Superman & Lois having a son is wonderful and it would even better if they had more kids but I don't want any Superman successors to be their offspring. They can have the family crest but not the Superman name.This is a ridiculous comment that highlights just how strong the whip lash is regarding how both DC and fandom treats Lois Lane.
For decades, fans of Lois have been subjected to near relentless misogyny directed towards her and about her. She’s not good enough for Superman. She’s too bossy. She’s a ****. They shouldn’t be married. They shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. They should be infertile. She should die. Undo the marriage. She’s weak. She’s useless. She’s nothing but a damsel in distress. She’s mean. She isn’t worthy of him. She should appear less. She’s too old. She’s not as hot as Wonder Woman or Lana. Kill her off. Kill her pregnant. Kill her in every AU. Take her son from her. Make her infertile and then kill her off and give him kids with another woman just to really rub it in.
We’ve heard it ALL. The Lois fans have heard every last misogynist insult against her for decades. We’ve seen her crapped all over, shunted out of her own books and just generally degraded publicly by men within WB and DC for years. But NOW. Now it’s all about how she’s the greatest journalist in the world and this is nepotism and her son doesn’t “deserve” to carry the mantle that she helped build.
I call BS on this. As both a long time defender of Lois Lane and as a MOTHER myself. BS.
You can’t have it both ways. The fandom doesn’t get to spend literally decades abusing this female character to the point that her fans have become so jaded and braced for the misogyny that we just expect it now and then turn around and frame her son this way as some example of privilege. It’s not fair, it’s not accurate and it’s not the history.
Jon Kent ::is:: a miracle. He’s the child of a couple previously deemed infertile by a lot of sexist, crappy writing about both infertility and marriage. The very fact that he exists given all the YEARS Lois was punished by writers and fandom as some useless woman who would “surely die during sex” or AU’s where she was killed by her own child or games where she was murdered pregnant. It’s a miracle Dan Jurgens was able to give her a son that DC didn’t use against her in some vicious way. It’s a miracle we have actually overcome years of this crap and guess what? The jokes about how she should be dead and Jon shouldn’t exist bc she should be infertile are still all over the internet which is disgusting.
Nepotism is not simply the idea that you follow in a parents’ footsteps. It has to do with actively disenfranchising more deserving and qualified people from an equal opportunity. You cannot and should not weaponize legitimate social justice language and then misuse it as you do here. Superman is not a job that people apply for it’s a FAMILY crest with a Family symbol on the chest. It is not Harvard.
Superman is not a mantle that Clark Kent EARNED anymore than anyone else. Which btw is fine! He became Superman because it was an extension of his heritage from the House of El and a way to use his extreme physical gifts to help people in need. Kara did the same when she chose to wear the family crest. Neither of them needed to earn the right to wear their family shield and help people in need—-they chose to do it because it was the right thing to do.
Jon Kent has just as much right to wear his family’s crest on his chest as his father and cousin did. That is his heritage too. It belongs to him as it would anyone from the House of El. He has every right to wear a symbol that not only is his heritage but also a mantle that his mother helped build with honor. That is not nepotism. He doesn’t need to earn his heritage anymore than Clark or Kara did—it belongs to him and can’t and shouldn’t be stolen.
How Jon will operate in this role remains to be seen. He may fail, he may succeed. We have no idea yet. Which is the point of this story, I suppose. To watch him try. But it’s most definitely not ok to reframe the decades of relentless misogyny that both Lois and their relationship endured and how it distinctly tied to kids like this. I’m an infertility survivor myself and I take it extremely personally that you would attempt to erase just how insensitively that issue had been handled by DC Comics for years on end. Maybe you just genuinely don’t know all this history? I don’t know. But you should step back here and think about it.
There is a lot of desperation involved for those of us told we can’t have children. The way DC Comics handled Lois and Clark’s fertility over the last few decades was ::genuinely:: triggering for some people. And just because you personally don’t ::understand:: that does not make it not real.
I can't say anything else because I don't understand 90% of what you said.