So.....Superman is gay now. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58879161 DC Comics reveal that latest Superman character is bisexual
We'll see how mad this turns out to be. In the past, when the comics introduced black and female superheroes, a lot of people complained. Now Black Panther and Wonder Woman are comic book staples.
I'm not a comic book nerd & almost all the superhero movies are trash. But what would bi Superman's power be?
To be clear, that's not Clark Kent / Kal-El, the best known Superman. That's his son Jon Kent, who is currently Superman in the comics. It's a publicity stunt - something that has happened in comics before - remember when Superman died, and like how professional wrestling used to claim they were real, DC comics was all "no, he's dead for real, he's not coming back" and then like a year later he came back? That's going to happen here - at some point in the not-too-distant future, Jon Kent will stop being Superman and Clark Kent will come back to the role, and everyone who's bothered by a fictional character being bi can breathe a big sigh of relief because Superman once again only humps ladies.
one of the most grating "woke" things these days is hearing and seeing references to "pregnant people". ffs ... if you are carrying human offspring, you're a woman.
It doesn't stop there. Muppets are insensitive, Disney the same. Now James Bond exhibits toxic masculinity. The list goes on and on. And people wonder why the woke movement is getting backlash. Obviously these aren't serious offenses, but the underlying mentality/principle of this (albeit extreme) crowd, has gotten rediculous. And god forbid you make light of it, there is hell to pay! The whole thing has become a farce.
I have my quarrels with college progressives, but I don't see the problem here. Nobody is complaining. Nobody is boycotting. Nobody is telling other people how bad they are. This is a positive, creative step of writing a character. It is not being a nag.
If you have time to march off to the culture war over a cartoon, I think your life is probably a lot better than you've led yourself to believe it is, which means it's probably a good idea to spend less time online no matter what side you're on.
That's a good quote for politics too. In 1984, inflation was 4% and unemployment was 7%, and Ronnie won re-election in a landslide. Now inflation is 3.5% (trailing 12 months), unemployment is 4.8%, and it's whine whine whine, complain complain complain, bad polls for the current President, just as bad polls for the previous President.
I think you're right. The right wing has had a discontent factory churning out agtating news stories since Limbaugh got syndicated and Fox News went on the air in the 90s. Of course, the left-leaning media has more recently figured out how to generate clicks and retweets and the like, too. They just haven't been at it as long.
A trans man is a person who was assigned female at birth (so, has a vagina, uterus, ovaries, etc.) but identifies as a man. Often, but not always, a trans man will take efforts to appear more "masculine" because he feels like a man and wants others to treat him like they would any other man, so he might take hormone replacement therapy, grow a beard, lift weights to grow bigger muscles, wear clothing that is considered masculine by society at large, etc. Depending on his level of gender dysphoria, he may have top and/or bottom surgery (to remove breasts/turn a hole into a pole, to be crude). He is "biologically female" and could become pregnant (unless he has had bottom surgery, and if he is taking hormones, he'd need to stop temporarily), but he's still a man. Biological sex: Male, Female, Intersex Gender: Man, Woman, Non-binary Your biological sex is determined by your chromosomes and genitals (and even then, it's a bit more complicated than that), but your gender is a label you apply to yourself and have others apply to you that is determined by a million other factors. You see a man walking down the street and apply "man" to him because of the way he looks and dresses and talks and acts, not because you saw his dick and looked at his cells under a microscope to confirm he has a Y-chromosome. Many trans men never want to become pregnant because it increases their dysphoria. Some just don't want kids. Some adopt. If they want to have their own biological children, they would have to go through the process of having eggs extracted and find a surrogate, which is difficult and very expensive. Some trans men who want to have their own biological children decide it is easier and much, much cheaper to just deal with going off their hormones for a year or two and get pregnant the old fashioned way.
If I were bi, I might look at this Superman story arc and think, "Hey, I'm represented in popular culture!" instead of thinking it's part of "woke culture." It'd just be culture. The question is if I would see everything else as not culture because it wasn't me. I don't imagine that would be the case, just that I would wish to see people like me included. Do we have a preponderance of bi comics characters now or something? Or is this a story precisely because it is so unique?
I think "pregnant people" is example #1 of why many (many!) people scoff at anything remotely "woke" and thereby contribute to the erosion of its well-intended objectives. in this case, efforts to avoid offending a tiny portion of the population is starting to twist language in ways that will slowly make it inoperative. (before you ask: I do feel the same way about "he/she/they".) do you think it's a good thing to use "pregnant people"? does it not in a subtle way take away from women their fundamental essence (regardless of their childbearing decisions)? or as my ultra-feminist wife would say "ffs, is there literally NOTHING that men won't take away from women?".
This is also taking time away from posts on various tomato sauce, cheese and cooked dough combinations that some might call pizza.