Neilalien has a short piece up responding to the “Doctor Strange is teh ghey” meme, which most recently reared it’s head at right-wing news-site National Review Online. An important point he makes is that Doc is actually quite the stud and lady-killer…but the model of virile masculinity he’s based on is very much out of time.
I’m not usually one for picking on the “scans_daily” crowd (it’s a real “fish/barrel/gun” proposition at the best of times), but I felt this thread was noteworthy. I’m honestly baffled by the number of people who seem to seriously think that this:
Is an actual forth-coming cover for the Wonder Woman series. Now, I don’t expect everyone on the internet to immediately recognize that picture as a Glen Hanson piece that’s at least a year old (NWS link, by the way), as I did, but come on! To even think for a moment that DC would ever seriously consider putting an image like that out on a cover shows a painful disconnect from the realities of the comics publishing world.
What’s worse are the responses that seem to think that, okay, because here’s an unabashed piece of super-hero themed beefcake, that excuses all the sexist and misogynist portrayals of women in super-hero comics. Uh, no.
When Newsarama forum posters get the joke you have to have fallen pretty far off the clue train to miss it…
Oh, what the hey, have a Wildcat picture, from Sensation Comics #36:
Yeah, yeah, it’s a cheap-shot, “fagged” just means “tired” in this context…but that’s actually a guy in drag Wildcat’s fighting. Subtext becomes text!
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