To answer your Sleepaway Camp question, yes, the twist is along the same lines as The Crying Game, albeit in a slasher movie context instead of a dramatic one. I agree with you about "Some fans, assuming". I can't know what the creative team's intentions were with the sequence in question. I am trying to say this correctly so I don't piss anyone off. The creators apologizing for the way the sequence came off in print can be taken at face value, or it can be taken as covering one's rear end. I tend to go with the former, and I also agree with you that Batgirl's reaction -- good, bad, or otherwise -- was a reaction to an intense, crazy situation which just got crazier by having another twist thrown at her. There is also the possibility that -- considering that the title has a transgendered character as a major supporting player -- perhaps Batgirl's response will build into a self-examining character beat down the line.
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:17:45 AM UTC-5, Jenn wrote: > Not to be flip, but if you're pulling off someone's wig--be the wearer > transgender or not--misogyny is maybe not the first problem I have with > your interactions with fellow human beings. In the context of the source > material, though, I agree that it's just as likely to call it mistaken > identity, though the writers could have just as easily kept with "Dagger > Type ?!" as the response and left out the 'but you're a--' and avoided some > of the controversy altogether. > > What I found more telling about the article was that it stated 'Some fans, > assuming' and there you go: readers assume something that, I'm inferring, > was never stated one way or another (that Dagger Type was transgender) and > then get their noses out of joint jumping to the conclusion that obviously > the writers are Making A Statement on the subject by perpetuating negative > stereotypes. While I'm absolutely in favor of being mindful of what we say, > how we say it, and the implications of our stance on things, I'm certainly > not going to pillory someone (even a fictional someone) from experiencing a > very human reaction in an intense situation. > > I'm presuming the Sleepaway Camp reference is a twist similar to that of > The Crying Game? > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> >> http://www.newsarama.com/23011-batgirl-creators-apologize-in-the-wake-of-transgender-controversy.html >> >> Okay, one line jumps out in this article to me. Quoting: >> >> >> "If you pull the wig off of someone who you thought was a woman, it is >> 100 percent transmisogynistic to yell in shocked horror that they are a >> man," said a blogger on *Autostraddle.com* >> <http://www.autostraddle.com/how-batgirl-37-undid-a-year-and-a-half-of-positive-trans-representation-in-a-single-page-269089/>. >> >> >> >> End quote. >> >> If someone is disguised as a woman, and you pull their wig off and are >> surprised they are not a woman, that makes you a mysogonist? Maybe I'm >> just being simple minded here, but I don't understand that. Isn't it a >> case of mistaken identity more than a case of mysoginy? >> >> Does that mean that we are not supposed to be surprised/shocked by the >> ending of Sleepaway Camp? (Look it up if you do not know it, I am not >> going to spoil it here.) >> >> I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I am asking honestly because I think I >> may not be "getting" something. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Jennifer "Scraps" Vanderbeek > > www.ScrapsOfLife.com and www.WhatToFeedYourRaidingParty.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
