Stop Blowing My Mind!

[funkygibbing]

Registered simply to suggest that Bob, you need to get an editor, or visit the apostrophe protection society and discover the difference between it's and its.

www.apostrophe.org.uk

 

[Shagdawg]

I know that part rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, but this article [http://nerdgirlpinups.com/article/129] gives it some perspective (it did for me, anyway). In short: it's not that being gay is "perverted stuff", it's using shameless lipstick lesbian exploitation to pander to horny old farts that is.

I get that he was probably taken out of context, but the fact that it's on his off-the-cuff "list" AT ALL doesn't say nice things about where his head is at in regards to the subject either way. If nothing else, it implies that his "default reaction" to lesbianism is to regard it as a fetish for straight men rather than as a legitimate lifestyle for millions of actual women.

Yes, fine, even the most well-intentioned stories about gay women in comics are either created or executed with at least ONE eye on a straight male audience that wants to see such-and-such hot heroines "with eachother;" but I don't see how that necessarily devalues it automatically as a concept. Hell, not for nothing but SURELY there are gay women reading comics who appreciate such things on much the same level, no? When deny them the chance to see such stories, and writers to write them, because it's also going to be enjoyed by pervy dweebs?

Seems like the point he was making was the intent of the writers is not to create a genuine gay or lesbian story but rather to use a character "coming out" as either shock value to be "edgy" or for the titillation of 45 year old pervs. I don't think he's in the wrong head space at all, and frankly I think its insulting to insinuate he's somehow homophobic for having this viewpoint.

 

[captain underpants]

You know, when I think of comics, the word 'intelligent' isn't the first to spring to mind. Don't get me wrong, I like comics and movies based off them, but for the action and sheer ridiculousness, not because they make me think.

Personally, I'd rather see more movies like 'Gattaca' or 'Moon' than yet another Beefcake in Tights, but the 'geeks' love them some explosions.

Also, this whole 'geek culture' thing is nothing more than the same cliqueish snobbery that has rankled me since high school. Get the fuck over yourselves.