chuck wendig – This is Not a Blog

What really bothers me about Wendig’s firing is the things that lead up to it and the message it sends. If it were just for “vulgarity” I could understand, even if I still don’t think that’s a reason to fire anyone. What bothers me is that Wendig’s vulgarity and “negativity” was the result of the harassment he’d been getting. You can only push someone so far and make them go through so much before the lash out and that’s what happened. Wendig’s blog lists some of the things he’s been through and honestly, it’s vile. The kind of things the people who create Star Wars have to go through is asinine. Wendig pushed boundaries by including LGBT+ characters in his content and possessive, whiny homophobes didn’t like it. So they complain and they scream and they cry and they harass for years and Wendig gets more and more irritated and becomes more and more bitter until finally the whiners get what they want and Wendig is no longer writing for Marvel and Star Wars. That’s a really disturbing issue.

There’s also the issue of Wendig being “too political” which is also ridiculous and frightening.

The message this sends it that harassment works. If you’re loud enough, if you’re mean enough, if you’re a constant, incessant jerk willing to do anything from calling people names to telling them to kill themselves, to literally calling SWAT on them, you can eventually drive that horrible person out. There are no consequences for the people who forced Jake Lloyd out of acting. There are no consequences for the people who bullied Kelly Marie Tran off of social media. There are no consequences for the people who SWAT-ed Chuck Wendig.

It’s vile. It’s deplorable. It needs to end. No more. Absolutely no more of this crap.

I don’t know how to fix the issues in fandom The only thing I know how to do is two fold: 1) Support creators receiving harassment. 2) Stop harassing people and stop making excuses for people who do it. It doesn’t matter that you do or do not like something, there is no excuse to take your feelings out on another living person. Grow up and let it go.