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Salon Bemoans Spider-Man, Movie Superheroes Being 'Straight, White Men'
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| April 29, 2014
| Matthew Balan
Posted on 04/29/2014 9:40:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Everything is about sex. Everything.
It’s sodomi and Gomorrah all over again.
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posted on
04/30/2014 2:55:57 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Bratch
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.
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posted on
04/30/2014 3:12:29 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Rastus
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.”
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posted on
04/30/2014 3:16:31 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If they put a pervert in a movie, I won’t see it. As for skin color, I don’t care.
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posted on
04/30/2014 3:25:08 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obviously has never seen SNL’s Ambiguously Gay Duo.
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posted on
04/30/2014 3:41:41 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: Pox
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.
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posted on
04/30/2014 3:44:55 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: Gaffer
“Obviously has never seen SNLs Ambiguously Gay Duo.”
That’s right, and in addition to Ace & Gary they don’t seem aware of Fat Albert’s “Brown Hornet”...
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posted on
04/30/2014 4:20:33 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, we have a black, gay pResident, so I guess the narrative has to change from when Ronald Reagan was in office.
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posted on
04/30/2014 5:33:16 AM PDT
by
Fear The People
(When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Foremost the hatred of the average straight guy. You know the guy that was head of the family, worked for a living, loved women who were women and liked being women, and who built this country with his hands and his progeny.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.
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posted on
04/30/2014 5:47:10 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Northstar has same sex attraction?
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posted on
04/30/2014 6:52:01 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: kiryandil
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.
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posted on
04/30/2014 6:54:38 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: zencycler
Real life heroes don’t need to join the military or police. How about just being good parents, neighbors and friends?
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posted on
04/30/2014 6:56:59 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: BradyLS
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....
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
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. 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).
To: Olog-hai
Funny enough, it was the supervillians that they started to make that way inclined. Mystique (X-Men villain) was one of the first ones they did that with; her and Destiny, apparently. 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!").
To: Olog-hai
Funny enough, it was the supervillians that they started to make that way inclined. Mystique (X-Men villain) was one of the first ones Not Gay!
Gay
Lesbians are not fantasy material.
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:02:28 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: hattend
How ya doing?
That's some scary stuff.
Scrubbing brain...
5.56mm
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:04:25 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:05:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: 1010RD
My point wasn't to define who is or is not a hero - it was to show how trite the folks at Salon were being by trying to make an issue about fictional super heroes being mostly white, male and hetero.
So naturally, the most apt comparison is to those who put their lives at risk in real life in the fight against evil, and let's see if Salon wants to address this. I'm simply not going to let Salon get away with crying about the disproportionate male-whiteness of crime fighters (fictional or not) while at the same time engaging in traditional liberal policies (such as keeping ROTC off college campuses) that effectively creates a divide between tehse crimefighers and their liberal constituencies, and therefore Salon has a hand in keeping women, minorities and gays from being more adequately represented.
To: Bratch
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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posted on
04/30/2014 3:02:01 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("ARMAGEDDON!!!" *BOOM!* "And the rodents' red glare...gerbils bursting in air...")
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