DC Comics decides Green Lantern is gay. Remember when comic books were just comic books? When a boy could read his comic and dream about being a hero? And a girl could decide whether she wanted to be Betty or Veronica? No political agenda being shoved down your throat? Those days are gone. Comics are part of the liberal spin machine now.
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The author and his commentators' ignorance is simply staggering. Here is but ONE example of why positive representations of diversity needs to become more mainstream:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/01/16/clare_carter_investigating_the_brutality_of_corrective_rape_in_south_africa.html
It helps battle fear of the unknown. Fear of the unknown breeds ignorance, which breeds fear, which may lead to oppositional violence, manifesting in one example of 'corrective' rape of lesbians in South Africa (and elsewhere, I am sure).
Get on the right side of history. You call Obama's attempt to provide more equal health care to America embarrassing, I call your bigotry and disdain for human rights embarrassing.
Pointing out that making the Green Lantern gay is a more gay propaganda and we're sick of it does not equate to corrective rape in South Africa. I'm sorry, but your logic is just plain dumb - so dumb you don't really deserve a reply but here's one anyway.
Two things: one, if making the Green Lantern gay is truly about educating the ignorant, then get back to us when the superhero gets the HIV virus, visits a bathhouse, or commits suicide, because that's the kind of action which would honestly represent the gay culture; and two, how's that Obamacare working out so far?
Cyberbully, cyberbully!
I get grouchy when I wake up on the wrong side of history.
It's too damn cold (and I'm 8) snowblind) to put up with this crap today.
I was out yesterday and here in West Michigan you can ice skate down many of the major roads. At one point I was side by side with a Mercury Marquis (rear-wheel-drive car) and saw her slowly losing traction and her back end fishtailing around. I thought, "I need to get away from her before her rear clips me," and then realized even my front-wheel-drive had no traction. It was sheet ice. Luckily she got herself under control before clipping me or anybody else, but she barely made it up the hill on a major four-lane highway. It's so cold out salt is worhless and I think the county has already used up their gravel and sand piles for the winter.
Forget "the shadow government" it's the closet government and they are out and in control. http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2012/06/01/anti-israel-group-to-march-in-toronto-gay-pride-parade-this-year/
Hal Jordan - the "modern" Green Lantern - has a ring whose weakness is that it doesn't work on anything yellow.
The ring of this particular Green Lantern - Alan Scott - has a different weakness...
...wood.
And so continues the decline of western civilization. Once cherished symbols of American exceptionalism are either renouncing their citizenship, proclaiming their alternative lifestyle status, or turning into indecision ridden jokes.
No wonder our youth are confused, which is just the way the liberal / progressives want them.
That was an extremely well said summation of all of these postings, PH. Spot on. Brilliant!
Too bad someone would use a child's medium to spout their own deviant beliefs but maybe by all the posts of folks discussing the relevance of this comic book character over that one, this might be just a small expose into the mess this country is in. When I was growing up in the sixties my dad didn't read comics, voted republican and suggested I do the same and why. He also told me when I was in the seventh grade, "time to put away the comic books and other childish things, they are for KIDS". Time to grow up folks, the country is falling down around you. Just Sayin...
Reacharound and Bottom Boy?
''Wonder'' woman
So instead of Caped Crusader it's gonna be more like Drag Defender?
Instead of The Flash we'll have The Swish?
How about The Flamer?
Captain Queen?
Brown Spider Man?
Butt Man and Rubbin'
Don't even ask which part of Mr. Fantastic's anatomy will be elongating.
Yeah, and the art's getting worse, too.
I gotta make sure not to mix up Green Hornet with Green Lantern anymore now.
I know! Green Hornet was the Shizzle when we were kids!
Bruce Lee played Kato, and he was the best sidekick on TV!
Sidekick?
I think he just called you gay... not that there's anything wrong with that.
What is it with faithful companions?
Sorry, no. There was no indication that Kato was gay.
The movie was absolutely disgusting. The TV show was cheesy, but extremely entertaining. The movie was just wrooong...
Cheesy TV was the forte of the 60s. Campy, cheese dripping from all the edges. The Green Hornet had that super cool Chrysler Imperial and Bruce Lee. One season. The show was cooler than the Batman series IMO.
I gots to be real I love the 60's Batman series they were incredibly cheesy but they were all that. There were time when I almost wished I was alive at the time in order to have that "did you see it?" moment. I had a few moments like that with "The Twilight Zone" where I wish I had seen it when it originally aired in order to talk about it with people.
To this day I still love a lot of the 60s TV. The Irwin Allen cheese factory was my favorite outlet for action shows.
Well in that case you have to visit this little site:
Penny Robinson Fan Club
http://pennyrobinsonfanclub.net/
Actually, I didn't see the Green Hornet movie, but I tried to watch the Green Lantern, and couldn't sit through more than 20 minutes.
I wanted to see the Green Lantern movie last year but missed it. The reviews were awful and the box office disappointing. I wonder if they did this to create fadish buzz for a second movie? Maybe the Green Lantern could take up with Kevin Keller, the gay character from Archie.
Sequal - The Pink Lantern
The Green Lantern movie was JUST awful...
I watched the movie for about the first 4 minutes then flipped the channel. It would be good for insomniacs or the insane.