White British lady steals the body of a young Asian woman and uses it for decades to ensure fetishests keep buying her comics..... Ya nothing offensive there right...
Nah...nah, man. Sometimes offense is definitely given. I'm not saying that's the case with Psylocke, but it's absolutely ludicrous to say that no one ever means to be offensive.
People mean to be offensive sure. But whether they succeed or not lies entirely with the receiver. You can't be offended if you don't let someone offend you. It is ENTIRELY in your own mind. And thus by allowing yourself to be offended, it weakens your character and you give away your control to others. Don't be a doormat.
While I mostly agree with what you're conveying, people are allowed to have feelings about things. Being upset that the most popular Asian character Marvel has probably ever had is actually a white British woman who "stole" her body is reasonable to feel some type of way about for people who care about that type of thing.
Tbh I never knew that about her character until this year. I've always liked Psylock but that was something I never knew. So it doesn't seem important to me.
Also, she's still an Asian chick. She was possessed by the mind of a British chick but the woman underneath is still valid.
Either way I think it's just a really dumb thing to be upset about since it's a comic character. No one's forcing people to like her.
I think the crux of the disconnect between you and people who take issue with this is that you're of the mind that it's still an Asian chick, just now with a British mind. The reality is that it was always a British woman who then, depending on the story, "stole" the body (and life/agency) of an Asian woman. Thats beyond cultural appropriation, which has been a hot topic the last decade-ish especially. It doesn't help that Psylocke then became fetishized for her new form
You literally just described your first sentence and said the same thing twice. It IS an Asian chick with the mind of a British woman. When the Psylock takes her original body back, the Asian girl still lives and becomes her own force.
And yeah. It's called having an interesting storyline. How is that not something interesting and unique for the character? There's a shit ton of story material you can draw from that. And again, YOU keep focusing on the race issue. That's YOUR hang-up my guy. Stop relegating people to just arbitrary characteristics of birth. It's more racist to have a problem with this character than it is to be a fan of her.
Also, the only people actually concerned about cultural appropriation has been people not worth the time to discuss it with. It's an asinine argument that comes from a basis of racism regardless of the white-knighting and virtue signaling saying otherwise.
Also, it's comics. EVERYONE is fetishized in it. It's ART. It's about beauty at its core.
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u/tombuazit Apr 29 '25
White British lady steals the body of a young Asian woman and uses it for decades to ensure fetishests keep buying her comics..... Ya nothing offensive there right...