Regrettably, we must discuss the Superman Gay Panic.

[@KeithBallardA]

Liking Lois Lane: completely unsexual in every way Liking a boy: literally pornography, or something

[@jonathanredacted3245]

Additionally that bit about superman only liking lois lane is technically pedophillic 🤭

[@ChadBenjamin]

@@jonathanredacted3245 And incestuous

[@inigo137]

@@jonathanredacted3245 what? Why? 😳

[@inigo137]

@Trsum_ what happened with Clark? Does that mean that if Superman fucks all his children are as powerful as him? Why wouldn't he procreate and create an entire legion of supermen able to defend the universe from every single threat? I don't read the comics, sorry

[@transsylvanian9100]

@@inigo137 You're overthinking it. I don't think these things are supposed to make logical sense beyond a superficial level. It's fantasy, you're supposed to suspend your disbelief. This modern trend of overexplaining and overelaborating fantasy and magic that were never supposed to be explained is frankly vulgar and boring.

[@FakeSugarVillain]

I, as a heterosexual cis man, only kiss my cis heterosexual wife to signal to her that is time for us to consumate coitus and produce offspring

[@seamusmckeon9109]

The way you put it makes it sound an instruction manual

[@Nofixdahdress]

@@seamusmckeon9109 The new way I ask for consent is going to be "Requesting permission to initiate mating procedures." Then afterwards present them with a limited warranty and a coupon they can mail in for a discount on their next purchase.

[@chavaspada]

Based and straightpilled.

[@RexxyRobin]

@@seamusmckeon9109 Moreover it starts to sounds weirdly gay. Not the action, but the emotional detachment from heterosexuality^^

[@nailinthefashion]

@@seamusmckeon9109 honestly unhinged religious zealots these days sound like that level of satire, and that's the scariest part I didn’t think or know the Duggar family was real, I thought it was literally a scripted show

[@WhyDo]

"...Kellogg's workers are on strike right now, and so, in solidarity with them, you shouldn't eat Froot Loops, no matter how well the toucan respects your pronouns." 😭 this sentence needs to be put into a time capsule for future generations to see what our lives were like

[@johannageisel5390]

I find the taste of fruit in my cereal offensive.

[@anzaia2164]

I'm sorry but I have to fully agree with this statement.

[@matthewhearn9910]

Scab Cereal legit creates the same guttural revulsion in me that its labor ethics meaning deserves on an intellectual level so bravo.

[@PawsOnTheBalcony]

Especially considering that the original Mr. (Dr.? Col.? Sgt.?) Kellog was an uptight puritan douchenozzle who invented cornflakes to stop people from masturbating or something like that.

[@Sveggo]

I want to like this comment, but it has 420 likes atm...

[@josiahalcorne]

Yeah, had a guy ranting about this at work. "Can you believe that Superman is gay now?" "Actually it's Superboy." "Ok so now Superboy is supposed to be gay now, how do I explain that to my kid?" "I don't know how do you even explain who Superboy is to start with?" "What do you mean?" "Who is Superboy?" "Huh?" "Is that young Superman? Or Superman's kid? Or some alternate reality Superman? Or a clone version? I don't read Superman comics to know who that is. "I don't know either." "But we're pretty sure that we're talking about some version of an alien from another planet right?" "Yeah, I guess?" "How do you explain sexual relations with non-human characters in general?" "I don't want to talk to you anymore."

[@ZaiDrizzleDrop]

LOL DAMN

[@andistansbury4366]

He knew he had no argument there.

[@pepi7404]

The far right: "All this sex stuff that isn't straight is weird. Things should be like in Nordic culture." Nordic culture: "... and then Loki transformed into a mare and got himself knocked up by the other guys stallion."

[@RexxyRobin]

Can relate (to Loki)^^

[@jmWolfe2585]

@@RexxyRobin Nani?

[@pastordonkoh7692]

@@RexxyRobinin a John Tron fashion "What!....w.t.f"

[@RexxyRobin]

@@pastordonkoh7692 Okay, so I don't have transformed into a mare at any point in my life and haven't engaged with a stallion either. But that is definetely something I would do, were I capable of it. So while I can't relate to Loki's actions here, I relate to the impulse and the mindset :D

[@ZannyAisling]

​@@RexxyRobin can't believe i gotta kinkshame someone in the youtube comments section of all places but Even If You Can Turn Into A Horse, You Should Not Have Relations With Another Horse Unless That Horse Is Also Likewise A Transfigured Person Thus Sapient Thus Fully Capable Of Consent With Sapient Beings also regarding OP's point and like. the general mindset (i.e. to not go off-topic to be an abject buzzkill, sorry lkgsgklhsdhlk), it should still be noted that loki was like, considered... not good. loki's shenanigans weren't considered laudable. its arguably a precursor to the queer-coding that villains get. he wasn't an ANTAGONIST throughout the myths but loki wasn't considered "good" in the "how people should be" sense. Its still way weirder *content* then what puritanical lobbyists push for but they'd still be far more willing to overlook that than, say, two people identifying as similar genders kissing in a comic.

[@corwin32]

I don’t think Bruce Wayne should be anyone’s emotional pillar.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

And yet here we are

[@yourTownsEnd]

I think Clark would be good for Bruce, though.

[@xXRickTrolledXx]

Carrie Townsend Not even the Man of Steel can fix Batman. Only Bruce is capable of that.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@yourTownsEnd a therapist would be good for Bruce

[@jeremysmith4620]

You mean the withdrawn and psychologically damaged capitalist that uses his wealth as an excuse to commit violence upon citizens dealing with crippling mental health issues and delusions. This is while not only being above the law through his wealth and influence, but also while surrounding himself with young orphans that typically have no where else to turn so are therefore forced to dress in rubber/pvc fetish gear and participate in the violent roleplay. So probably not a great emotional pillar and definitely not someone who I'd let babysit.

[@devforfun5618]

-superman cant be gay because he loves Lois -ugh, she is his mom you sicko

[@acehealer4212]

It’s even funnier because she misspelled “Lois” as “Louis,” a masculine name. So in trying to argue Clark Kent is not gay, she accidentally made him look gayer. So add that on top of mixing that Superman up with his son, and the tweet is a total train wreck.

[@Pants4096]

@@acehealer4212 Nobody would EVER accept a couple named Louis and Clark. ◡̈

[@benjaminbaer5485]

To be fair, conservatives do seem to like that incest.

[@joshuakusuma5953]

@@benjaminbaer5485 Sweet Home Alabama, indeed.

[@andistansbury4366]

Freud, is that you?

[@metaforth]

Loki's been genderfluid since the times of Vikings. If they have a problem with him being genderfluid, they should take that up with the nords

[@jupiterzombies]

meanwhile also worship the idea of them, bc a lot of alt-rights are also ..........very racist.

