More than a li’l frustrating btw seeing the Jewish erasure that I’ve been seeing with Stan Lee in the wake of his death
like it’s always been a thing
but his name was originally Stanley Lieber
and as a medium comics were built by angry Jewish kids more than anyone else and in the current environment it’s important to keep reminding people of that
stop calling him an old white guy
Saw a tag on this like “well he WAS still a white guy but he was a Jewish white guy” and I need you all to understand that being ethnically Jewish and looking European descent means a person is effectively white-passing, not white.
This isn’t going to change until we don’t have even fringe antisemitism around and it’s not going to change when there’s still people in the world like my bigoted aunt being nasty towards people she THINKS are Jewish.
Stop calling Stan Lee an old white guy.
Just got a dumbass anon trying to explain to me why it doesn’t matter that people are erasing Stan Lee’s Jewishness so let me point out that the entire reason he TOOK a pen name was so that people at the time that he did so wouldn’t ignore him for having a Jewish surname
“but AO3 *wants* writers on their platform, writers are providing a service for them, that’s how they get content.”
no, they are PROVIDING you a platform. for your content. as a service to you.
please, please, please learn how the internet works.
the companies that WANT you on the platform are the companies that are SELLING YOU TO ADVERTISERS.
*Facebook* wants you on their platform. *Tumblr* wants you on their platform. *FF.net* wants you on their platform. You are Facebook’s product. Facebook is not a service to you. It is an incentive for you to give them eyes and data to sell. And the second your eyes and data stop being profitable they will toss you under the bus.
That’s why fans made AO3. So we had a space that was ours, that wasn’t profiting off of us, so we wouldn’t get sold out.
Yep. It’s an archive, a repository, not an entertainment service.
It still shocks me how many active, participating fans – including frequent users of the site – do not understand that most important distinction.