It's the Marvel milkshake crew! #FabulousFlo pic.twitter.com/ogn8KEYuPM
— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) July 28, 2017
Comics community responds with amazing #MakeMineMilkshake hashtag.
Last Thursday, Marvel Editor Heather Antos (The Unbelievable Gwenpool) posted this photo of a bunch of her work friends at Marvel enjoying milkshakes together.
If you are thinking, “What a fun-looking group of women! I’d like to hang out with them,” congratulations. You not one of the pathetic members of the “He Man Women-Haters Club” that flooded her inbox and Twitter feed with misogynistic vitriol and hate overnight.
The poor broflakes were understandably upset that there are currently books on the shelves that are not specifically written to cater to their penises. Womenfolk had entered their “safe space” and were wantonly drinking dairy products and taking selfies like common harlots.
So the women in the photo were blamed for personally causing Marvel’s slumping sales and accused of being “fake geek girls.” To be fair, the men offered compelling evidence for their claims such as “they appear to have vaginas.” And “they were drinking milkshakes.”
Heather was understandably less than pleased.
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
Sadly, this behavior is anything but new. Dozens of women were driven off of Twitter by harassments, doxxing and death threats when the Internet’s septic system backed up and barfed out Gamergate. And comic writer Chelsea Cain was forced to abandon Twitter for awhile because the shallow end of the gene pool was very upset that a character they don’t care about wore a t-shirt they didn’t agree with in a comic book they didn’t read.
But the larger comics community rallied around Heather and the #MakeMineMilkshake hashtag was born. Thousands of fans and creators tweeted words of encouragement, selfies of themselves drinking milkshakes and sketches of heroes enjoying some lactose. A few of our favorites:
Um, @HeatherAntos is awesome, and it was a pleasure working for her. #MakeMineMilkshake #gwenpool pic.twitter.com/WbX7wNhrsw
— mingjue helen chen (@MingjueChen) July 31, 2017
The Force is strong with @HeatherAntos #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/EVl8dw5kYU
— Lee Garbett (@LeeGarbett) July 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/whirringblender/status/891764918864707584
https://twitter.com/PlinaGanucheau/status/891848514170433536
https://twitter.com/Rahzzah/status/891823746339700736
comics + milkshakes + solidarity make for a lovely Sunday afternoon.
we got your back, @HeatherAntos. ?✊️?#MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/AVxopsf9ai— molly jane (@mollyjane_k) July 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/robinfigure/status/891825533327159297
https://twitter.com/tomfeister/status/891822209886560257
sending you some love pic.twitter.com/l4uGPxZLF1
— Lt. Commander Fat Nudes (@fatnudes) July 31, 2017
Heroic Girls also decided to get in on the action.
The Heroic Girls got your back @HeatherAntos. #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/nKITb1OXVO
— Heroic Girls – #MoreThanCute (@HeroicGirls) July 31, 2017
There’s literally thousands of these posts and the number keeps growing minute by minute.
In the end, Heather was back getting another milkshake, and this time, a more few friends decided to join her.
It's the Marvel Milkshake Crew (part deux!) #FabulousFlo #MakeMineMilkshake pic.twitter.com/cJFzrE3Xfx
— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) July 31, 2017
The jerks didn’t go away (they never do), but their steady drip of hate was diluted to near nothingness by the flood of good wishes and sentiment from every sane corner of the comics community.
Excelsior!!