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Duuuuude, I had successfully excised that guy from my memory and you had to go and ruin that. 

Yes, turning straight characters gay all of a sudden is a problem. 

Increasing the number of female writers, ethnic writers, minority writers (however you define these) & characters that fit these descriptions is not a problem. That these characters talk about their situations is not a problem, & it shouldn’t be a problem, even if they are a derivative character (except that I don’t like derivative characters as it deuniques a character - but that’s a separate issue)

What is a problem is when an established character suddenly, with no previous indication, does a 180, or, through a series of managed manipulations, ends up in a situation where they do a 180 but it doesn’t look like a 180.

Look, don’t bemoan females writing about female issues. Women put up with a lot of crap - that we men just don’t realise. Even when we say we do, we don’t. They are even losing all their safe spaces through ‘self identification’ - concentrate on that, not on ‘have you seen this new female character? How come she manages to solve everything?’ Erm, because she’s the star of the book/film.

But Cyclops should still have never got together with Emma Frost

Cyclops and Emma and the Scott-Jean-Logan love triangle were both bad ideas. As I said before, Logan's feelings for Jean should have been one-sided.

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Okay, thanks.  That brings up a new question--does anyone really care what happened in DARK WOLVERINE?  Or, rather, do such important changes to a character really count if we only read about them in somebody else's book, by a creative team that has nothing to do with said character?

I've been checking in with the FF for at least the last nine years and I've seen nothing of this Daken "relationship" in Johnny's home series.  I had to dig a little bit to find mention of it on the Internet and see any panels.

The thing with Bobby/Iceman is a little different--it was done by his main writer at the time, in a high profile series.  And also, even after all these years, Bobby was sort of a blank slate, especially romantically.  I think he's had two girlfriends in that time and I can't recall seeing him even kiss them.  (However, in the movies--where most people know him from now--he DID have a high profile romance with Rogue, didn't he?  And something with Kitty too.)

With Scott...yeah I don't know what can be done to fix him. At least he's not dead anymore (death and life really are a revolving door for X-Men characters, more than any other superheroes I can think of).