color who are producing the sort of material that Marvel does. But there’s only so much that I can do about that situation–I can’t pull writers that don’t exist out of thin air, nor do I intend to make gender or background the criteria under which I hire a writer. We do bring in new creators all the time, so the door is open for people with the talent and the drive–but the people that you’re looking for have to be interested in walking through that door in the first place.