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Later she expressed that the new superman movie was dumber than her stupid tiktok posting cunt daughter.
If they are going to bitch that much might as well make Superman gay
Isn’t that what the pink kryptonite does?
Make a movie about his son, who’s canonically bi
I thought his only “son” was his clone.
And if it’s a clone, that means Superman is also bi.
No, son-son. Have one with Lois.
There was this bs controversy about someone in a comic book not being straight:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/entertainment/superman-comes-out-bisexual-jon-kent-cec
And if it’s a clone, that means Superman is also bi
…because of comic book logic on cloning? Or is there some genetic factor underlying a person’s sexuality? I’m guessing the former, but if the latter is true, it’s the first I’ve heard of it, so I’m curious!
If it’s not genetic, is that not implying it’s a “choice”?
Let me start with a clear statement - homosexuality is clearly NOT a choice! I can see how you got that from what I said though, so I apologize for phrasing my comment poorly!
I always figured it was biologically driven without much in the way of genetic components. It seems like homosexuality would be pretty tricky to pass on if it was just linked to a few genes, yet from people’s experiences and examples in nature it’s pretty clearly biological. I’m curious about the mechanism in general, and from your phrasing, thought you might know something I hadn’t picked up yet.
But who will be his bottom?
Me?
Great catch
They already had meltdowns because his son has a boyfriend, and being fake fans they confused him for his son.
Lets Keep going,
Hopefully they’ll get an aneurism
they got mad he is an “illegal space alien”
Johnathan Kent (Clark & Lóis son) is gay and has a boyfriend, he had a comic run as Superman while Clark was off-world, so he was a gay Superman (now is back to Superboy or just Johnathan)
I wish it actually had been super woke since it’s getting so much flak for literally just being Superman.
Fantastic movie though.
Really was a great movie. Telling who thought it was political, and who hated it.
I have the opposite opinion. I think it was woke in some pretty bold ways, but I just found it kinda boring. I like what they did with Superman, I like the baravia stuff, I like the whiny bitch boy Luther (most of the characters really), I think they did some neat things visually
It’s very comic-like, but to the point I struggle to feel anything. I thought it was ok, it had good moments, but it was very hard to suspend my disbelief. I don’t understand the rules of the world, at every moment Superman was infinitely strong but also constantly on the verge of death… They did the overpowered protagonist trope really badly IMO
But I did like the messaging. It’s very woke, and entirely unapologetic about it. I really liked how they showed it through story in a very heavy handed manner, but never did a preachy monologue… The message was not subtle at all, but it didn’t come off as condescending at any point
I think it was very bold and based, but as a movie… Meh
At this point anything that doesn’t literally praise
HitlerTrump is considered woke, so Superman was super woke.
The word woke is badge of honour at this point.
I always hated it because it’s in the past tense but used in the present tense in common parlance. It should be “awakened”, but I always preferred “aware” or “cognizant” if “woke” means to describe a state of understanding of the historical patterns of predation, conquest, and subjugation along with their underlying causes between groups of people (my opinion on its definition; not meant to be taken as gospel).
However, it doesn’t matter what I think; grammatically incorrect or not, language evolves relentlessly.
If you never break the language by being playful, the language will stagnate.
Human communication works better when people can creatively express themselves, regardless if is “correct”.
My opinion is that language can and does regress sometimes, or more specifically put, sometimes it gets harder to parse and determine meanings due to changes in common usage, irrespective of how it’s creatively expressed.
I think the lesson from that is to understand that the phenomenon is relentless and inescapable because it’s inherently a biological adaptation. It’s a fool’s errand to attempt to uphold linguistic purity, and thus, it isn’t a terribly important hill to die on, so to speak.
A synonym for ‘anti-woke’ is ignorant, so if that’s what people want to reveal themselves to be, it’s fine by me and that’s what I’ll call them.
If it helps, the word is about 80 years old and was coined by Black musicians in the 1930s, most notably blues legend Lead Belly, who would end concerts by telling people to “stay woke”.
So it’s not just a contrived way to say “awake”; it comes from natural speech.
Your definition is pretty much the same as the original definition. It means being aware of the existence of systemic racism, and for Black people especially to be aware of the threat that entails.
