The rain just keeps falling, and the forecast says it won't stop until Friday.
Anyone out there who's in good with God, could you ask Him to knock it the fuck off? Enough is enough already...
I was reading Peter David's blog and found an entry (and skimmed through the comments) about the whole "gay thing" with the new Superman movie.
In case you didn't know, there are some people who feel that the name of the movie should be Superman Comes Out rather than Superman Returns.
The primary reason this notion is floating around is because of an article that ran in The Advocate, and is largely based on the fact that, apparently, director Brian Singer himself is gay.
(I hadn't known that when I made the Richard Donner blowjob comment, by the way)
I think what lends fuel to the fire is just how gay those too-tight little maroon shorts on the costume are.
Well, that and the supposed homosexual subtext to the Clark/Lex relationship on Smallville.
(I can see how people might be able to impose that viewpoint onto the show, but I'm of the opinion that it's mostly in their heads. Clark isn't gay, he's just an idiot.)
Mainly, though, I think it stems from the desire that some people have to ascribe homosexual subtext to everything.
But whatever. If people want to think that he's gay, go ahead. Not only does it not make it so, it really doesn't matter because the person in the movie is decidedly not Superman.
Would I feel differently about Superman if he were gay? Probably not, but after nearly 70 years of established history that (mostly, despite what some of the old covers over at Superdickery suggest) that says otherwise, it seems unlikely that he is anyway.
That is, of course, unless he got exposed to Pink Kryptonite somewhere along the way...
(Note to non-comics fans: that last bit was inside joke that probably only Scott will get, and would take too long to explain.)
1 comment:
That's a fabulous tie you're wearing today, Jimmy!
Post a Comment