Month / May 2012

by crowfooted

Nothing But The Cape: Show Your Support for Marvel & DC’s LGBT characters and community!

starkexpos:

Hi Tumblr comics fans,

Let’s accomplish some social good today. The organization One Million Moms, who describe themselves as “a network of Christian mothers and grandmothers taking a stand for our children who are exploited by the entertainment industry”, have recently released a statement asking for a write-in campaign to Marvel (owned by Disney) and DC (owned by Warner Bros.) asking them to “change and cancel all plans of homosexual superhero characters immediately”.

This is in direct relation to Marvel’s first gay marriage in Astonishing X-Men #50 and DC announcing a reveal of a male, iconic character’s sexual identity being changed from previous incarnations. One Million Moms goes on to say things like,

Children desire to be just like superheroes. Children mimic superhero actions and even dress up in costumes to resemble these characters as much as possible. Can you imagine little boys saying, “I want a boyfriend or husband like X-Men?”

This is ridiculous! Why do adult gay men need comic superheroes as role models? They don’t but do want to indoctrate impressionable young minds by placing these gay characters on pedestals in a positive light. These companies are heavily influencing our youth by using children’s superheroes to desensitize and brainwash them in thinking that a gay lifestyle choice is normal and desirable. As Christians, we know that homosexuality is a sin (Romans 1:26-27).

This is yet again another example of the bigotry from close-minded individuals. Obviously they have no problem referencing Romans 1:26-27, but heavens forbid they take a gander at Matthew 7:1 (Judge not, that you be not judged.). I won’t even touch the stereotypical gender roles this organization is promoting.

What can you do? Easy! Let’s lets overwhelm their voice. For every email Marvel or DC receives asking to remove homosexual elements from comics, let’s send them emails congratulating them on the steps they are taking and showing support for their editorial and creative decisions. Tweet them and let them know you are proud to support gay characters and gay marriage in comics.

Contact Marvel

Contact DC

Marvel Twitter

DC Twitter

Marvel Facebook

DC Facebook

One Million Moms Twitter (Note: Let’s try to be civil when explaining why their bigotry is unacceptable. Sometimes it pays to take the high road.)

I hope this post gets some traction, so if you support this cause please reblog for a signal boost.

Nothing But The Cape: Show Your Support for Marvel & DC’s LGBT characters and community!

by crowfooted

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

W.B. Yeats, “The Song of Wandering Aengus” (via intotheimpossibledream)

When I read this, it came out to the tune of The Mummers Dance (Loreena McKennitt) (which I blame on “…go down to those shady groves” being close to the first line of the poem). It worked quite nicely. 🙂

by crowfooted

helens78:

pearlo:

I remember having a conversation a couple months ago with somebody (Intro?) where we were discussing some of the ways the movie fails at not being sexist, and they brought up the way that, you know, every single female character is at some point made to parade around either naked or in their underwear, and it’s not like that’s the case with any of the dudes. This scene with Erik is really the closest we get (and it’s pretty clearly, I think, presented in a way that’s not intended to be sexual the way the women are – though of course whether we reinterpret the camera’s gaze for ourselves is a whole different thing).

Anyway. Thanks for taking the partial nudity for the team, Erik.

Let me be totally prurient for a moment here and say: Wow, I hadn’t noticed this before, but apparently Erik’s side of the bed is the left.  (Er… as you are in the bed, not as you are facing it.)

Well, shit, we’re just not gonna be compatible, then.  Guess I’ll need to get me a Wesley (who sleeps on the right).  Or, presumably, a Charles.  *g*

(…man, now I want to look through all the movies and figure out which side each of their characters likes to sleep on…)

Based on what we can see of the layout of the room, the door would be somewhere on or right near the wall that the camera is looking from, which makes the left side of the bed the “safe" side (if someone busts through the door looking to do you harm, they have to cross more distance to get to you, as well as you being able to quickly roll off the far side and put the bed in between you and the threat). So I wonder if Erik chose the left because he prefers the left, or just because it’s more defensible.

Makes me want to see (secretly?)protective!Erik taking the side closest to the door so that Charles will be in the safer position.