That definition hasn’t really changed. If someone says they’re “anti-woke”, assume they mean that they don’t want people to be aware of systemic racism. Not that they’re denying systemic racism exists, but that they want to protect it by reducing awareness of it. You’ll find that this definition makes perfect sense in that context, and they’re using “woke” to mean the same thing Lead Belly meant in 1938. They’re just against it.
I love “insults” that are really complements
You’re smart, haha nerd!
You’re capable of empathy, haha woke!Remember “social justice warrior”? Always made me think of Superman, incidentally
Always was.
The monkey scene really triggered them didn’t it?
That scene had our whole theater cracking up when I saw it on premiere day. So damn on point.
Superman … who is a literal alien immigrant … is probably immigrant? Really!?! No wonder the Superman writers dumped using “Truth, Justice, and the American way”
I never wanted a black superman so bad to see some heads explode
You mean like the one that already exists in DC? Calvin Ellis
They don’t want to be woke. Ergo, they wish to remain sleepy sheep.
They all know that Trump would deport superman ya? He literally is an illegal alien.
He can try. Superman isn’t a fan of Nazis.
Looks like a headline from a fictional news segment in The Boys
That’s the one that conservatives thought the villain was the good guy, right? I’m not sure if that’s a thing that really happened or just a satire of conservatives famously poor media literacy.
I’m not sure if that’s a thing that really happened
Yeah I think you’d be right to be suspicious. There’s at least as many people who pretend to think something dumb on the internet for the lulz, as there are people who actually believe it.
Trolling is a art form.
Hi! Nothing in your short post was offensive or stupid so I apologize for the wall of text I’m going to dump on you. And I’ll caveat what I’m about to say with “People find ways to be clever in all kinds of situations, so you’re even kind of right.” But…
I’m going to take a stand, on a very subjective topic, and say loudly; No, Trolling is not an art form. I hate this fucking take. Trolling takes all kinds of forms but its unifying element is to make other people ‘upset’. Sometimes mad. Sometimes sad. Sometimes confused. Sometimes depressed. You know what else does that? Existing at all in this fucking ghastly, unjust, terrible world. People start pissed off, and Trolls dog pile on and take credit. Trolling is art in the same way painting a freshly painted white wall in more white is fucking art- you accomplished fuck all.
Being kind is fucking art. More than art it’s fucking design, and craft and construction. Making someone happy. Hopeful. Joyous. Inspired. That takes fucking art. It takes hard work, sometimes sacrifice, and always intellect. And you have to do it in direct defiance of the whole fucking world.
You should probably know that ‘trolling is a art form’ is kind of a meme, because the statement itself has an obvious language error in it that people feel the need to correct.
In the show, the conservative population eats it up.
If conservatives IRL don’t get that The Boys is making fun of conservatives not understanding satire that’s a bonus.
They are it up IRL, too. Took them until like season 3 to actually realize they were the butt of the joke. The character names Stormfront (one of their right wing media companies) being a literal Nazi supersoldier didn’t tip them off
they call it woke, and they lost thier minds with GEN V series. because the jordan characther gender bends.
thats where kripke gets his material, from trump/ and his administration, he was inspired by trump. Homelander is a fictional representation of trumps behaviour.
right wingers got thier panties in a wad over GEN V characthers.
It’s Superman you shit for brains assholes. Being good to people and fighting wrong doing while preserving life and making things better for everyone is like his whole thing.
You’d think they’d be more hung up on the fact that Superman is, himself, an illegal alien.
The extreme right (aka, most of the Conservative Party and voters) would prefer to claim him because he’s attractive, strong, and white-presenting. So they’ll happily ignore Supes’ own illegal status in lieu of smearing the image to force the character in line via societal and social pressure for creators and writers to conform.
I’ve slowly distanced myself from political communities so now I see nonsense like this and wonder what’s going on out there.
The new Superman movie basically had the message of “Don’t be a shit person”; people are outraged.
lol, like every Superman media ever? Superman is super, man. He’s always stood up for the little guy, the underdog, the (dare I say) immigrant.
Every superman media save for the Snyder films.