[@okamiseven]

The Edda were SJW propaganda lmao

[@anabsolutemess8850]

Also, one of the Ultimate Vikings(real vikings who were buried with weapons because they were believed to go to Vallhalla for fighting so well) was found to be non-binary

[@fpedrosa2076]

Reading up as a young lad of the time that Loki turned into a female horse to seduce a male horse, and they went and had horse babies, and loki gave birth to those horse babies before turning back into a man, was quite the experience.

[@chavaspada]

It's my favourite way of trolling white supremacists, mention some norse stories. I don't know why but they're always "Pagan" and always claim to be asatru and worship the norse pantheon while being completely ignorant about the Aesir.

[@hpspacecraft713]

"Superman loves Lois Lane!" Yeah he still does she's his mom.

[@WannabeMarysue]

"We are forced to assume, outside the borders of the panels, everyone is chowing down on hogs and puss. In the liminal space between panels, its a hog and puss buffet." - Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.

[@SpookySkellyGurl]

Thank you for this

[@darlalathan6143]

I guess Alt-Right comics readers don't know about underground comix or Tom of Finland, lol!

[@Kyran1996]

This has motivated me to overcome my ADD and finally finish reading that.

[@tempesttossed6029]

"Stop sexualizing my comic book characters!" they shout over the sound of Catwoman and Batman boning CONSTANTLY.

[@fluidthought42]

And Batman with Black Canary. And Batman with Wondie. And Wondie with Superman. Honestly they need to stop shipping Diana with capes I'm sure her interests in men and/or women go beyond whether they're in the same line of work as her.

[@OtseisRagnarok]

@@fluidthought42 there is no Wonderwoman/[hero] ship that doesn't make her look bad. I'm with you 100%.

[@pepi7404]

Remember the animated killing joke, where Batman and Batgirl straight up had sex out in the open and the scene didn't cut away until Barbara stripped down to her bra? Definitely no sexuality there, sir.

[@jordanetherington1922]

But never eating Catwoman out

[@VAB0L0]

@@jordanetherington1922 Hey now, that's what the bat ears are for!

[@thepaulwalkerexperience8727]

It should also be mentioned that some writers have portrayed Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Batgirl, and Supergirl, as bisexual. But for some oddly selective reason, female bisexuality doesn't trigger them as much as when it's male on male.

[@sammykent5752]

Probably because these "bisexual" characters have NEVER dated or had a relationship with another female character.

[@bookbook9495]

They sure as hell said nothing about White Canary. (Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, she has more confirmed sex with girls than boys by now)

[@sammykent5752]

@Robert Yeah when?

[@ysucae]

because wlw is considered 'hot' by straight dudes so it's still 'catering' to them and they still feel entitled to be excited by a sexuality that doesn't include them it's freaking awesome.

[@thepaulwalkerexperience8727]

@@ysucae Actually, that makes a lot of sense.

[@chicliac]

"That's not gender fluidity, that's science fiction!" is a marvelous line

[@DarthSocks]

The line right after, "Are you worried this will inspire children to travel to alternate dimensions?" also got me

[@targaghjj]

I thought he was going to say "that's incest!"

[@purplespectre]

@@targaghjj It's selfcest, which is functionally more like masturbation, so it's okay.

[@michaelneufeld4515]

INDOCTRINIZATION

[@chicliac]

@@michaelneufeld4515 Could you specify your meaning? Screaming one word all caps tends to be misleading. Who's indoctrinating whom here?

[@Haiphong778]

"Hey! Hey did you hear!? Superman's son is gay!" *Me looks up from news paper oldly* "Superman has a son?"

[@authenticlimeflavor432]

"Why are they sexualizing superheros now" bro wonder woman literally started out as a bdsm thing

[@darlalathan6143]

By a feminist, during WWII!

[@TrenchMan93]

“Yeah but its okay when its a chick” I bet thats something these assholes would say.

[@fart63]

basically all women in superhero comics are sexualized.

[@krismckasson]

The whole Robin gay panic thing is made all the funnier because of a typesetting error on the cover of his debut that changed "an ally" to "anally".

[@xXRickTrolledXx]

That is actually hilarious

[@Genderanarchy]

Wow that would be one hell of a drag name a double-double entendre!

[@Hotshotter3000]

For real?

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

Holy butt plugs batman!

[@MyMusicSosa]

@@Hotshotter3000 just looked it up it says "The batman... At last takes under his protecting mantle anally in his relentless fight against crime. Introducing in this issue... Robin"

[@radicalac8545]

I feel like being called "terribly gay" is one of the highest complements you can receive.

[@starvalkyrie]

"You see Lord Freiza, you're not dealing with the average gay warrior"

[@lkeke35]

Im not gay, but I would give anything to be considered "terribly gay"! That sounds kinda awesome.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

@@lkeke35 Well if you want to take the literal meaning of the words being straight could be considered terribly gay as in you are terrible at being gay. Edit: On further thought it might require you to try to be gay but fail miserably at it. So what you need to do is go out and try to pick up a guys but keep ending up with women. I envision sitcom hijinks for the best effect.

[@xXRickTrolledXx]

“You’re dealing with the Legendary Super Gayan”

[@everythingcoffee8901]

Once someone called me “too gay for this world”. The guy who said that was an asshole but it was legitimately one of the best compliments I’ve ever received

[@martianpudding9522]

If you identify as straight and you find gay relationships to be inherently more sexually provocative than straight relationships maybe you should do some introspection about that

[@notarabbit1752]

definitely nothing to be read into straight people who think about gay sex constantly and all the time

[@AmberAmber]

@@notarabbit1752 @Martian Pudding Agree with you both!!! Long ago, I used to get paid to act in improv shows (ikr?) & IF (on "Family‐Friendly" night) the characters portrayed by my fellow actors were gay men? My born-again boss found it hilarious. HOWEVER (cos I actually AM •mostly• gay) & thus would portray a gay woman on occasion? I'd get a talk about it keeping it "Family- Friendly"; we all concluded our boss must find lesbian porn hot, but the idea of men being gay was a silly comedic trope. Otherwise he actually was a really good boss & human, but this in particular just always bugged me so much - He didn't know I was gay but I felt like he saw my (closeted) existence solely as a fetish for dudes.

[@soupalex]

"all these homosexuals SHOVING THEIR SEXUALITY DOWN MY THROAT"

[@AmberAmber]

@@soupalex "...just shoving it, hot, pistons of gay... I'm losing my gag reflex GoshDernIt!!"

[@duncanbug]

As far as I can tell that’s like 90% of people. Seems like it’s a projection of the stereotype of male actions being predatory and not loving imo.

[@cashnelson2306]

Hey stink Matt. Just wanted to say it's noticeable that you're one of the few KZbinrs - even among lefty people - that actually includes good subtitles rather than relying on the meh automatic captions. I greatly appreciate it and I'm sure I'm not alone, thanks for putting that effort in. I'm very disappointed when creators who make plenty of money on Patreon - usually including money from me - don't care enough to have subtitles made.

[@bookbook9495]

Yeah, Mildred is great with subtitles!

