Woke Marvel Comics Uses White Woman to Lecture Hispanic Woman About Why She Should Call Herself "LatinX" Instead of "Latino" or "Latina"

Perfecto.

No, this isn't a parody of the woke position.

This is oblivious woke people doing what oblivious woke people do: stupidly lecturing about things they are perfectly ignorant about.

Bounding Into Comics explains how Marvel's attempt to pander to Hispanics turned into Woke White Leftist Women lecturing Hispanics.

As usual.

This is from Marvel's tryhard pandering title, Marvel Voices: Comunidadex Vol. 1: Latinx and Proud. (Why not Marvel Voces: LatinX y orgulloso, you bigots?*)

[T]he aptly titled 'Latinx and Proud' story begins with the Hispanic Spider-heroes Miles and Anya rescuing a woman from a mugger as she was headed down to "an immigrants rights rally at city hall."

Yes there are "Spider-Heroes" now of every race and gender because everyone needs their own Spider-Person. Or Spider-PersonX.

Helping the woman pick up her protest signs, Miles and Anya then agree to attend the rally, swinging off to Miles' Brooklyn home to create their own set of protest materials.

Zam! POW! KERRRANGGG!

Shortly after their arrival, Miles' mom, Rio Morales, returns home from the grocery store, only to find herself puzzled by the use of 'Latinx' on one of their signs.

This leads her to ask Anya, "What does that mean? Latinx. I've heard the term thrown around lately but I've never had the opportunity to really ask about it."

And thus begins the Woke Lecture about LatinX, given by a smug white leftist woman (Anya) to an actual Hispanic woman (Rita Morales).

I guess I should say that Anya's last name is "Corazon" but she's obviously white coded (redhead) so she's Spanish/European. A "White Hispanic," as the New York Times would say.

Rita is confused by this silly nonsense-talk of her deranged and smug white guest, but when Miles points out that the Spanish word "ahorita" can have different meanings depending on context, she realizes that language is messy and we should call people whatever they like -- especially if that language involves "personal identity."

Which is exactly the way that middle aged Hispanic mothers talk, in my limited experience. They talk exactly like 26 year old white leftwing hipster Twitter-Addict Brooklynites.

"The world outside your window." Nailed it again, Marvel!

KA-THOOOM! Can you feel the excitement?!

Hey Kids!!! Comics!!!

Tip via I, Hypocrite, who says, "Marvel Comics were different when I was young."

Indeed. They've gotten so much better, haven't they?

Todo que es "woke" se convierte en mierda.

Unrelated, but they look like supervillains:

* Ya Boi Zach calls this "Dora the Explorer Spanish," where you just use the Spanish for one very obvious cognate in a sentence, to make it "sound Spanishy," while not being Spanish at all.

I mean, this is a convention a lot of people use, but Woke Marvel should do better. If you're going to do a LatinX Pride book, commit to the bit and do the whole thing in Spanish. Don't be COLONIZERS and write it with English with only a few TOKEN Spanish words here and there.

Do Better, Woke Marvel.

Do Better.

posted by Ace at 01:31 PM

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