This is so gay
May. 29th, 2009 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matthewdalyI'm not going to say much about the news story that Archie comic books are rolling out a OMGWTFBBQ story arc about Archie marrying Veronica after nearly fifty years of romantic tension or whatever. It's stupid, it's going to be a fake-out, the news media should have learned this was nothing more than a marketing stunt when Superman came back from the dead fifteen years ago, they shouldn't be covering comic book character news any more than they would cover professional wrestling alliance changes, Archie comics are the most irrelevant and worst selling comic books ever, and he belongs with Betty. Okay, I suppose I was going to say much about it. But it's not what I really want to talk about.
It seems that people can't blog about the subject without speculating without the slightest evidence that all of the characters are secretly gay for one another. I am calling specific attention to James Nicoll's site not because it is the most-read or the worst offender (although perhaps it is), but because I know him to be read by people who should know better. It seems to be quite prevalent throughout the internets, and it joins the normal chorus about the sexual habits of Batman and Robin, Ernie and Bert, Kirk and Spock, and so on down the line.
Seriously, dudes, what's the thrill? It's not challenging heteronormative assumptions to assume that fictional characters are not as they are depicted by their creators. Indeed, it is heterosexist to pretend that being a closeted gay person is boldly amusing. I will go so far as to suggest that it is a crime of power to force a fictional character to perform in a manner grossly contrary to his or her foundational motivations for your personal enjoyment. I'd like to see less of it in our world. None would be enough for me.
It seems that people can't blog about the subject without speculating without the slightest evidence that all of the characters are secretly gay for one another. I am calling specific attention to James Nicoll's site not because it is the most-read or the worst offender (although perhaps it is), but because I know him to be read by people who should know better. It seems to be quite prevalent throughout the internets, and it joins the normal chorus about the sexual habits of Batman and Robin, Ernie and Bert, Kirk and Spock, and so on down the line.
Seriously, dudes, what's the thrill? It's not challenging heteronormative assumptions to assume that fictional characters are not as they are depicted by their creators. Indeed, it is heterosexist to pretend that being a closeted gay person is boldly amusing. I will go so far as to suggest that it is a crime of power to force a fictional character to perform in a manner grossly contrary to his or her foundational motivations for your personal enjoyment. I'd like to see less of it in our world. None would be enough for me.