[@DavidRamirez-se2yt]

I guess they started adding subtitles to older videos.

[@Lexi_Zone]

"They made Loki genderfluid! THEY MADE LOKI GENDERFLUID!" Dude stop straightifying Norse gods.

[@RexxyRobin]

But.. but.. don't you see? If I don't act as if any deviance from the monogamous-cishet-norm nuclearfamiliychristianwhitepersonsecond amendment IS a new thing and an act against god then I would have to realize that there is no natural order and the rules forced on myself and my family aren't actually noble sacrifices but just trivial nonsense!......

[@politiqueen420]

@@RexxyRobin gold

[@daviddrake5991]

Have you read how Odin got his horse? He is genderfluid back when writing on animal skin was the only way.

[@justinbradley2865]

Loki is literally speciesfluid in actual Norse myths.

[@daviddrake5991]

@FunDumb Hero How about the story of Zeus giving birth many times?

[@Ehomba1]

Superman's gay? What's next, he comes out as an alien?

[@starvalkyrie]

"The woke scolds have decided to make Superman an immigrant!"

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

An Illegal one at that.

[@SonicTheFrenchHorn]

Jonathan Kent was born on Earth. He isn't an alien.

[@vxicepickxv]

No. He's bi. Big difference.

[@okamiseven]

@@SonicTheFrenchHorn they'll just say he's an "anchor baby"

[@brony4869]

the genderfuild loki thing was mentioned because there's a shot of Loki's file that lists things like name, height weight, eye color, ect(the typical kinda thing)... under "sex", it lists him as 'fluid'. a tiny nod to her gender fluidity and shapeshifting powers

[@simonoliver4751]

I love the gender fluidity of the Norse pantheon, and wish pop culture would be more aware of that.

[@asmodiusjones9563]

To anyone who doesn’t know, in actual Norse mythology Loki once turned into a female horse, had sex with a regular male horse (ie not another god in shapeshifted horse form), got pregnant, and gave birth to an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir who Odin later took as his main horse. I can’t think of any more specific definitions than genderfluid for “presents as male but also sometimes is a female horse”.

[@loreleimonn3220]

Also there’s a point in the MCU where Loki transforms into Lady Sif among other characters

[@DarkExcalibur42]

lol i should have scrolled down further before I posted my comment. You already beat me to it.

[@cybermang878]

@@asmodiusjones9563 Wasn't there also that one time Thor and Loki pretended to be Freya and a random bridesmaid to steal Mjölnir back from a group of giants? I think that the text used feminine pronouns when referring to Loki while she was a bridesmaid, while masculine pronouns were used for Thor when he was disguised as Freya.

[@devforfun5618]

just pointing out a straight sex scene that some people, including me, considers of bad taste, is batman and batgirl in the killing joke, also there are mutiple comics where writers want superman and his underage cousing become a couple, while a lot of people hate those elements, it never became mainstream news worthy, let alone in international media, like the gay superman was

[@fluidthought42]

I always hate it when they pair Diana up with Bats or Supes. The guys can be afforded love interests outside of work (or at least, outside of the JL) but Diana has to pick from the wreck that is Bruce or the guy who already has a dedicated love interest? Sheesh.

[@tajkoreddeninthearctic194]

@@fluidthought42 I’m not fully understanding this discussion but it sounds like a case of “Hmm yes male protagonist I am one of few female characters take me here!”

[@vyk4753]

"do not eat fruit loops no matter how well the toucan respects your pronouns" is really tickling me, as a quote

[@DOCTOR.DEADHEAD]

It's just funny how these people can't see how blatantly obvious their bias and homophobia is by claiming their problem with two men kissing is that it's "sexual" in a medium where the sexualization of female characters is rampant, but that's a whole other discussion.

[@carsanwitt]

I wouldn't call it "funny" but I get it. They both refuse to discuss their assumed "truth" (queer = bad because inherently sexual) and how it contradicts their refusal to acknowledge sexualization of women.

[@skillcoiler]

I know this is a two year old video and comment but I was just making fun of Dean Cain about something else and this was brought up so I was reading through old comments and no one seems to have said this part about it..... They have a problem with "sexualizing kids in comics through a gay well technically bi kiss" sure everyone pointed out that is crazy for obvious reasons being kisses aren't expressly sexual and straight characters do it all the time to no complaints from them..... BUT no one has seemed to mentioned that they were also okay with actual hetero penetrative sex being at least implied in comics....... I mean Jonathan Kent came from Superman doing the same thing....

[@FairyPrincessNia]

One Facebook post that I'll never forget is, "People who complain about comics becoming too political are mad that they've become the type of person that their favorite heroes punch in the face." Comics were always political right from the start. They was never on your side in the first place, boo boo.

[@LuckGG1]

I mean, sometimes comics are explicitly right wing, fash, imperialist propaganda. There are writers and artists that hold those views and their movies tend to be ehhhhhh pretty pro-us army

[@nathanmeagher7869]

@@LuckGG1 Frank Miller's Batman comes to mind

[@AgentHeroic]

Superman was created by a Jewish author, very likely with the idea of the Golem in mind, his origin the ideal of the American Dream of an immigrant fully realized, his first few years in comics spent as a social activist fighting crooked business men and demolishing run down tenements. Not all art is political but to somehow pretend Superman is above politics is stupid.

[@dinnerwithfranklin2451]

Oh that is brilliant!

[@Nuvizzle]

@@LuckGG1 Yeah and the reason nobody gets mad about that is because when it happens the media in question is almost universally trash so nobody really cares about it, it sucks for conservatives that all good media worth enjoying is made by their ideological opposites.

[@beansfebreeze]

The flash: "I'm the fastest man alive." What conservatives hear: "I need that they/them bussy."

[@lachlanmcgowan5712]

þussy

[@kamusta3446]

@@lachlanmcgowan5712 Thessy

[@christiancasaverdepertica1802]

"They/them" "bussy" Me: Confused screaming

[@Kyran1996]

And what we want to hear.

[@stephenvelez9710]

“And Spider-Man has always dated every woman in Manhattan” almost made me wreck🤣

[@Friska_Rexie]

Stop watching youtube while driving is dangerous

[@stephenvelez9710]

@@Friska_Rexie I was just listening! Mildread cracks me up so hard, I don't even need to be watxhung🤣

[@misterjt961]

if pronouns make these folks so confused and angry, wait until they find out about verbs

[@thebolas000]

It'll send 'em in to contractions.

[@svrvphimprod]

Guys we can't let the right find out about adjectives they will RIOT

[@connerblank5069]

But I thought you learned verbs BEFORE pronouns...

[@TrenchMan93]

“THE VERB AGENDA!”- a title for 45 Quartering and Nerdrotic thumbnails

[@GHOSTPLANEtable]

Already struggle with verb tense: woke

[@caitgrate6172]

ok I had to pause the video to point this out: this goofy kid is over here talking about "sexualization" of cartoons leading to a rise in teenage pregnancy when numbers from the CDC show the teenage birth rate in the US has been declining the entire time I've been alive. How precious.

