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Robin swings both ways
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<blockquote data-quote="Low Class Yuppie" data-source="post: 16654129" data-attributes="member: 130505"><p>RDJ came across as a cringey reddit fedora atheist in his post, but I did like his point about making interesting new characters to represent different groups instead of just rewriting the history of an established superhero. At the end of the day, though, I can't really be bothered to care. Comic books are infantile, escapist power fantasies to begin with. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that fringe groups/social outcast types gravitate to the medium. I certainly did as a kid, for those same reasons.</p><p></p><p>What's really weird to me, though, is this funky cultural paradigm shift, in which traditional outcasts - nerds, LGBT, etc. - have the support of every major corporation, political power, and acceptance of the general populace, yet still act as if they're underdogs.</p><p></p><p>DC rebooted their whole line with "New Frontier" earlier this year. The introductory issue has short stories about all of the DC Universe characters, and the original Green Lantern came out as gay. Living a triple life as a regular dude/secret superhero/secret homeaux in the 1940s could be an interesting story, but I don't really feel like spending the cash to read it. I'd hate to get invested in a story only to find out that it's yet another cynical cash grab with surface level pandering. Half the shit I see geared towards minority groups would straight-up offend me if I was in the target group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Low Class Yuppie, post: 16654129, member: 130505"] RDJ came across as a cringey reddit fedora atheist in his post, but I did like his point about making interesting new characters to represent different groups instead of just rewriting the history of an established superhero. At the end of the day, though, I can't really be bothered to care. Comic books are infantile, escapist power fantasies to begin with. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that fringe groups/social outcast types gravitate to the medium. I certainly did as a kid, for those same reasons. What's really weird to me, though, is this funky cultural paradigm shift, in which traditional outcasts - nerds, LGBT, etc. - have the support of every major corporation, political power, and acceptance of the general populace, yet still act as if they're underdogs. DC rebooted their whole line with "New Frontier" earlier this year. The introductory issue has short stories about all of the DC Universe characters, and the original Green Lantern came out as gay. Living a triple life as a regular dude/secret superhero/secret homeaux in the 1940s could be an interesting story, but I don't really feel like spending the cash to read it. I'd hate to get invested in a story only to find out that it's yet another cynical cash grab with surface level pandering. Half the shit I see geared towards minority groups would straight-up offend me if I was in the target group. [/QUOTE]
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