Superman is bisexual now!

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/1012/1253134-superman-comes-out-as-bisexual-in-new-comic/

Brave new direction apparently.

I dunno who this is aimed at, but it seems like a desperate attempt to pander to the alphabet community. Most people I know who happen not to be straight are embarrassed by such tokenism.

Are there people out there that now feel empowered that a male superhero fancies men?

*and before the ususal "oh you are triggered" brigade come in, I'm not "triggered" at all. I just don't see why its newsworthy.

minikin

If it’s not newsworthy what makes it thread-worthy?

Sonics2k

1/ It's Jon Kent, not Clark. Before people start jumping into panic mode about changing characters.

2/ Who gives a ****.

3/ Who cares if a character is Bi.

4/ If you don't see it as newsworthy, why post a thread about it?

timmyntc

Behold post-modernism where nothing is or isnt. Where you should take existing truths and distort them and then give a big cheer about how brave you are for doing it.

Who cares if you genderswap characters in direct contravention of the original authors story? Who cares about the original authors at all anymore? Its all about doing something brave and different and who cares how many people's works you trample on to get your stunning and brave piece out.

Sonics2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007626#Comment_118007626

Props on not reading the article at all. Well done.

The strangest preference in comics is Judge Dredd’s apparent asexuality.

Penn

Superboy is Bi, and Tim Drake (one of the Robins) also recently came out as bi.

Which means we could end up with a future where the new Superman and Batman f*ck each other.

Personally I can't wait. I'd read that.

Sheep Shagger

Another example of RTE going down the trash route, aren't there enough websites that do that already?

Dee and her cronies really need to understand what public service broadcasting really is, a hint, it isn't this.

pjohnson

Maybe calm down and READ the article.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007626#Comment_118007626

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058212721/superman-is-bisexual-now

Embarrassing.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007616#Comment_118007616

The fact that RTE have it on it's home page was worth a conversation I thought.

Lots of people are bisexual, yet they’re represented almost nowhere and when they were it was often negative, tragic or highly judgmental. The same applies to the entirety of the LGBTQ+ percentage of the human population.

It’s because of the feckin curtain twitching attitudes like the ones that start threads like these that loads of people are still hiding in the shadows.

It’s not the 1950s or the 1990s for that matter and it’s long overdue. You are going to see more LGBTQ+ themes because it’s no longer a taboo to write them. That’s how they’re broken and it’s a sign of things moving on.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007647#Comment_118007647

I agree. It is embarrassing that RTE have it on their home page.

El Tarangu

Superman is an alien from the planet Krypton, so knocking boots with Lois Lane was already inter-galactic bestiality, so ploughing human lads as well does not seem like that much of a big step.

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007660#Comment_118007660

No its the lack of ability an "adult" has to read past a headline.

But you and the usuals will be upset so thats a clickbait win for RTE.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058212721/superman-is-bisexual-now

If you know people who are embarrassed by the storylines in superhero comic books, maybe it's time to look for some new friends? Like, grown-ups?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007658#Comment_118007658

Really? You think it's long overdue that superheroes are bisexual and you think it is breaking taboos?

Do you really think that non-straight people are under represented in entertainment or media?

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007668#Comment_118007668

Or just stop looking at things that upset you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007668#Comment_118007668

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. They are embarrassed by articles describing a character being bisexual as a brave new direction.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007667#Comment_118007667

I'm not upset. I thought it was worth a conversation. I may have been wrong. It seems that you and your usuals are already resorting to claiming people are upset.

Yes. Have a look across all of media sometime. They’re only beginning to be represented in anything like a normal or positive way in the last very short period of time.

It’s not very long ago a gay kiss (often not much more than a peck on the cheek) on a soap opera rocked various nations.

It’s also not very long ago that gay characters were an object of extreme stereotyping and/or mockery in media representation.

Beechwoodspark

simply put - More woke rubbish

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007688#Comment_118007688

Well you didnt have time to read the actual article so you seemed upset in your haste to post it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007626#Comment_118007626

Couldn't give a hoot about comic book characters, but I am not sure that is a meaningful characterization of postmodernism. As gestures go, it's more along the lines of Nietzschean transvaluation of values, or some quantum-based metaphysics or some Heraclitean hand-waving. Applied properly, postmodernism provides the tools that enable you to deconstruct. Posdtmodernism is complete bollox and entirely unecessary of course, since modernism, properly applied, already possesses the ability to critique, deconstruct, and improve itself, ultimately revealing postmodernism to be nothing more than modernist ratiocentric criticality dressed up as a novel insight.

tl;dr I don't think this story has anything to do with philosophy at all and if it does, I am not sure that postmodernism is the hero/villain of the piece.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007694#Comment_118007694

I'm surprised to hear that. I wouldn't have thought that there was underrepresentation at all.

I agree, not too long ago there certainly was few accurate representations and I remember the scandal of the lesbian kiss on Brookside.

Thankfully, we are miles apart from that now and a whole generation of people have not had to grow up in a society like that.

Barna77

As long as they write a sex scene with Henry Cavill and another man in a future Superman movie, fine with me.

Then he can go back to Lois Lane (if he wants to)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007706#Comment_118007706

What part of the article do you think I have not read?

Feisar

I don't care where he drops a load but this crap is not on:

DC Comics said that following a scene where Superman "mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone that he can", Jay is "there to care for the Man of Steel".

Whatever about mentally but physically burning out!?!? He's fuppin' Superman, not averageman.

Conall Cernach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007636#Comment_118007636

Dredd was genetically engineered, raised and indoctrinated from birth into being the living embodiment of the Law. Justice Department forbids judges developing personal relationships and expels them. Having seen the fates of Galen DeMarco, Blanche Tatum, his own brother Rico etc. it is hardly any wonder he remains "Old Stoney Face."

Zaph

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007642#Comment_118007642

Well I first saw the story on the BBC news website, so it seems that other public service broadcasters deem it newsworthy too. There are lots of stories that appear on the RTE and BBC news websites that don't interest me or that I don't deem particularly newsworthy, but they probably are to someone. In this case the bi community are getting to see themselves represented in a major popular culture medium, so I'm sure from their point of view this is a newsworthy event. You can always do what I do if I see a story that I've no interest in, I skip to the next one that does interest me. It's certainly not something to get all worked up over on a site like this.

Wanderer78

how can we be sure its a he?

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007714#Comment_118007714

that a comic portraying a character as bisexual is front page news would suggest we have a long way to go.