[@RyanTosh]

Also it's famously comic book geeks who are contributing massively to teen pregnancy :p

[@Wyattporter]

Have I fallen into an alternate universe where Lois Lane is named Louis Lane? That shows up twice in this video. Incidentally, Louis Lane would be a perfect name for Superman’s journalist boyfriend

[@draexian530]

I think The Slime is doing a bit.

[@guy-sl3kr]

Actually, her name is Luis Berenstein

[@vesaryn]

One of the status quo warriors tweeted “Louis” instead of “Lois” in their outrage tweet on the whole thing.

[@gruenenator]

Yeah, I noticed that too, it's a hilarious mistake considering they're specifically getting upset about the idea of Supes being with another man. And yeah, totally agree with you, I'd love to see a Supes comic where he has a boyfriend named Louis Lane, very funny and clever play on words, *AND* it would *REALLY* piss off the idiots who get mad about this stuff.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Then one of the responses to that was to congratulate Louis Lane for coming out as a transman. Which I totally support.

[@chloe-un9cn]

jeremy quartering taking the brave stance that trans people are, indeed, "out there"

[@tempesttossed6029]

I want to believe.

[@sorel7342]

And they’re coming for your kids!! (That felt like it was the next thing he wanted to say..)

[@vissersixty-nine6246]

every second you're not running we're only getting closer :)

[@blarg2429]

@@vissersixty-nine6246 Nice username.

[@chavaspada]

Who even watches him anymore? Even /pol/ hates his click-baity videos where he says nothing for 10 minutes straight.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

It is funny that the term "sexuality" became the accepted standard reference for orientation (which, of course, opens the door for the stupid "I just don't want 'SEXUALITY' in comic books" argument) when back in the day, "homophilia" or "biphilia" were accepted and sometimes even prefered terms for orientation, more clearly relating to love rather than sex. And we see that some in newer terms like "mlm" and "wlw". These are the things I think about with my English degree...

[@d.w.stratton4078]

I love that you've an English degree and a misspelling in your username. Brava.

[@dellismulligan]

The only common terms we use with the suffix "philia" are things like zoophilia, necrophilia and pedophilia. I do not think using it over "sexual" fixes the problem in the least. If anything it makes it sound more like the things they compare it to when they use ~slippery slope~ rhetoric.

[@OtseisRagnarok]

@@dellismulligan is that why they moved away from that terminology?

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

@@dellismulligan That could certainly be why those terms went out of fashion. It's sort of a mismatch that the paraphilias get the "love" suffix when they have more to do with sex than the "sexual orientations" consistently do.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

@@d.w.stratton4078 (I made this username in like 6th grade and I never bothered to change it, lol)

Here in Brazil this political proxy strategy went batsh*t crazy: a professional voleyball player, even drafted for the national team in some ocasions, went public to criticize this whole superman's bi crisis saying things like "this is not our superman" or even "where do we go from there" impling some hidding agenda going on. After a few days and pathetic apology attempts, he got fired from his team, expelled from future drafts to the national team but.... rose from 200k followers on Instgram to nearly 3 million! And just after a few posts on Instagram we have a new right-wing leader.

[@carsanwitt]

They love playing the victim/martyr when they have to face the consequences of their actions... it looks like lack of self awareness but it hides the truth: they believe they don't deserve the same treatment as minorities out of a sense of superiority. I'm just glad he at last got fired to begin with, from what I hear of Brazil, I thought it would go the other way...

[@drago3036]

Damn. I live in Brazil and i didn't knew that. Tragic.

[@SnoConeWars]

"we wanted them to catch the bad guy, not catch a venereal disease" is such a horrible disgusting line, oh my gods, it makes my skin crawl oh and the "grooming" guy is also moral reprehensible

[@marksalmoneussorcerersupreme]

Yeah that was just out of line.

[@milliondollarmistake]

Gods? There is only one God and His name is Allah

[@TwoGoblinsInATrenchCoat]

@@milliondollarmistake It's a turn of phrase, calm down

[@karlkhai51]

@@milliondollarmistake you know how many religious are on earth right.....?

[@TwoGoblinsInATrenchCoat]

@@karlkhai51 Yeah, I know, I'm just saying that monotheism dominates the globe, and the phrase 'oh my gods' has gotten popularized among secular people by stuff like the Riordan Books, so it's more likely it's being used as a turn of phrase, and besides, the guy doesn't need to be some kind of templar about his faith.

[@matthewrobertson8696]

"There are plenty of ways to have unfulfilling sex without struggling to learn how to apply a cat eye" - Thought Slime 2021

[@MorgenPeschke]

On that note, I really want to know where they learned how to do that. Hooded eyes are a pain 😖

[@slevinchannel7589]

Uuuuuhm, i dont think this youtuber here knows what Wokeness is. Does he know the Difference btween real, actual Representation (=Owl House) and laughably-twisted, unhealthy, should-be-ridiculed 'Representation' (=Batwoman)?

[@bmanguru]

Thoughtslime, I'm totally inviting myself to your house once you get adopted by Batman and Superman.

[@taranullius9221]

I got dibs on the Batmobile though.

[@starvalkyrie]

Oh don't let them find out about the "real" Loki and horses.

[@BeastGuardian]

Not to mention the legendary Loki spent 8 years living as a milkmaid and, as referenced in the Njörðr, gave birth to either dark elf (aka the dwarven artisans) or human children. Oh, and Odin often took the physical form of a wise woman in order to spread his knowledge of runes and witchcraft.

[@tempesttossed6029]

They probably wouldn't care about that nearly as much as they do LGBT leaning themes.

[@michimatsch5862]

@@BeastGuardian huh. I knew about the horse, but that is new. Really gotta read it myself at some point.

[@SnakeMan448]

Holy shit, the point about how bigots want LGBTQ+ characters to only exist in a story about attaining civil rights and never as people living a regular happy life is so eye opening.

[@shelbypowell9919]

Minorities may only exist in media if their minority-ness doesn’t threaten the majority. Black people must be subordinate to white people, women can’t threaten masculinity, queer people can’t have more fulfilling relationships than straight people. A fight for equality doesn’t threaten the in group, as long as we don’t all have to be *too* equal

[@ricardobautista-garcia8492]

@@shelbypowell9919 I fully agree. I could not seem to articulate this when arguing with Critical Drinker fans. I must admit that my mistake was arguing with them in the first place.

[@privatehere3324]

@@ricardobautista-garcia8492 drinker has a conservative bias minorities are only okay as long as they aren’t the main focus if arcane has more vi and Caitlyn scenes he will turn on it.

[@ricardobautista-garcia8492]

@@privatehere3324 I was surprised that the title for the CD review on Arcane was positive. I might watch the show thus I am unsure what he had to say about any LGBTQ relationship.

