From a recent interview:
Speaking of “judging” Guggenheim said a lot of people who aren’t reading Spider-Man or refuse to read Spider-Man are judging it based on misunderstandings. “Part of the problem with the controversy behind One More Day is the understanding of what was retconned overstates the extent of what was done,” he said. “Everything that happened in the last twenty plus years of comic book history happened! The only difference is that Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson weren’t married. They still dated. They still lived together. They still love each other. They just weren’t married. Judging from the letters and death threats we received, I think some people were confused. It all still happened.”“Here’s my attitude, if anyone is upset about the marriage going away, then they must all be pro gay marriage,” he continued. Because if you’re pro gay marriage, you understand the distinction between a marriage and a civil union — that a civil union is not equal to a marriage. We downgraded Mary Jane and Peter to a civil union. If that bothers you, then you’re pro gay marriage.”
See what he did there? That’s a rather nice bit of gay-baiting he pulled off. Guggenheim basically just called anyone who didn’t like the One More Day story-line a faggot, while phrasing himself in such a way as to make it look like he’s being gay-supportive.
Now, it’s possible that Guggenheim isn’t really meaning to call people who didn’t like the storyline faggots. You could read his statement as a knowing dig at the homophobia of comic fans. But, if so, that doesn’t really help his case, because he just compared an ongoing civil rights issue, an issue that is at play in the current election cycle, an issue that affects real people’s lives, to a fucking super-hero melodrama.
That kind of belittlement of the issue is even more offensive.
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