A two year-old list written by recently-hired "Guardians of the Galaxy" writer-director James Gunn has been making the rounds this week, in particular this gem:
Over at The Mary Sue, writer Susana Polo articulates, which calls out the "Super" and "Slither" filmmaker for homophobia, slut-shaming, and endorsing corrective rape. Polo comes out just this side of advocating that Marvel/Disney fire Gunn for the offending line, but for good measure there's already a petition out there demanding that Gunn get the axe.
This--I struggle with calling it a "conversation" based on the headline of Polo's piece alone--is ostensibly about personal responsibility for public statements, the continued mistreatment or marginalization of female comics fans (and across the spectrum of sexuality), the question of whether an employer should hold an employee to task for something they say on their own time.
Really, this is about Gunn--a funny man who's made some terrific and occasionally sensitive films--making a joke that didn't land.
