Everyway I look, there’s articles about Superman being gay, or all this subtext about him being gay.
WTF?
When the hëll did this happen? Are these people all stupid or something.
BATMAN is gay.
Superman was the one who was a symbol of totalitarianism. Batman was the one who was the gay icon, hanging out in his mansion, wearing lounging pajamas or a smoking jacket and having fun with Ðìçk. For a while there Bruce Wayne was so synonymous with homosexuality that the very name “Bruce” had gay connotations (“Match Game” always used “Bruce” to convey gay guys in their questions, and the network insisted Bruce Banner’s name be changed to David Banner for the Hulk TV series.)
But when “Batman Begins” came out, there was no discussion of whether Bruce Wayne was gay. I didn’t see any articles along those lines; certainly not in the mainstream media, which is where I’m seeing it everywhere. I guess when you dress in black leather and scare the crap out of people, you’re just too butch to have anyone question your sexuality. But poor Clark…suddenly he’s a gay icon.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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These characters (and to a degree the whole Star Wars movie) are based on an Akira Korisawa movie whose name I don’t recall. Something with Moon and a Princess.
“The Hidden Fortress”
an early treatment for Star Wars by Lucas is very clearly derivative of The Hidden Fortress. what finally made it to the screen only has a handful of shared elements plus an homage shot or two.
I read Werthams book a long time ago, and frankly only the more ridiculous parts stuck in my memory. Things like the artists allegdly drew “pictures within pictures for children who know how to look” where the anatomicaly correct drawing of a muscular naked male shoulder looks like a naked woman from the waist down. Lol. He is kind of right if you put the shadows the artist made out of perspective.
This is a book one has to read to believe it. Wertheims arrogance is staggering, his “I changed a industry” boasts – which sadly aren´t untrue – leaves a bad taste.
But you have to say that some of his remarks show a kind a sarcastic wit. Especially his comments in the picture-section where is shows his “evidence”.
A panel from a western where the hero is laying his girl-friend over his knee and gives her a good spanking is commented with “Erotic spanking in a western comic”
A panel from a crime comic decipting a gun-moll in lingerie is commented “An invitation to learning”
A panel showing a angry young woman in an revealing (for its time) outfit screaming “Lousy!! Filthy!! I´ll tear ya …” is commented with “Giving children an image of American womanhood”
I wonder what he would make of todays comics-output 🙂
Most things in the Movies and Television are gay now. They don’t have much of an imagination, so everythings gay. And they want us to be afraid to say we don’t care. ‘You’re parents are gay’ they might say, trying to be condenscending and clever and not achieving a modicum of either. I am bored with the movies and television. Just outright bored with reality shows, gay dramas, and whatever the (&$*# they have on.
Atleast comic books aren’t boring to me. Sure I hate what’s been going on in SPidey for the past six months (sorry, Peter), atleast it isn’t boring.
Man, am I sick of this gay stuff. I’m going out with the opposite sex… just like their parents did.
“Most things in the Movies and Television are gay now. They don’t have much of an imagination, so everythings gay. And they want us to be afraid to say we don’t care. ‘You’re parents are gay’ they might say, trying to be condenscending and clever and not achieving a modicum of either. I am bored with the movies and television. Just outright bored with reality shows, gay dramas, and whatever the (&$*# they have on.
Atleast comic books aren’t boring to me. Sure I hate what’s been going on in SPidey for the past six months (sorry, Peter), atleast it isn’t boring.”
I don’t understand.
“I’m going out with the opposite sex… just like their parents did.”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
It’s a valid life style choice.