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Superman is bisexual now!

  • 12-10-2021 08:50AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



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  • #2
    minikin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭minikin


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



  • #3
    Sonics2k
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    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?



  • #4
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,663 ✭✭✭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.



  • #5
    Sonics2k
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007626#Comment_118007626

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



  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 127 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


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



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  • #7
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,981 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #8
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 7,085 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #9
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



  • #11
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007647#Comment_118007647

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



  • #13
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭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.



  • #14
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #15
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,743 ✭✭✭✭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?



  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,222 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?



  • #17
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


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

    Or just stop looking at things that upset you.



  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,222 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.



  • #19
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



  • #20
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



  • #21
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,088 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    simply put - More woke rubbish



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  • #22
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,377 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #23
    [Deleted User]
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    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.



  • #24
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    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.



  • #25
    Barna77
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    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)



  • #26
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118007706#Comment_118007706

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



  • #27
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,947 ✭✭✭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.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #28
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭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."



  • #29
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,389 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #30
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,350 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    how can we be sure its a he?



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  • #31
    ohnonotgmail
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    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.



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