[@thejuiceking2219]

@@ricardobautista-garcia8492 i think in general a lot of the time it's not about the characters themselves or wokeness but with the writing, but of course they can't just say that because that doesn't get the views

[@swiftxrt]

"The Complainosphere" a much more descriptive name for Twitter than the one it currently has

[@gruenenator]

Can we all appreciate that the idiot who tweeted whining about Superman being gay misspelled Lois Lane's name as "Louis", a very typically male name? Like, she's trying to complain that she doesn't want superman to be gay, by stating as a counterpoint that superman loves someone named Louis. Like, that's so perfect, I couldn't have made up something funnier if I'd spent a week trying.

[@nailinthefashion]

If only the trash could take itself out irl, if only..

[@treymykel]

Well the problem is with that sweet is that the person actually get a typo and doesn't read the comic books because the comic books probably has been aged out for that person for a long time a lot of those people do not keep up with current DC anymore because we kind of made comic books not important we told people that comic books aren't important so that's why and most people who know Superman Only knows Clark can't Lois Lane they don't know about the Sun or anything because DC doesn't promote that and the only time they fall to the sun is when they made him bisexual so that's not really that person's fault for not knowing.

[@pixelfire86]

Congrats to Louis Lane for coming out as a trans man!

[@jonathanxavier2026]

r/accidentalAlly

[@paultapping9510]

Well, on the one hand I DO like not being thrown off a building, but on the other hand, I kind of feel that's setting the bar pretty low for acceptable reactions to us homosexuals, y'know.... existing.

[@LongForgottenJ]

Yeah, some people like to give themselves a lot of credit for not being the literal worst person.

[@chrish5697]

Not to mention horrible shit still happens to us in America all the time lol

[@seekingabsolution1907]

Thanks for putting it into words, reminds me of how Carl of Swindon used to complain about feminists not being outraged about women's rights else where even though they were and he was just angry about the fact that they were pointing out sexism in England and the US. It was awful and I'm glad I stopped watching him.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

"I'm slightly less shitty than the shittiest people imaginable." Congratulations Dean Cain, did you want a cookie?

[@d.w.stratton4078]

Ahmedinejad was pretty clear: there simply isn't a single gay person in Iran. They don't have them. Do you realize what this means? They gave never had a big gay party. They've never had Pride. My gays, we could corner the market on gaiety in Iran. I say we give them a free sample and then start charging. We'll be jillionaires.

[@Iluminatili]

tbf, when I read a comic book I definitely imagine the characters having the wildest sex just outside of view. Like you can't tell me the Hall of justice isn't a total bone zone

[@lysanamcmillan7972]

It's an Olympic athletes' village concentrated into fewer bodies.

[@tajkoreddeninthearctic194]

Yeaaahhhhh just like the Seven

[@heathercalun4919]

2:52 Considering that Slime just explained that the gay Superman is Superman's son, the unintentionally implication of this tweet is that conservatives would be MORE OKAY with Superman dating his mother, than another fella. Which is... _pretty funny_

[@darlalathan6143]

I don't think the Alt-Right know about Superman having a son, lol!

[@ChampiVenao]

Mildred's eyeliner game is getting better and better so fast 🥺 I'm so proud of them 🥺🥺💖

[@jamesrule1338]

I was going to make a joke about how the eyeball zone was retconned in the new 52, but then I looked to see how long ago the new 52 was and immediately turned into a pile of mummified dust...

[@technopoptart]

why do you have to hurt me like this, james?

[@me30000]

That was 10 years ago? Wow, time flies

[@racewiththefalcons1]

I was about to respond with a joke about Dean Cain's desire to be relevant in 2021, but in researching what films he's actually been in, I discovered that he's appeared in a suspiciously large number of dog-centered films: The Dog Who Saved Christmas The 3 Dogateers Agent Toby Barks The Dog Who Saved Easter A Dog for Christmas The Dog Who Saved Halloween Baby Bulldog The Dog Who Saved Summer A Belle For Christmas Small Town Santa The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation Aussie and Ted's Great Adventure Ace of Hearts The Dog Who Saved The Holidays Skydog Dog Boys Bailey's Billion And now I have only questions. Nevermind his other project, Andy the Talking Hedgehog. Why are we still discussing about Superman when all of this needs to be investigated?

[@vetreas366]

He was also in "Dog's Not Dead" ... ... No wait, I misread that... Carry on!

[@chesterpoindexter7594]

it's funny t'me how "conservative" he is now considering he was also in a film called 'The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy'.... a gay romantic comedy

[@raycearcher5794]

Dean Cain's star really looked like it was on the rise, but then he took just a massive nosedive. I can only assume that, like Kirk Cameron, he's a total weirdo off camera and nobody wants to work with him but those to whom he panders politically. And a lot of these weirdos like to blame those politics for getting them kicked to the B list, but like... Clint Eastwood is still big. Gary Busey still makes bank. Obviously just being a conservative doesn't get you cancelled by Hollywood. You know what does? Being a big old weirdo jerk.

[@mayuthekitsune3306]

As good bad or bad bad taught me, dean cain is in a strangely large amount of christmas movies, especially ones about dogs

[@WhatsTherapy]

lmao imagine thinking a rise in teenage pregnancy comes from comics

[@dt8639]

From including a gay couple no less

[@transsylvanian9100]

Yes, i was not aware that there was an epidemic of comics impregnating teens, quite the impressive feat.

[@olahfeji]

"There are plenty of ways to have unfullfiling sex without struggling to learn how to apply a cat-eye." I love you.

[@angryretailbanker5103]

What's funny in the more broad sense is that these Quartering-type bigots will say that they just don't want comics getting so political and then turn around and talk about how X-Men was their favorite superhero team as a kid.

[@MrPooleish]

Wait, it wasn't even Kal-El? Clark isn't bi, it's his son?

[@PoggoMcDawggo]

Yep!

[@lkeke35]

Yahp! They tripping because one of his son's (the one carrying the title of Superman) is gay. Although I have to admit that just yelling out Superman is gay! like that, is kinda clickbaity.

[@flask223]

Well he’s superman now

[@Exarian]

yep. it's a detail that LITERALLY nobody on any side of the argument could have been assed to figure out.

[@MrPooleish]

@@flask223 oh, absolutely. I was confused because all the angry old men that complained at me talked like it was Clark who was bi. I realize the outrage is a performance, but I hadn't realized it was so fake they didn't even know which Superman they were made about.

[@bobbybooshay5388]

"Don't make existing characters gay! Make new characters" "Alright. Heres our new character Jon Kent." "HOW DARE YOU! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

maybe if they called him "Superboy" instead of Superman. Giving him a new title may have been less triggering/confusing for them

[@sauce1101]

@@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate you must be new to the world.

[@bobbybooshay5388]

@@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate yes but only because saying how much a travesty superboy is gay rather than superman is more liable to get you swirlied in a locker than marketable outrage.

