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Right now, I can say it's written biased towards one side which isn't how a Broken Base entry should look, and gives me bad faith vibes.
That's poorly written. And considering how very little attention was given to her being transgender in the original Simone run, it was the opposite of being shoved in anybody's face.
Correctly or not, I get the impression that whoever wrote this is the kind of individual who thinks any mention of somebody being transgender is of the in-face-shoving variety.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro
Honestly, I'm not sure I've ever seen that specific wording used by anyone who didn't at least seem to be a bigot. Add that to the usual "Broken Base entry that's 99 percent rant with 'but some people liked it' tacked on", and I'm inclined to think it should be cut unless a better argument is presented.
Edited by nrjxll
I brought it to the cleanup thread. Unless we hear back I say cut as it fail to acknowledge the other side.
Update. Cut the entry per this cleanup and ATT.
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught
I was looking at Batgirl (2011), and came across this:
- Wouldn't this be a case of Broken Base, rather than Base-Breaking Character, if the divide is "less about the character herself"?
- Is she even a base-breaking character? I'm not in the Batgirl fandom, so I have no idea what the general mood is, but in my experience, when someone uses the "shoved in the reader's face", it suggests someone's been analyzing things in bad faith.
Edited by StrixObscuro