The SJWs turn against Gail Simone over a joke in Plastic Man

It can happen any time, to pretty much any leftist as much as rightist. It's now happened to Gail Simone, as she discovered the perpetually unhappy, unsatistifed leftists for social justice have turned against her as well, over jokes they didn't like in her new Plastic Man solo book. And maybe unsurprisingly, she apologized to these fools, over elements that are actually quite tasteless nevertheless:

Okay, I have a serious thing to address. Please forgive me if I am still trying to put my thoughts together.
It’s regarding Plastic Man.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 9, 2018

Please also keep in mind that this series had an unusually long delay between being written and being printed so my memory is a little hazy.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 9, 2018

In issue three of Plastic Man, he briefly imitates Harley Quinn. In one panel, he clearly has a bit of a bulge despite otherwise being a pretty clear match for Harley.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 9, 2018

Now, my read of the scene is one thing. Plas has been imitating other characters for seventy years. He’s poked fun at Wonder Woman, Iron Man, My Little Pony and the Transformers in this series alone. To me, that’s the fun, he makes of characters more popular than he is.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

And for me, it’s Importent to note that he doesn’t BECOME those characters, he imitates them. He’s still himself, even pretending to be Wonder Woman.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

However, some dear trans friends have pointed out to me that the scene reads entirely differently to them.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

There is a common shitty trope out there floating around (and in fiction, too) about trans people ‘tricking’ or ‘luring’ unsuspecting people. It’s a shitty garbage myth and it’s gross and disgusting.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

And some people read that page as Plastic Man perpetuating that fucking trope, trying to seduce Man-Bat. What I meant as a little fun poke at a character I like a lot, Harley Quinn, reads very differently to the people who have to live with this trash myth.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

I know people can read the same scene differently. All I can say is, with 100% surety, that is absolutely not my intention, it would never even cross my mind, the trans community gets far too much shit already.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

But that isn’t really important. What’s important here is the trans community.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

And to them, I’m sorry for this page. We’re going to try to get it adjusted for the tpb.

Plastic Man’s emotional core in this series is trying to protect a genderfluid kid. The LAST thing I want to do is hurt or poke fun at trans people.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) August 10, 2018

Considering how thin-skinned they're being, I don't think she should've apologized to such victimologists whose ideology is full of contradictions. That said, the material I read on the BIC site looked so heavy-handed, it's insulting all the same, because, if men are being made to look more feminine than women are at the moment in mainstream comics like these, that's why the whole Plastic Man story falls flat and isn't very funny at all.

Still, it demonstrates perfectly the SJW mentality of turning against their own and throwing them under the bus when they're looking for any petty reason to be offended. And look how they may turn this into another case of modifying a pamphlet story for its trade editions, only here, unlike the case with GI Joe and Centipede, it's for the wrong reasons, even if the story's visual "humor" is still insulting to the intellect.

Things have also changed quite a bit since Simone wrote Birds of Prey in the mid-2000s, with Ed Benes as artist. Today, the chances they'd use his style could be far less likely, and she's probably disowned her work there altogether.