[@gameinsane4718]

@@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate ok… keeping him as Superboy and announcing “Superboy is gay” would only change the knee-jerk backlash to “why did they turn Connor Kent gay?” Oh yeah, there’s also 2 active robins with Damian and Tim Drake, at least 5 human green lanterns… and like 3 flashes TWO OF WHICH ARE WALLY WEST. This is just how DC rolls with legacy characters

[@SonicTheFrenchHorn]

@@gameinsane4718 It's Jonathan Kent. Conner was the pre New 52 clone of Clark and Lex Luthor. Or some shit. Jonathan debuted with DC Rebirth and is Clark's actual son. He's the one people are mad about. Just FYI.

[@theodorexenophon7612]

Fuck yeah. I want a POV comic with Bat and Super Dads. It's just the reader vibing with them and getting good life advice. No real action either, just really cozy, slice of life vibes.

[@enmunate]

Superman is nightwings dad too. He is like if Batman made love with Superman. He is the best of both worlds.

[@strangething77]

Check out the Batfamily web comic.

[@tristanstieber6499]

That reminds me of my idea for a Batman movie: It's about Bruce as an overworked single dad with a bunch of stepchildren (kinda to balance out the violence and darkness of the Reeves/Pattinson-Batman). Make it a wholesome comedy, not a lot of action, a romance, maybe it's Christmas, it writes itself.

[@Materminds187]

Make this a Midnighter and Apollo comic

[@thepopculturejunky]

go to AO3 - superbat tag, fluff tag, make sure some of the robins are listed as characters, filter out everything over the teen rating, sort by kudos. it’s prose not comics but you’ll find the content

[@McFlingleson]

As an AMAB, masculine-presenting person, makeup isn't really my thing, but I can still respect that other people like it and recognize when it's done well, so I like the eye makeup.

[@kozhedub]

i love the distinction between "Normal people" vs "conservatives"

[@xxJETSETxx]

I have very much felt since the beginning of this whole thing that DC's "Well what if we DO have LGBTQA Characters, huh? HOW ABOUT THAT?" has been in direct response to Marvel/Disney's tepid "Ehhhhnnnnn. I ... Ok. There'll be.... one. Over there. But we're going to ignore them and like... retcon it later" approach to comics. It's nothing to do with actually supporting LGBTQA folks, and everything with trying to corner a market to compete against their rival.

[@fluidthought42]

Is Iceman gay? Who the fuck knows anymore! Is Wolverine straight? Always! Is Deadpool straight? Well he's crazy so it doesn't count.

[@PapaphobiaPictures]

Marvel has definitely gotten better more recently in placing queer characters in all sorts of titles, but still has a long way to go

[@miticaBEP07]

“This is DarkVeil, she’s a black Drag Queen from the foster system who can control dark matter. She loves the X-Men, hence having an X on her suit despite not being on the team, and she sings at Pride and talks about how the real heroes were Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera” “Ok I’m intrigued, what does she do?” “…you mean she’s supposed to DO stuff after being introduced?”

[@fluidthought42]

@@miticaBEP07 DC isn't great either in its past, anyone remember the New Guardians? Comics suck at representation until they don't and even then it's hit or miss. That's what happened and is happening with race and it'll happen with sexuality and gender identity as well.

[@miticaBEP07]

@@fluidthought42 …no, I have no idea who the New Guardians is. Are they underrated gems? It’s sad because I do like gritty and action comics, but I just wish I’d find something more that includes us aside from children’s cartoons and young adult lit. Before someone suggests The Old Guard: I own that comic, but you’re lying to yourself if you think those characters are superheroes, let alone a power fantasy.

[@wookieehugger]

“Spider-Man just guzzles gallons of cum” made me lose it in the bank, to the point of having to leave because I couldn’t stop laughing. Great stuff Mildred!!!

[@rcx9681]

She made me pause the video at that line oh god

[@francinegee9997]

I echoed you without realizing it---I can't stop laughing either!

[@chaotickreg7024]

Had to pause the video because I was... laughing...

[@wookieehugger]

@Throw Away sorry, my mistake. Mil-Dread should really be the correct spelling

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

I long for the day that the phrase "gay panic" will be ultimately reduced to the way Kpop stans use them

[@Exarian]

the Kpop scene has it's own homophobia problem it really needs to deal with. If you talk positively or even neutrally about gay men or BEING a gay man on twitter, they'll sometimes just swarm the post and act really shitty about it. If you try to tell them "you know this is like homophobic right?" they'll just take that as license to target you as well. I think it's mostly some very confused teenagers thinking they're scoring a point for women or something and they're using the same tactics that rightfully got them praise when aimed at people who are actually being bigoted. Either way, the Kpop scene has some really hard conversations they gotta deal with and the people who are a problem are very keen to avoid any introspection on the matter. The Kpop scene strikes me as particularly prone to self-reinforcing behavior so bad habits can get entrenched real quick.

[@blissfulrain]

@@Exarian I think they're referring to kpop fans habit of using "gay panic" to mean a gay person panicking over being around an attractive person instead of the usual use meaning straight people "panicking" over a gay person existing. Other than that you are definitely right about the kpop scene. It's a complicated mess since for the international fanbase there are cultural and language barriers to contend with on top of concerns of fetishizing gay people and relationships and then people using those concerns to silence any talk of people potentially being gay in anyway.

[@imhappy7632]

I never heard of Kpop stan's using gay panic as a term but it's something I've heard being used by gay people when they discover their gay or when they discover their gay or when they get a crush. Surprisingly never heard of it used in a way that's like "straight person panicking over gay person"

[@flfb]

I'm emotional seeing a bit from Mildred about how she's super gorgeous and attractive - it's so much more fun! I hope that his gender presentations are making him as confident as he seems. They deserve it.

[@svrvphimprod]

I honestly had no idea they were gender fluid

[@Jayfishey]

The algorithm has brought me to your video for the first time, very happy it did! I just wanted to say I knew I'd be a fan before the 3 minute mark, you managed to convey solid opinions, humour and kindness in quick succession in these two lines; 1:38 "Do you think a man and a boy can't be alone together without having sex? Do you think men cannot raise children? Are you ok? Is everything ok?" 2:04 "Sometimes it means something important to people and I don't want to take away from that" The opinions and humour is what I want, but the kindness is what I need, a bit of grounding when dealing with a topic that's easy to get worked up about.

[@nicksnrub7265]

Slime speakin' straight to my soul. Mostly about Spider-Man drinking stuff and She Hulk punishing me.

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

I need a woman that will just straight up kill me.

[@andrejg4136]

Ngl some of my strongest fantasies involve a woman that can literally throw me over her shoulder. The inverse of the cartoon caveman if you will.

[@russellharrell2747]

More Thought Slime lore: adopted by World’s Finest Gay Couple, constantly trying to make his dads proud but not realizing they have always been proud of TS already. Also I was waiting for the return of sitting on birthday cakes. But I was pleasantly surprised it was She-Hulk doing so to punish ne’er-do-wells.

