One Million Moms Fights Gay Superheroes

[ReiverCorrupter]

Well, like I said, this is if they are actually trying to be socially relevant and not just trying to superficially appease the masses. But I can't really blame you for not wanting your comic books to try to be socially complex...

They are just comic books after all.[/flameshield]

Ahhh XD ha ha I guess just what is socially relevant to you is different to me. I just like stories with strong characters who have proper motivations. The problem with the whole homophobia stories line is there is always a clear cut villain who is a villain just because they are a dick and no real reason besides that which strikes me as shallow story telling and characters. People don't do things for no reason and to have people hate for no reason means your neglecting to bother to understand them and for characters your being to lazy to develop them. I guess I also dislike the whole being gay is scary story for the same reason I generally don't like the racism stories which is because it has been done a billion times.

Well, yeah, if you're just going to be heavy handed about it then it's not only going to be boring, but it'll come off as preachy. I see where you're coming though, most people won't really accept any possible relatability in the portrayal of prejudiced characters. They must, by necessity, be mustache-twirling villains or the person who wrote the story must be a bigot themselves. Never mind that bigotry or unconscious prejudices are products of people's upbringing, over which they have little control. Some people won't even acknowledge the existence of unconscious biases. According to them, if you have any sort of bias, then you must have an overt hatred.

I fear that progressivism is slowly devolving into its own form of fanaticism, where people with prejudices are no longer viewed as unenlightened people who need to hear the truth, but as unrepentant monsters who should be fired from their jobs and denied the ability to spread their filth. Sadly most ideological movements eventually suffer this fate. Communism is a particularly poignant example.

 

[Jadak]

When did "family" become a euphemism for "uptight conservative killjoys"?

Early 00's

More like 1900's...

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

This picture posted by George Takei says what I am thinking best

 

[Averant]

Honestly, can't we all come to an agreement? We agree to let them be homophobes, they agree to stop posting this idiocy because we already know what they think about it. Seriously, it's getting redundant by this point.

OMM: WE HATE TEH GAYS!!!1!

Me: That's nice. Why is this news again?


CAPTCHA: seven ate nine

Son of a *****, it's grasping the concept of rudimentary humor. It's proceeding into the AI stage.

 

[mooncalf]

One million moms can raise one or two or three million kids any way they damn well please. As for the other 6.99 billion people on earth, how about we let them make their own choices based on their presuppositions.

 

[DeltaEdge]

The answer to this is simple. If you don't want your kids seeing gay super heroes, then don't let them read comic books or watch tv or play video games with gay super heroes! Or better yet, just lock them in a white room with only the approved viewing material such as bibles and the Passion of the Christ. Your kids will certainly be more well-rounded for it and know how to handle close encounters of the gay kind without being dragged into the bedroom and being raped. That's what all gay people do right? Drag other men into the bedroom and rape them upon sight regardless of whether or not they find them attractive? Because being gay automatically makes you a sex-crazed maniac that is eager to screw anything of the same gender that breathes. Seriously, these people are so terrible. Going by their standards, they should remove all violence from from these cartoons? They seem to be forgetting the God looks down on violence just as much as he does homosexuality. You're basically saying to your kids, even though the bible says not to be violent, (and it also says not to idolize anyone other than God), you can go ahead and blatantly ignore that and idolize a hero who solves his problems with violence... so long as he isn't gay. After all, we can't have you disobeying the bible and "having the gay" right?

 

[Erttheking]

1,000,000 conservative juggerslags.

6,900,000,000 other people who couldn't give two shits.

Except there aren't 1,000,000 of them, their name is misleading. It's closer to 40,000

 

[pretzil]

They are right to be alarmed, for years superheroes have had girlfriends, and just look at all the comic book readers out there with girlfriends...

Oh wait...

 

[cainx10a]

It's Superman. And he's into the Batman who's into Aquaman. Here you go, love triangle. Make it happen, and add japanese idols singing in the background as well.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

any one who puts one million in there group name better have latest or close one million members. if they don't they are instantly ass holes in my book for falsely advertising (i belive they have about 40000 members) and that is before they open their mouth

once they open their mouth it is just this them acting irrationality and full of ignorance while saying
essentially family values stuff. I have no interest in speaking about "one million" moms or group related to them any more then that. It is not worth any more of my time

i just might buy a comic book just to spite them.

that is quite moving

 

[justnotcricket]

It never ceases to amaze me how much free time these people seem to devote to having 'the crazy'. I'm actually surprised they are worried about whether a superhero is gay or not - I would have thought they'd be campaigning against superheroes fullstop for, I dunno, being graven images that their kids worship in place of God or something.

Note: by 'these people' I specifically refer to the 'One Million Moms' type of conservative fanatic, not religious people in general.

 

[Carbonyl]

I'm gonna guess right now, it'll be Ted Kord and Booster Gold, unless they've already come out with that one (I don't think they have, though). My head-cannon says those two have been together for years... or at least they were until Ted... yeah.

 

[Virgilthepagan]

Er, just as an aside, I'm not exactly pleased with DC's decision here. It's got little and less to do with OMM, and more to do with the idea that DC's going to take an established character and spin them on their head to keep pace with Marvel. At least Northstar was consistent and evolved as a character to this point (more or less, it's still comics). That said, I don't know which one, and they could surprise me and handle the shift well.

As to OMM? Great to see that any time a company needs some free publicity and mild controversy, the group's ready and waiting in the wings for their trolling session.

 

[Notsomuch]

I hope it's Martian Man-Hunter. My rational is that once the joke is made a reality it will stop being made.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Why do adult gay men need a superhero role-model? Everyone needs a superhero role-model! Everyone needs a hero!

I think this group needs to change its name to reflect its conservative belief base. I know moms that are perfectly okay gay people and aren't homophobes and this group seems to imply that such women do not exist. Ah well. Ironically stunts like this only raise awareness and make the comic more popular overall, thus it achieves the opposite of its goal.

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

*Shakes head and walks away*

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

Er, just as an aside, I'm not exactly pleased with DC's decision here. It's got little and less to do with OMM, and more to do with the idea that DC's going to take an established character and spin them on their head to keep pace with Marvel. At least Northstar was consistent and evolved as a character to this point (more or less, it's still comics). That said, I don't know which one, and they could surprise me and handle the shift well.

As to OMM? Great to see that any time a company needs some free publicity and mild controversy, the group's ready and waiting in the wings for their trolling session.

At least SOMEONE else here is sane enough to not hop on the bandwagon here and defend DC for this. Sure OMM is retarded, but that doesn't make DC noble in any way. They are cashing in on what is literally the "gay superhero" scheme. It will sell... regardless of how good or bad it turns out.

THAT's why they are doing it.

They are 0% activist, and 100% NEED YOUR MONEY... BADLY.