"Holy Modernity, Batman! I'm Bisexual!?" - they're coming for your characters - Kotaku In Action 2

"Holy Modernity, Batman! I'm Bisexual!?" - they're coming for your characters (media.communities.win)

posted 3 years ago by KonyHawk_ProSlaver 3 years ago by KonyHawk_ProSlaver +39 / -0

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– KonyHawk_ProSlaver [S] 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

Batman’s beloved boy wonder sidekick, Robin, has come out as bisexual in a recent issue for DC Comics, a reveal that follows an ongoing trend throughout the comic book world.

“The story goes … Robin had a ‘lightbulb moment’ while fighting side-by-side with Bernard. After coming to his rescue as Robin, Tim later hits up Bernard’s pad, and you can see the anticipation’s building ’cause he hypes himself up, saying … ‘It’s OK, Tim. You got this.'”

Just as Bernard opens the door to ask Tim on a date, Tim abruptly says, “I’m really glad you got home okay. I was relieved. And I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, about that night. And I — I don’t know what it meant to me. Not yet. But I’d like to figure it out.”

“I was hoping you would. Tim Drake … do you want to go on a date with me?” Bernard asks.

The issue ends as Robin says yes, leaving the reader on a cliffhanger until the next installment. Members of the LGBTQ community celebrated the reveal on social media.

"This tweet made it in a few articles out there so I just wanted to say that all of your favorite characters are queer and they WILL be taken from you, and there's nothing you can do about it 🥴"

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– CletustheElitist 12 points 3 years ago +17 / -5

So anyone preoccupied with being an actual adult and not reading this dogshit is utterly unaffected, while the colossal soys reading it will be disappointed in a quiet perpetuity because leftist propaganda isn't something you're intended to enjoy. Pretentious sophistry is never an enjoyable thing regardless of the medium, regardless of political expectations.

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– KonyHawk_ProSlaver [S] 27 points 3 years ago +27 / -0

Kids read comics, too. It's a little depressing there are fewer and fewer places parents can relax about their kids not being infected with modern propaganda.

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– CletustheElitist 8 points 3 years ago +10 / -2

Thing is I remember being a kid and thinking "wow, this is really fucking gay." everytime some idealogue started preaching their shit within a cartoon or a movie or whatever. Some people would say that entertainment is malleable but I think there is a threshold to what can be forced. Kids like to have fun, this is the opposite - like that anti-drug cartoon special with Peewee Herman trying to dissuade you from doing crack, but instead this time trying to convince you that it's okay to cut your weiner off or trying to muddy the waters to impose some horriscope of a gender onto you, or make you feel that you're a monster because you happen to be white. I think that sense of "this is fucking stupid" will always persist, because these people pathologically cannot keep their mouths shut ever and they are blind to how people see them. They are that out of touch with reality, and cannot, will not, ever stop posturing. Ever.

I think it'll likely steer many kids away from these mediums for how stupid, alien, and generally atonal to fun they are and possibly stir the opposite. It's already a delusional, contrived political clusterfuck as is.