[@michimatsch5862]

What is up with that birthday cake stuff? Like, I do not understand.

[@pacotaco1246]

@@michimatsch5862 its, just what people do!

[@russellharrell2747]

@@pacotaco1246 it’s what the cool people do

[@anicepineapple9067]

Me seeing that Superman is gay: “oh that’s neat.” Other people I guess???: “THIS IS AN ATTACK ON OUR CULTURE!!”

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

I mean, I was more shocked by the idea that the parts matched up between humans and Kryptonians.

[@mirandawhittaker8481]

Seeing sweet very good boy Jon kissing someone and being happy made me happy. There's a real problem with teen/tween characters being written in dysfunctional romances because: Angst. I get that early dating and such is hard, but I do actually want to see young people being happy sometimes because they can.

[@Wrynwynn]

You’re soooo progressive!!! 😍😍😍 OMG!! I love you! Wow! My hero!!! What an ally! 😱😱😱

[@blammers]

That was my exact reaction. The "oh neat" part, not the manufactured culture war bullshit.

[@huntsman9316]

It's not even superman, it's his son

[@lu-xf3ij]

The thing about queer people being used in media only as an argument for civil rights, or to make some kind of statement, is something I (as a queer person) have always recognized and felt but haven’t quite been able to put my finger on and identity. That’s exactly what it is and you explained it so well

[@cursedapostate3705]

It's funny how people will say "stop turning already established straight characters gay!" And then when a relatively new character is bi they still freak out

[@thebigdawgj]

Name one new character that can't be boiled down to "established character but [minor change]".

[@darthmocap]

@@thebigdawgj That could be said about most popular characters. Look at the bat family. Not really much separates one from the others, they are all renditions of batman.

[@thebigdawgj]

@@darthmocap Yes, and? I don't like that either.

[@darthmocap]

@@thebigdawgj ...and....nothing I guess. Just saying. Frankly, as long as it makes sense to the story. It would be stupid to make Kal-El randomly gay, I guess if it was as elsworlds tale not so much, but Superman is a title carries by different people who have different lives. I think most people upset about it just fail to realize that and think they are loosing something so someone else can have something.

[@derangel9143]

@@thebigdawgj What, exactly, is your point here? I don’t see how that is in any way relevant to what was being said.

[@AbMaSync]

You know, I was more happy minutes ago when I thought "the ambiguously gay duo" was just a dumb free meme instead of an actual short produced officially. It had a budget, think about that, someone paid money to air that.

[@NocturnalAegis]

You talking about Superman and Batman being your parents genuinely made me laugh out loud. Great stuff as usual.

[@deebzscrub]

Thank you for addressing this issue the way I see it, as a big non-issue that homophobes blew out of proportion to just be mad that The Gays exist.

[@KaraJohn-h4k]

I, as a queer person, do not only bone down, but also bone up. Which is a slang term for necromancy, the most forbidden manner of motivating someone to cosplay sans undertale

[@deanmckenna7641]

I paused this video to answer a text. Forgot about it for a bit and then turned it on to hear thought slime say: "Dean. Hey Dean! I know you are watching Dean" and I nearly shat myself.

[@zoe_bee]

Is it weird if I ask what light you're using for that incredible green ✨glow✨? 👀

[@ThoughtSlime]

It's an rgb floodlights from Amazon, and honestly I rould not recommend it. It looks awful unless I fuck with the camera settings a ton.

[@BeastGuardian]

@@ThoughtSlime obviously, you should find yourself some sort of emerald and violet laterns, something powered by some of your best aspects.

[@fridjidkleftaeon3908]

*Dysentery*

[@coyoteblue4027]

The green one

[@johannageisel5390]

It's obviously slimelight.

[@kate2late91]

Also making characters bisexual provides more relationship opportunities, that helps.

[@tempesttossed6029]

Shipping sells.

[@lysanamcmillan7972]

Not really, no. Just diversifies a pool that doesn't grow anywhere near as much as a child rapist's joke leads you to believe.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@lysanamcmillan7972 WTF are you talking about?

[@awest182]

@@lysanamcmillan7972 huh?

[@funnyblog100]

How about making characters that happen to be bisexual instead of making characters bisexual? Believe me there is a difference. Gender and sexualty is put forward as such a huge part of a person or character's identity that they keep forgetting to give them an identity outside of that.

[@jeremysmith4620]

Not to be confused with Franco/German zoomer post-Nihilist philosopher, street juggler and sound cloud genre-fluid musician, Hogg Un'Puss Buffette' They are actually dropping their new thesis/mixtape this month, titled the "Übermenstruate" The mixtape going to be pansexual fire.

[@michimatsch5862]

I actually just read Übermensch and got really confused.

[@interiordagoth]

this reads like scrimmy bingus lore

[@laurasweightlossjourney]

This reminds me of the time someone tried to argue with my husband that because he married a woman, he isn’t bi. He said “being married to a woman, doesn’t mean I stopped liking d*cks. You don’t instantly lose sexual attraction to other women because you are married, right? It’s the same thing”

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

I don't want to make Dean Cain's idea sound better than it really was, but I would definitely like the idea of a queer superhero just casually flying over to a very anti-queer place on the map where some bigot is about to toss someone off a roof for being gay, and then the hero (anti-hero, at this point) just tosses he bigot off the roof instead. Then the hero could fly the gay person to a safer place and force that country to hurry along the immigration process or something. Maybe that's this hero's whole thing, just finding people of all sorts being directly oppressed, removing the oppressors, then providing the oppressed with real liberty and security.

[@rydacted6613]

The logical question your hero should ask themselves, having killed their first bigot, is why stop there? After all, all these people are bigots, all of them would throw someone off the roof. And they will again, if you don't act. If you have the power to 'force that country' to change the policy that a democratically elected government (however flawed) implemented, why not do that? When they were new, I liked Iron-Age comics protagonists murdering bad guys. The stories were about delving into the charcoal grey of human nature. If you have the power, why not use it? Ultimately though, I don't like the idea, because the stories are not about hero's, they are about terrorists with super powers.

[@darlalathan6143]

@@rydacted6613 Terrorists rob banks, hijack airplanes into buildings and bomb marathons and subways. Superheroes and antiheroes such as Wolverine, the Punisher and Deadpool mainly kill terrorists, drug lords, dictators and hostile ninja clans on rooftops.

[@sofijeffrey9797]

That would be sick. The issue, to me at least, isn’t with stories about queer superheroes taking on oppression, but the idea that queer stories cannot be about anything but oppression. It’s a defense of the idea that there is more to the queer experience than simply being marginalized.

[@Durandurandal]

13:25 "We just wanted them to get the bad guys, not a venereal disease" Ignoring the hot women Superman and Spider-Man regular interacted with for decades, Bruce Wayne is, in the comics, *publicly known as a playboy*. He fucks. A lot. As part of the power fantasy of the character.

