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stopitsgingertime:

cancerously:

ihopericksantorum:

5/16: McArthur High School HazMat Situation
Students, Teachers Decontaminated After Breaking Out In Rash
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/mcarthur-high-school-contamination_n_1521764.html

5/19: No…

Oh come on, it’s Florida. That’s an average Tuesday over there

danyphantomzone:

I May Be Invisible But You’re Transparent: eddietg: sometimes daunting: Show Your Support for Marvel & DC’s LGBT…

deliciouskaek:

gailsimone:

eddietg:

sometimes daunting: Show Your Support for Marvel & DC’s LGBT characters and community!

starkexpos:

This isn’t likely to effect the cartoons based on the comics or comics designed for kids but rather the main line of comics, which are mostly bought by teens and twenty somethings. I think they can handle it. And lets say that homosexual characters did show up in cartoons, so what? It’s not going to be graphic scenes, there aren’t going to be erect penises everywhere. It would just be shown at the same degree as heterosexual relationships in cartoons, which mostly involves little more than characters saying they like each other, holding hands and maybe the occasional kiss. Is that really going to hurt little kids? They’ll probably ask questions about it for their parents to answer, but when has curiosity about the world been bad? Kids are supposed to ask questions, it’s how they learn. And it’s not even a difficult question to answer, sometimes two men can love each other or two women can love each other the same way a man and a woman can love each other, the only difficult part is trying to explain why you think that’s bad. 

Do you really think it will somehow help kids to hide gay people from them? They’re going to find out that gay people exist sooner or later, maybe if kids find out about gay people at a younger age they’ll be more accepting when they’re older. Gay people aren’t some sort of dirty secret to hide away, as if keeping secrets from your kids is a good idea, gay people don’t deserve to be pushed away and hidden away. They should not be ashamed of who they are. It’s the whole idea of denying gay people exist to kids that cause young gay people to be ostracized and separated from everyone else for being “different”. Kids will see gay people as different because, to the kids, they are because the kids weren’t introduced to the concept because their parents and groups like one million moms tried to hide it from them. 

It still baffles me, comics and cartoons can show criminals, who are generally bad people, committing actually crimes and no one complains. But people get all up in arms about comics including characters who are gay whom have done nothing wrong and who are every day people. 

The one million moms said “This is ridiculous! Why do adult gay men need comic superheroes as role models?”  As I’ve already said, this is the comic that are bought by teenagers. I’m pretty sure gay or closeted teenagers could really benefit from some role models there. 

At school I was bullied just for being a nerd. I can’t imagine how much worse it would have been if there were moronic, bigoted groups like one million moms were targeting me just because of one aspect of my life 

gailsimone:

I just kind of randomly looked at Dan DiDio’s Facebook page for a minute this morning.

Holy crap.

Okay, let me first get this out. Dan does care about lgbtq portrayals. It’s important to him, I’ve had a dozen conversations with him about it. Out writers like Marc Andreyko have been told, by Dan,…

There are few things in this world that will turn me into a giant squid of anger and people like this are definitely up there. The use of the “but some of my friends are gay so anything I say is fine” excuse is also up there too.  

The implication that a leading gay character can’t be a good role model is ridiculous , insulting and ridiculously insulting. 

I only think it shouldn’t be superman because I want it to go back to when he and Lois were married, I don’t think DC should have messed with that at all. But if DC did decide to that Superman is the new gay character I wouldn’t not boycott the company like some of those comments are suggesting or out right exclaiming.

My only real gripe with this change is that it seems a bit like DC are using the LGBTQ community for some kind of publicity stunt. That’s kind of why I think I might prefer if new characters were introduced who were gay, it wouldn’t seem like it was done just for “shock value” or publicity (this could be remedied with the character development being well done and believable not just a sudden and random switch) it would seems more like an honest, unabashed attempt at change (in my view). But this is very unlikely to happen as comic books nowadays are a world of tentpoles.