🐱 DC comics just introduced its first TERF

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
CatParty


DC Comics has just added TERF to its lexicon in the latest issue of Green Lantern.

The word – an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist – is used to describe people who identify as feminist but who opposed including trans women in spaces reserved for women. Writer Viv Smythe has been credited with coining the term in 2008 after she wrote a short series of blog posts that used the acronym.

Now, DC Comics featured the term TERF in the last issue written by an LGBT+ author. This is the first use of the word in DC Comics history, as reported by Bleeding Cool, which asserts that “some consider it a slur”.


The Green Lantern Season Two #12 is the final issue in the series written by non-binaryauthor Grant Morrison and illustrated by Liam Sharp. The comic features a large crowd with words like “queer”, “Nazi”, “fat”, “tool” and “TERF” being used as insults.

The terms were used to illustrate divisions between people during violent clashes shown in the comic, based on previews. It’s not clear if DC will continue to use TERF in future comic books.

Morrison, who is a TV and comic book writer and creator, has worked on a variety of projects including Doom Patrol, The Flash and Green Lantern. They came out as non-binary in an interview with Mondo2000 in November, saying they had been “non-binary, crossdressing, ‘gender queer'” since they were 10-years-old.


Sharp said the issue is a “season finale” for his and Morrison’s sci-fi comic book series. He said on Twitter: “I’ve said it many times, but I’ll miss Hal [Green Lantern] and Grant Morrison loads. Already am!”


The duo has been working on this rendition of the Green Lantern comic series for the last two years. And according to Sharp, this is Morrison’s final contribution to the DC Comics Universe.



There are several “Green Lanterns” throughout the DC Comics history. Many of these superheroes are part of the “Green Lantern Corps”, an intergalactic law enforcement organisation that boasts over 7,200 members. Each Green Lantern is given a power ring which grants them the use of superhuman abilities.

Sharp and Morrison’s series featured Hal Jordan, a former combat pilot who eventually becomes a leader of the Green Lantern Corps. Jordan is also a founding member of the Justice League alongside Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.
 
Click to expand...
There is nothing that says "True and Honest Wamman" less than a grownass adult unironically stanning capeshit, video games, and cartoons.
 
Eh, get back to me when there's a super villainess violently misgendering trannies to death. This is boooooring!
 
This is actually an improvement, getting institutions to label TERF a slur (which it is undeniably used as) is better than the institutions' usual firing of the "TERF."
 
"It’s not clear if DC will continue to use TERF in future comic books."

Indeed, they could say it once more or never again. They could say it precisely nine times and then stop. They could even stop using acronyms entirely. Stay tuned for hard-hitting updates.
 
Morrison already gave us a TERF in 1989's Arkham Asylum. Dr. Charles Cavendish dresses up in Elizabeth Arkham's wedding gown and takes Ruth Adams hostage in the dead woman's bedroom, appropriating both a woman's clothing and her spaces. When Batman tracks them down, Cavendish reveals he's completely insane, calls Ruth an ignorant cow, and strangles Batman while calling him a mommy's boy. Unwilling to stand for this woman-shaming language, Ruth slits his throat and puts an end to the transsexual menace.

He also depicted Maxie Zeus as queer. "Part man, part woman. Electricity enflames my brain. Voltage. Current. The power of heaven." He keeps a barrel of his own shit, believing it will transform the dry lands of Africa into fertile orchards and men will worship him for it. When he invites Batman to consume it, the hero simply walks away. Because in the 80s you could still treat crazy people that way, you could still walk away from them.
 
Standardized Profile said:
Morrison already gave us a TERF in 1989's Arkham Asylum. Dr. Charles Cavendish dresses up in Elizabeth Arkham's wedding gown and takes Ruth Adams hostage in the dead woman's bedroom, appropriating both a woman's clothing and her spaces. When Batman tracks them down, Cavendish reveals he's completely insane, calls Ruth an ignorant cow, and strangles Batman while calling him a mommy's boy. Unwilling to stand for this woman-shaming language, Ruth slits his throat and puts an end to the transsexual menace.

He also depicted Maxie Zeus as queer. "Part man, part woman. Electricity enflames my brain. Voltage. Current. The power of heaven." He keeps a barrel of his own shit, believing it will transform the dry lands of Africa into fertile orchards and men will worship him for it. When he invites Batman to consume it, the hero simply walks away. Because in the 80s you could still treat crazy people that way, you could still walk away from them.
Click to expand...
Pics of the Maxie Zeus thing
 
CatParty said:
It’s not clear if DC will continue to use TERF in future comic books.
Click to expand...
It's not clear if DC will continue to be able to produce future comic books.

From The Uncanny Valley said:
At this point it's actually cheaper to be a weeb...
Click to expand...
Manga has always been a better value page-for-page, but a true fan has free scans of both that never cost them a single doubloon.
 
The only capeshit I ever liked as a kid were the Batman and X-Men cartoons from the 90's, the PS1 Spider-Man games, and the PS2 Punisher game.

The PS2 Punisher game is still a fun game but that's about it.
 
Standardized Profile said:
Just imagine Dave McKean with a black sheet of paper and some blue paint, whatever you imagine will be pretty close.
Click to expand...
6aa8b1845db8ba0a-600x338.jpg

This him?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom