Her milkshake brought all the trolls to the yard.
Seriously.
It's the Marvel milkshake crew! #FabulousFlo pic.twitter.com/ogn8KEYuPM
— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) July 28, 2017
Heather Antos is an editor at Marvel, where she's worked on titles like "The Unbelievable Gwenpool" and "Star Wars." It was Friday afternoon, and she and a few coworkers decided to get a milkshake. She snapped a quick picture of the group and posted it to Twitter with the caption, "It's the Marvel milkshake crew! #FabulousFlo" (a reference to Flo Steinberg, a key to Marvel's success, who passed away in July).
This totally innocent and normal photo of seven coworkers hanging out and having a good time was enough to enrage a certain section of the internet. Over the course of the coming days, Antos was flooded with tweets and direct messages accusing her of being a "fake geek girl" or calling the group a bunch of "SJWs" (SJW is short for "social justice warrior," an epithet often used by anti-feminist types to attack people they see as trying to push a social agenda in some way or another). In other words, the response to the photo was completely bonkers and just disproportionate.
The internet is an awful, horrible, and disgusting place.
— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) July 30, 2017
How dare I post a picture of my friends on the internet without expecting to be bullied, insulted, harrassed, and targeted.
— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) July 30, 2017
Woke up today to a slew of more garbage tweets and DMs. For being a woman. In comics. Who posted a selfie of her friends getting milkshakes.
— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) July 30, 2017
Plus, it was a pretty good excuse to step out and grab a delicious milkshake, and honestly, who doesn't like that? (OK, aside from people who are lactose intolerant?)
Comics are for everybody. We proudly support @HeatherAntos! #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/tTyS8IVSRl
— Raygun Comics (@Raygun_comics) July 31, 2017
Hi @HeatherAntos. Thanks for all your hard work bringing my favorite Star Wars character to life each month! #makeminemilkshake pic.twitter.com/AQxHHm2IMA
— Danny Porgtle! (@DannyPirtle19) July 31, 2017
Drink a milkshake to support @HeatherAntos? HELL YES. #MakeMineMilkshake #stoponlineharassment #womenincomics pic.twitter.com/QXZkuDnaUa
— Taryn O'Neill (@tarynoneill) July 31, 2017
@HeatherAntos #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/4Eda9A9E3F
— Abe Peña III (@AbePena) July 31, 2017
#MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/s6o7ejVRWj
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) July 31, 2017
The Force is strong with @HeatherAntos #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/EVl8dw5kYU
— Lee Garbett (@LeeGarbett) July 31, 2017
.@HeatherAntos did a Gwenpool doodle for #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/LGZ16yAIVs
— Levis.Doodles (@Mister_Nunya) July 31, 2017
Anyway, I couldn't get a milkshake today, so the heroines of Treasure in the Core took my place with GALAXY MILKSHAKES! #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/UBwBgDbWSq
— Catrina (@ohcatrina) July 31, 2017
#MakeMineMilkShake With huge thanks to every woman of @marvel, superpowered or merely awesome. @HeatherAntos pic.twitter.com/21p6ToEqao
— Jodie Martin (@jayelem) July 31, 2017
It's thanks to people like @HeatherAntos that my 7yo daughter wants to read and create comics, so definitely, 100% #MakeMineMilkshake
— Barry Hutchison (@barryhutchison) July 31, 2017
Every person in that milkshake photo is a key part of what makes Marvel great. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply wrong. And an idiot.
— Wil Moss (@Wil_Moss) July 30, 2017
The fact that there are people who see a picture of a few coworkers hanging out and think, "This is what's wrong with comics today!" is really toxic.
"Captain Marvel" writer and best-selling author Margaret Stohl let out an exasperated sigh of a tweet about some of the negative attention women in comics get simply for existing.
would be great to be hated for something other than being a girl in comics
— Margaret Stohl (@mstohl) July 30, 2017
Alanna Smith, a Marvel assistant editor who was in the original milkshake photo, summed the whole ordeal up in a tweet of her own.
The #MakeMineMilkshake support is rad, but I can't describe how weird it is to stumble into an ideological minefield by GETTING MILKSHAKES.
— Alanna Smith (@AlannaWrites) July 31, 2017
In April, a Marvel executive made news when he said that "people didn't want any more diversity" in comics to account for a drop in sales. But as others have pointed out, that argument doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny.
No, "SJWs" aren't trying to "ruin" anyone's childhood. And even if they were, let's just let people drink their milkshakes in peace, OK?
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