DC toys - relaunching superhero as "openly gay"

[Gloriousgeorge]

Really?

FFS - that is taking things way too far IMO.

(and, no, before anyone suggests it - I don't have an issue with anyone's personal preference).

I do have issues with this tho.

Double standard ? Quite possibly.

........ hands discussion to the floor for debate ......

Which superhero?

What are you talking about?

.... To be announced. I'm guessing batman.

Is it Batman? batman is so gay.

Just been announced on "This Morming".

sponge bob square pants

Batman's totes gay.

And I've often wondered about CatWoman, but that's private

SpongeBob is just in touch with his feminine side.

i think it's brilliant! fantastic idea

What's your issue with it? Btw being gay is not a "preference". It's not like choosing between tea and coffee....I don't "prefer" women. They are just the gender I am attracted to. I prefer tea, but will sometimes have a coffee. I assure you I don't prefer women and occassianally have a man.

Heterosexuality is seen as the "norm" on tv etc. I have no problem with toys actually representing what is Normal. Gay is normal, therefore should be represented on tv, in magazines and in toys. Therefore, YABU.

www.dailynorthwestern.com/mobile/lasman-a-gay-dc-comics-superhero-could-provide-much-needed-diversity-1.2741436

How is it taking things too far? Being gay is not a personal preference. I'm sure that if superheroes were actually real, some would be gay, so whats the problem with the toys?

Cunning you made such a valid point but in such a funny way, I'll never look at my tea and coffee jars in the same way again

I suppose I'm just uncomfortable with this whole concept of kids toys being gay - dunno why - I'm not homophobic - in fact my nephew is gay and I don't have issues with that - but then do do suppose if he had had openly gay toys as he was growing up then that may well have helped him put his own world into perspective - so perhaps then this isn't a totally bad idea.

But then it just doesn't sit comfortably with me still - and I really don't know why.

I'm clearly very contrary.

How are they going to be openly gay?? Will they have interlocking willies and bum holes?

I thought Ken was Barbie's GBF!

I think the point is that superhero toys do not come from nowhere. They are based on comics (or graphic novels or whatever the preferred term is) with storylines, and DC will not have a storyline in which it will become known that one of the superheroes is gay.

I don't think they are going to be little batman doll wearing a t-shirt saying, 'some superheroes are gay - get over it.'

Sorry, DC will now have a storyline...

Is what i meant to type.

It's referring to the comic book not dolls, oopsi.

I'll be following this with interest. One of the things I've never understood is how comics work - it obviously isn't just sequential stories, new authors kind of re-write the same characters, don't they. I've tried reading Batman books, but not really understood what I'm meant to "know" in advance and what's fresh for this story. This looks like an interesting twist, Batman may have been written as straight in the past, or maybe he hasn't?