Superman is literally a Christ figure. He’s basically a god, he loves humanity, and he constantly sacrifices himself to save us. Naturally, the religious right hates him.
hopefully superman 2’s message is “immigrants are better than racists”
I wanna hear that in a condescending satire waltz opera
lol, you could have said this at any point in the last 50 years and I would have believed you completely
Well you see, the movie’s message was “Don’t be a shit person, including to brown people”. You can probably tell what got conservatives so outraged.
Oh I can hear them now:
“Oh sure, and next you’ll be telling me to be nice to my dog and my kids, <slur>!”
Username checks out
James Gunn said Superman is an immigrant, which he of course is.
But I guess some people thought he was born in the USA.
He wasn’t even the first to call him that so publicly. This is an official WB documentary which got released with Superman Returns in 2006. I forgot when exactly but I’m pretty sure the narrator called him that within the first, maybe 20 minutes or so.
Well yeah, he is an alien character from another planet written by two Jewish immigrants, and often deals with issues about fitting into his adopted society. This is not a new revelation, it’s a founding cornerstone of his character.
Once upon a time the slogan used to be “truth, justice, and the American way”. Guess which part people wanted to keep, which parts they wanted to throw out the window.
It used to be Truth, Justice, and Peace. That is until the US went into marketing mode and recruited all superheroes into ‘the American way’ for WW2 propaganda.
You prompted me to look up an article, and it’s an interesting history. Apparently, “the American way” didn’t actually appear in a comic until 1991. It’s almost exclusively a phrase for radio and television.
You should also look up the images… Nothing like Batman and Robin on the front lines while still telling kids to buy war bonds in the ads.
In the comics, for a while, they tried to pretend he was by retconning his origin to have his ship give birth to him. Happened in the '80s so you can probably guess why they did it.
It was very weird. Luckily he’s back to his normal origin now.
The bad guys have a military to gun down brown unmarked families to take over a neighboring country.
Zionists: and I took that personally.
Really shows how the US truly is a backwards country.
He’s literally an alien from another planet. He was sent here because he lost his home planet. He’s always been an immigrant/refugee. Do these people have a single brain cell between all of them?
He also came here as a child.
He also fought Nazis. And turned the KKK into cartoon villains.
The story’s only been around 86 years. Relax.
Yeah but he’s nice. And their president told them that immigrants are rapists and killer
And eaters of dogs and cats.
No, they squished that brain cell when it caused them pain.
I say this a lot, but conservatives either have very poor media literacy, or are happily lying to further their agenda. Sometimes both.
I had one guy try to tell me he was probably legal.
Yeah I bet he routinely reports to the Kryptonian embassy…
Both, it’s both.
If the US ever wants to become a normal country it will have to ban fox news and all like it
No, news organizations shouldn’t be allowed to lie to you, yet fox news literally sued (and won) for the ability to do just this
At this point, fox news is far enough that it should be labelled a terrorist organization and anyone working there should be arrested and jailed for life for trying to destroy US democracy
They claimed they were just entertainment and no-one is stupid enough to believe them…
Yet they also claim to be a news channel. All they do is news, very onesidedly. I can’t understand why no one sued them into oblivion over this, it should have been easy.
Yet now we’re here
fox is too tame for the younger righties, its OAN AND NEWSMAX, plus listening to right wing grifters is thier preferred media now. fox is there to reinforce boomers, gen-xers and older milleneals.
It’s chilling just how accurate that is.
If you showed that image to people in the 80s and 90s, I guess essentially pre-9/11 america, when I was young and taught america was called “the melting pot,” it would feel like a joke rather than a warning.
America has never been a melting pot. Every new group of immigrants to this country have been horribly abused and hate crimed. Not just brown people either.
Yeah we’re funny like that. The world’s richest nation which consists solely of immigrants and stolen resources, and everybody always wants to pull the ladder up behind them.
You aren’t wrong about the abuse, but that doesn’t make it any less a cultural melting pot for those who, you know, don’t partake in hate crime or are themselves immigrants. Believing such has been taken or never existed only assures that they will in fact take that from us, as we do not have something which to continue fending for.
Finally some good commentary.
yup often segregated from white areas, through GENTRIFICATION, usually the first steps and signs of gentrification is coffee shops. its not like segregation of missisipi blacks from whites.
