[B5JMS] JMS Interview at fanboyplanet.

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "Ben P" <ben at p.freeserve.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:06:06 GMT


Jms at B5 <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote
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> And something else, while I'm at it.
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> Here is everybody stomping on Gwen for having sex when she was in-and-out
of
> relationships with Peter.
>

As lots and lots of people have tried to point out, JMS, people are not
stomping on Gwen. People aren't saying "Oh my God, Gwen is such a terrible
person! I don't want to read a comic which features such an evil, cheating
slut! I only read comics about decent, wholesome young women who are
unfailingly true to their boyfriends!"

People are saying things along the lines of "Oh my God, Straczynski is such
a dreadful writer, coming up with a storyline revealing that something very
major happened between the panels of comics published thirty years ago and
yet featuring the characters from these comics behaving in a way that is
entirely incompatible with the way they behaved in the earlier stories in
question."

Which may or may not be true, but when your only response to the second
criticism above is to deride and abuse the notion of the first, you're
really not helping to change people's opinions of the story.



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 20 Oct 2004 00:23:16 GMT

>As lots and lots of people have tried to point out, JMS, people are not
>stomping on Gwen. People aren't saying "Oh my God, Gwen is such a terrible
>person! I don't want to read a comic which features such an evil, cheating
>slut! I only read comics about decent, wholesome young women who are
>unfailingly true to their boyfriends!"

Not true.  Go to google for a web-search, enter the search terms for gwen't
name and the terms slut, whore and tramp.  Go see for yourself.  What you just
said is not only untrue, it's *demonstrably* untrue.  It's not a matter of
opinion, it's a matter of record.

 jms

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