Comments on: Because The Times Needs To Fill Column Inches

By: drpedro

drpedro — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:06:37 +0000

One of my best friends is gay…..

(and conservative too by the way…)

Better end this string, I have a feeling this conversation is making Ollie a little…eh….uncomfortable…..

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:06:58 +0000

What does it say about the homosexual rights movement that after years of positing that some long dead historical figures might have been homosexual (think Richard the Lion Heart), now some are speculating that a fictional character might be homosexual?

It’s fiction, people! The authors can write it any damned way they want, in the very next issue, and change it again in the following one.

By: doug r

doug r — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:06:35 +0000

That was a brilliant essay by Niven-
One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy’s puberty.

By: rcauthen

rcauthen — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:06:17 +0000

Oliver - Actually, Superman can't do anything about it whether he's gay or straight. See Larry Niven's article, "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex."

By: BD

BD — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:06:44 +0000

If I may borrow a pedro tactic…

“Have you ever SPOKEN to a gay person?”

By: cypher

cypher — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:06:11 +0000

So he’s a gay Jew, that’s fine.

By: cypher

cypher — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:06:09 +0000

BTW, a few years ago there was substantial speculation that Lewis and Clark were gay.... And not that it will answer any questions, but Larry Niven's Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is a hilarious essay about Superman's problems with women.

By: Big Gay Al

Big Gay Al — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:58 +0000

Feh. Too muscle bound for me. Never was into those jock types…all brawn no brain.

By: Fuming Mucker

Fuming Mucker — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:49 +0000

Nevertheless, it does allows us to consider why Superman is a dick (again!).

By: Matthew Sturges

Matthew Sturges — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:46 +0000

In the earlier comics especially, Superman was oddly indifferent to Lois’s constant pleading to become his wife–a desire she attempted to fulfill in nearly every issue. In his spoken asides, he’d say something like, “Lois can never know that I, Superman, can never marry–it would be too dangerous for my wife!” Beyond that, though, he just didn’t seem that interested. In fact, he sometimes went out of his way to perpetrate elaborate hoaxes on Lois just to get the idea out of her head.

So maybe they’ve got something there. But the modern age Supes is certainly hetero enough. Hey, maybe he’s one of those gay icons, like Cher or Tammy Faye Baker. You don’t have to be gay to be a gay icon.

By: BD

BD — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:33 +0000

Or it could also be a piggyback on the overly sensationalized story that this new Batwoman character is going to be a lesbian.

As if there haven’t been gay characters in comics before now. Nobody in the mainstream press, it seems, read Warren Ellis’ excellent The Authority.

By: Fuming Mucker

Fuming Mucker — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:24 +0000

Even this 45-year-old, married-23-years, father-of-two-now-adult-boys can recognize that Superman (by definition) is a superb example of fitness and looks good in a blue bodysuit.

A parallel article might cover: people who wear Hawaiian shirts like Superman. Does this mean Superman or Clark Kent wears Hawaiian shirts? Will this speculation put off people who wear pull-overs with Raglan sleeves who might want to see the movie?

Sometimes I just wish the newspaper had blank pages, y'know?

By: JSA

JSA — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:15 +0000

“You don t have to be gay to be a gay icon.” That seemed to be the theme of the article to me, Superman’s appeal to gays, not that he was gay. On the other hand, is there such a thing as pink krptonite (sorry)?

By: drpedro

drpedro — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:10 +0000

The staff at the “advocate” seems to know….and after all there is that well known super-power “gaydar”….

By: drpedro

drpedro — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:06:01 +0000

I think it had more to do with the fact that the gay magazine “the advocate” came out with a cover story saying “Superman Gay”…

Not that there is anything wrong with that….