Political commentator Bill Maher is being criticized for dismissing the work of Marvel comic book legend Stan Lee, who died last week at the age of 95.
“The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning. Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess,” Maher wrote on his Real Time blog Saturday.
Maher’s words got folks riled up because he later called comic books “kid stuff” and asserted that people “pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature,” all before surmising that he didn’t think it was “a huge stretch” that President Donald Trump got elected “in a country that thinks comic books are important.”
to all the aro/ace poc out there: you are not faking it, you are not “self hating”. you are just as real and valid as any other aro/ace and any other poc.