Thread:Nausiated/@comment-30566352-20180315030005/@comment-61022-20180315201723

Hi,

Sorry for the late response. Looks like one of the other admins set the page for deletion before I had a chance to deal with the issue myself.

I can understand that the term is deemed as hurtful and seeing it on our site could be hurtful and upsetting. Please accept our apologies. We want people from all walks of life to feel comfortable visiting our site and making contributions. With the rapid change in societal sensibilities in these turbulant yet progressive times, we need to keep up. That said, I'd like to think our community is open to everyone regardless of who they are and how they identify. I think for the most part any used of offensive terms is likely due to ignorance, lack of awareness, or misunderstanding. I don't think anyone who regularly contributes to this site is intent on singling out one group of individuals out of hatred. Truly and openly bigoted people are usually rooted out and banned pretty quickly around here.

I concur that the term is incredibly outdated and the offensive term, by today's standards it shouldn't be listed as a category. I was looking at the creation history and it looks like the page was created back in 2013. The individual who created the page is multilingual, however as I understand it, English was not his strong suit at the time, so the intent was not intended to be hateful.

That said, I think the term should not be used as part of the writing style of this Wiki to identified transgendered individuals. The only exception being addressing when the term is used in the comics and only to point out that is a dated term and why it's no longer acceptable to use such a descriptor, or if there was a narrative point of using such as the use of an offensive term to make a point on why it is such.

For example, in the 1940s there were a handful of African-American characters that are considered incredibly racist by today's (Whitewash Jones and Slow Motion Jones being the two prime examples) Even though Marvel has since revived the characters in a more respectful manner, we list their early offending appearances because even though they are presently offensive, they have a historical context that reflected the sensibilities of the time and they are presented and explain in a way that readers understand that those depictions are considered inappropriate now.

Another example is which features a scene where Kitty Pryde uses the N-Word to demonstrate how hateful the term "Mutie" is to mutants.

That said, some years ago I wrote an article about these kinds of issues. Focusing more on race than gender identity and sexual orientation. Primarily since I was researching a lot of comic books from the 1940s that were rife with offensive depictions of different nationalities. You can check out that page here and feel free to add anything you like.

As we are an open source community, please feel free to edit any articles that may contain these dated terms. The Wiki has been around for over a decade so I'm sure that there may be less informed appellations that may be lurking. I am certain that any such terminology wasn't added to be hateful but rather was out of ignorance and lack of awareness during a period of time where these issues were not commonly discussed in the mainstream.

In the event you can't make any changes because a page is locked please let myself or one of the other admins look into it and we'll see what we can do. Our admin team is a very open-minded group who try to keep up with the current social sensibilities and move forward with the times.

I sincerely apologize for any negative feelings that the use of this term may have caused you. Even if it was unintentional, an apology is still due and we hope you will accept ours.