Posted on 04/29/2014 9:40:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw lamented how the movie depictions of Spider-Man and other superheroes are all "straight, white men" in a Tuesday item on Salon.com titled "America deserves better superheroes: Why a straight, white Spider-Man is no longer a real underdog." Baker-Whitelaw, a "fandom and Internet culture" reporter for the website The Daily Dot, zeroed in on the supposed "ramifications of having eternal underdog Peter Parker remain a straight, white man."
The writer also complimented Andrew Garfield, the actor who plays the title character in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, for wondering why the superhero "can't...be into boys," and contended that Sony, the studio releasing the upcoming movie, "might benefit from listening to...Garfield's comments on the potential hypocrisy of portraying Peter Parker as being marginalized by society." She later hoped that superhero movies would catch up with the "reasonably progressive and diverse representation of real-life America" in present-day comic books:
...Marvel movies are often praised for being more progressive than your average summer blockbuster...but they're still decades behind the comics....none of those movies have starred anyone other than a straight, white man in the lead role. The Avengers franchise has managed a handful of female characters in non-romantic roles, plus Falcon and Nick Fury in the supporting cast, but the mere concept of an openly LGBT character still feels like a pie-in-the-sky dream. Meanwhile in Marvel comics, Northstar came out in 1992, opening the floodgates for a whole host of other LGBT heroes....
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Everything is about sex. Everything.
It’s sodomi and Gomorrah all over again.
Read somewhere that when the TV show “Batman” became popular an article in Pravda painted the dynamic duo as having “a touch of lavender.” This prompted them to add Batgirl to the show.
Almost every time I see an actor spout nonsense like this it’s usually them shouting “ hey Broadway, I’m on your side with the gay thing so pretty please put me in a major show.”
If they put a pervert in a movie, I won’t see it. As for skin color, I don’t care.
Obviously has never seen SNL’s Ambiguously Gay Duo.
The standard format for most any new TV situation comedy (even in a drama, for that matter) is a cast consisting of:
One or more black people, one Asian-American, a white male (usually the stereotypical buffoon and butt of jokes), two or more white females - at least one is gay or being ‘open’ to gay - the other a slut, and of course the ever-present gay blade.
“Obviously has never seen SNL’s Ambiguously Gay Duo.”
That’s right, and in addition to Ace & Gary they don’t seem aware of Fat Albert’s “Brown Hornet”...
Yep. And, IMO, that hatred stems from the fact that gays will never, ever, be that guy.
So, like typical liberals, since they'll never achieve that ideal, they'll work to make sure no one else achieves it, either.
Northstar has same sex attraction?
Usually, the hyphenated woman is married. The husband is most likely a metrosexual who knows his place in the “partnership”. There are likely to be no children from this pairing.
Real life heroes don’t need to join the military or police. How about just being good parents, neighbors and friends?
I recall an issue of Spider-Man (from JMS’s run, IIRC) where Aunt May found out his secret. While they were talking about it, she mentioned that she’d always had a feeling he was hiding something important, and was always awkward around girls....
The version I read is that it caused the creation of the "Aunt Harriet" character (despite the obvious difficulties caused by having somebody not in on the secret living at Wayne Manor).
I think it's more that the comics were more willing to hint at lesbianism than at male homosexuality, for obvious reasons (the target audience was teenage boys, for whom the idea of two chicks going at it is "HAWT!" but the idea of two dudes going at it is "EWWW!").
Not Gay!
Gay
Lesbians are not fantasy material.
That's some scary stuff.
Scrubbing brain...
5.56mm
I was thinking of The Ambiguously Gay Duo from Saturday Night Live (actually, technically, Dana Carvey’s short-lived TV show first, but more people probably know it from SNL).
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