[@wingedjellifish11235]

"Merely that language exists [...] that is a sex thing." Wait hold up as an asexual linguist I am confused and concerned.

[@maxmolenaar3677]

Those cunning linguist fellas show no respect for the children by secretly making all language sexual

[@maxmolenaar3677]

I fear I too may have fallen prey to them

[@interiordagoth]

@@maxmolenaar3677 oh shid its too late

[@ozmarichardson6524]

As far as gender fluid Loki, they're refering to a neat little easter egg where on one of the pages of Loki's paperwork it said "gender: fluid" which is cannonically correct to the mythological character like you said

[@jupiterzombies]

true------- but its literally a blink-and-youll-miss-it thing. it was a publicity stunt, nothing more is shown in the tv series

[@fluidthought42]

@@jupiterzombies Well except for Sylvie and her repercussions in the plot

[@anakaliahaoa2551]

​@@fluidthought42 They don't get credit for Sylvie because they somehow made genderfluid!Loki, the concept, a heterosexual couple. Eff them. Seriously. Also, Sylvie's a "variant" who's deleted because... why? What makes her a variant for the "real" "accurate to timeline" Loki in the text aside from being female? In which case, Loki isn't genderfluid. Because if s/he was, Sylvie would be a totally normal Loki.

[@fluidthought42]

@@anakaliahaoa2551 I think it was a commentary on the nature of canon and how Marvel isn't exactly diverging but it is allowing for a more fluid canon. So a female Loki isn't canon (most of the time) but now is and potentially so is any other Loki (that aren't already dead). Same goes for the rest of the Marvel heroes, hence the Spider-man crossover thing that's happening.

[@chavaspada]

@@jupiterzombies didn't they (both Loki and Sylvie) also talk about their previous partners both male and female when they were talking at the train?

[@katyfive1]

purity culture (which sadly infects fandom and young ppl too) has always, always justified it with "think of the children" and always comes for lgbt first, who they associate with "sexual degency" because our society still has major hang ups with sexuality (but especially american conservatism/religiousness) edit: oh my god, your point about "this isn't serious it's comic books" as a defense, is word for word what happens in fandom spaces, where this is weaponized. someone gets harassed, and others try to raise awareness - then another person comes in and says "why are you all getting mad it's just silly fandom drama?" ...when it usually involves harassment and stalking, particularly towards adult content creators and lgbt creators.

[@naomistarlight6178]

I really enjoyed the animated series of Superman. I feel like I empathize with the idea of feeling nonhuman or otherwise different but not knowing how that difference will contribute to your success in human society, or hinder it.

[@surgeland9084]

Imagine making a living where you have to overreact to a drawing of two men kissing.

[@smartbug9811]

Anti sjw channels should've died in 2016

[@WhiteScorpio2]

That's the dream, if I get to do so in a positive light.

[@surgeland9084]

@@WhiteScorpio2 I'd watch it. You mean like "Oh my gawd! this picture of two men kissing is going to revolutionize art! this gay image is bringing our civilization from the brink of despair!". Yeah, that would be cool.

[@neolordie]

well, I can make a living of drawing them, so it's something to try

[@eropandasennin13]

I live for Jeremy getting dunked on. It's simple yet satisfying.

[@kraken_on_a_stick]

I hope you realize your Batman and Superman adoption dreams. Truly, I do.

[@BunnyDanger]

This eyeliner suits your eye shape very well! Your skills are improving so much, I'm so proud :D Keep experimenting with shapes and color, it's fun

[@User123456767]

Holy shit "a rise in sexualized cartoon characters lead to a ride in pregnancy" I'm fucking dying

[@crusty_bunny]

Odd how so many people who bitch about pronouns and not knowing what to call people anymore will then complain when people put their pronouns in their username or bio on social media. So we agree that its bad to not know what to call people, but also you don't want to be told what to call people... what

[@tempesttossed6029]

It's never about that. If it were these things wouldn't be an issue. This is all a fake argument to not have to admit that they never want to accept people outside of their narrow idea of 'normal.'

[@shonapushedplay4326]

My favourite is when Mildred talks utter filth but does it such a way that I'm always a second behind realising the depravity that just entered my earballs.

[@ViLeXSerpent]

Now I may not be the superman or the batman, but this enby is proud of you

[@ayyydriannn7185]

seconded

[@Mosstoad]

Can you be proud of me too

[@ViLeXSerpent]

@@Mosstoad Of course, you're doing so good 🖤

[@Upload098765432]

Wanting Batman to adopt you is a strange take. Several robin's that he has adopted have been brutally killed over the years

[@ThoughtSlime]

But superman didn't also adopt them

[@durnsidh6483]

​@@ThoughtSlime So you're saying it will cancel out.

[@thekbot1155]

I do agree that we should beat up people who make too many riddles

[@byjovecannibalcove]

'have a sexuality that isnt het' = 'sexualizing' = 'getting a sexually transmitted disease' = 'no longer fights crime'. everythings a slippery slope to ruin if youre a bigot! (m very charmed that this is at least the second time youve said you want superman and batman to get married. I agree. superbats forever. hollywood stop making them fight eachother love your new eyeliner!

[@Treegona]

16:10, and also 18:55 _Information on asexuality_ has been accused of sexualising children. *Like how the fuck.* 20:55, To acknowledge asexuality is to acknowledge people have any kind of sexual orientation, which means ~exposing children to the expectations of sex!! (also nice eyeball tiara)

[@DarkExcalibur42]

The "Loki is gender-fluid" thing is that guy being EXTRA petty. There's like a picture of the TVA's dossier on Loki that lists the usual stuff like name, alias, gender... etc. And whoever made the graphic, probably thinking back on Loki's mythological origins, listed gender as gender-fluid. But yeah, in the actual show itself if he is gender-fluid it's not really portrayed very prominently.

[@flask223]

True

[@RenaDeles]

There's also in the comics, but where... They actually explore Loki being gender fluid, and it was rad. But yeaaaah MCU hasn't done anything with it yet

[@thomasb7464]

Listening to this I'm just trying to imagine how effing groundbreaking "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" must have been back in '75 .

[@semi_enigma]

Somewhere there is a self insert fic where the reader is the adopted child of a gay superman and batman and I will find it.

[@darejohnson2251]

"Spider-Man has always dated every woman in Manhattan" I laughed out loud at the accuracy

[@fluidthought42]

Well it's definitely true after One More Day, possibly even retroactively?

[@Tacom4ster]

I forgot about this, who cares about what Dean Cain said? Any way checkout Jessie Gender essay on this.

[@TheEnoEtile]

Its 6am for me but I'm gonna watch this when I wake up at the crack of noon ish. Just boosting for the algorithm.

[@inkpenavengerYT]

Didn't Mr Quarterbrain ALSO complain about She-Ra NOT having big ol' mommy milkers in the reboot? These dinglehoppers, I swear...

[@LockandKeyHyena]

9:48 saving this timestamp because that delivery is just so good