RAAAAN

but even getting rid of their age gap the relationship is clearly still predatory in nature it’s an obviously weird dynamic. She immediately singles out an isolated boy she knows people are afraid of “they call you a witch boy” and rubs off on him in a way that looks very purposeful and heavily flirtatious. (Smirking. Remaining eye contact.) +

She Gets him to take her out. She singles out his insecurities (being bald) and lovebombs him. I even think she calls him “jaguar” to make him feel he’s accomplished and attractive to her.

It’s also obvious that Charles doesn’t understand he’s being groomed as he just escaped his abusive home he states how lonely he is and has traveled all the way to Oxford alone. she seems nice to him + he’s a child getting affection from a beautiful woman so suddenly. He’s in a very vulnerable position as he’s never seen an example of a healthy marriage and has been abused/witnessed abuse his whole life. He even states himself he just “got away from the chaos at home”

There are other observations like the fact she looks much older and mature than him. She is drawn with more defined features while he looks very smooth/round faced and boyish.

And most obviously she tries to have his baby after two months of dating and lashes out in anger when he’s reasonably scared + blames him for the loss of her child in the future that wasn’t even his. long after their relationship.

It’s actually sad to read Charles blame himself “and because I am who I am” So imagine the shock when Gail Simone made a post calling them Fun together 😭

We were shocked because we knew Charles and Sarah’s age gap when called out on it Simone claimed he wasn’t underage which we know by now is impossible and could have been an error.

Charles age when he got in collage is pretty well known by writers/fans and has been referenced during the krakoa era as far as I’m concerned. Now you can say that this is just an embarrassing mishap by Simone and the writing team. (Can’t believe a writer is saying she’s looking something about a character up) but Simone has seen not just an age gap referenced before but Charles being called a teen and she didn’t deny it at all.

It would have spoiled nothing to comment about it at the time if she was truly as shocked as she’s acting like she is now then why didn’t she deny it then? Unless she knew all too well and is trying to maybe save face by backtracking? I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again sarah was confirmed to be written as an adult “they were not underage” and we know and even Gail knows that Charles was a teen but even if this somehow gets retconned sarah being called an abuser isn’t far off the mark. So I wonder what compelled her to backtrack And call them fun?

I want to add I see nothing wrong with writing abusive relationships in comics at all. I was never mad at the retcon itself. I’m not saying that. this wouldn’t be the first time Charles has been written being abused in a relationship and I think it’s fascinating to read + write about if done with respect. I mean, I’ve written two entire analysis on his other abusive relationship. So If anything I find it and this relationship interesting because it can add a lot of context to the way Charles acts to his students and how it plays into his abusive childhood and it makes sense that someone who’s so young in collage and only ever knew abuse in his life would be taken advantage of quickly. I’m not saying she can’t write abuse+grooming I don’t care. what I do care about is seemingly knowing you did so and knowing your fans know this and then suddenly backtracking when called out to romanticize it.

Her Uncanny X-men run has already been criticized to death with the previous criticism being pointed towards her mischaracterization of characters and her consistent racist dialogue towards Asian characters both in and outside of her uncanny X-Men run.

Self-explanatory. I can already hear the “but Deadpool and the juggernaut are supposed to be assholes!” What about Logan? He’s always respected Japanese culture. It’s a pattern. And I’d still argue Deadpool and juggernaut wouldn’t say this. And I didn’t even include the characters hostile behavior towards her new black character who’s a teenager. Valentin aka ransom. And of course I’m only criticizing Gail Simone this is no excuse to harass her or anyone even if I’m upset about her seemingly romanticizing abuse and possibly grooming + her disrespect towards non white characters. Sadly this isn’t even just a her issue. Characters of color have been getting treated worse and worse lately abuse has been fetishized and that’s in X-Comics alone much less the rest! it’d be unreasonable to paint it as solely a Gail Simone issue. These things are part of massive problems in marvel/DC as a whole.