Gay is not a mutant ability

I have become increasingly dejected by the liberal hijacking of my favorite comic books.

Stan "More Obsolete than a Commodore-64" Lee, who created many of the comics I grew up loving (but has seen them all evolve away from his cute little hokey nerd-cum-heroes toward characters with more dimension), in a desperate attempt to claim some relevancy, has recently gone on record talking about how his comics were a metaphor for civil rights. I doubt it. The X-men did take up such a mantle, but I suspect it was other writers (with significantly more depth than he) who interjected the themes of equality versus the resistance to social change. But regardless, the undertones served the comics relatively well and added a dimension to them which has helped grow the median age and the diversity of the readership.

Unfortunately, this has also served as a wedge for something awful. It always irks me when homosexuals try to claim kinship to oppressed races or gender. Mental deviancy regarding sexual tendencies is decidedly different than race or gender. But it is convenient for agenda-pushing homos to ride the coat-tails of legitimate social movements by convincing soccer moms that one should equate social disgust towards moral degeneracy with racism and sexism. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that since half of our society seems to be blindly accepting this premise, the art school drop-outs who write comics should as well. But it still depresses me. I remember listening to an interview where the director for X-Men 2 explained that the movie was a metaphor for society's repression of homosexuality. Hence the ghey-intensive casting. Iceman's scene telling his parents he is a mutant was supposed to parallel "coming-out" to mommy and daddy. It was so forced that they actually asked him if he tried "not being a mutant". Subtle.

Now DC has raced to join the fray. The industry giant announced two weeks ago that they are resurrecting the Batwoman character as a lipstick lesbian (because they exist). Marvel has been running a series where the evil conservative government is making superheroes register as weapons of mass destruction:kudos to whatever commie 10th grade level writer came up with that one... aren't you the little Orwell (I am curious though, what the Marvel writer's position is on Gun Control). So Spiderman will be "outing" himself to the press, saying "I'm proud of who I am, and I'm here right now to prove it." You see, gheys have also recently discovered that having an alter-ego can be likened to being in the closet. Oh how terribly witty.

To top it all off, last week The Advocate (The Homoqueer Tribune) ran an article about how Superman is a gay allegory because Clark Kent is Superman's "beard". I guess I am going to have to do with comics what I have done with movies. Be content to view old ones from my childhood before they were corrupted.

Maybe when hetro males stop buying comics someone will figure it out. Probably not though, because Hollywood hasn't figured it out regarding movies. They think the hetro males didn't check out Brokeback Mountain because of availability of digital alternatives skewing year-over-year theater gross comparisons. There are none so blind as they who will not see.