BL and comics fan. 🌈 ----- For those saying BL is "pandering to fujos! Too girly! It's fetishization!!!" --> https://www.fujoshi.info/ (a website with academic resources on Queer Media Studies in Asia and LGBTQIA+ history)
The queer body has been used as a battleground, has been criminalized, ostracized, and many times erased from their own histories. -- Alesha Byrne (University of San Francisco)
That's my read. Him being straight didn't help his luck in 2010s til now. The old Tim fans were burned by the Nu52 and the one's left aren't enough to support a solo or even buy the team books he was in.
Maybe this helps him stay relevant and appearing in books. Maybe not.
Not to get into too much debate over my views, but it is an opinion shared by many. You'all should remember that most people in the world aren't actually gay and thus probably can not relate.
It's simple comic book 101, characters people want to read about need to be at least mostly relatable. Just saying. No need to get all woke about it.
Last edited by Ying Ko; 08-11-2021 at 01:04 PM. Reason: added "at least mostly" to avoid useless nitpicking
Last Read: Aquaman & The Flash: Voidsong
Monthly Pull List: Birds of Prey, Daredevil, Geiger, Green Arrow, Justice Ducks, Justice Society of America, Negaduck, Nightwing, Phantom Road, Shazam!, Space Ghost, Suicide Squad: Dream Team, Thundercats, Titans
So I guess BIPOC and people with disabilities are straight out of luck and have to see themselves in able-bodied straight, white people? What about women? Why do children's books have mostly...children in them?
You can't relate to queer people? Seems like an empathy issue, and you're right, many people suffer from that deficiency.
I am fine with it...but to play devils advocate for a second, some people get upset about these things not because they are homophobic or racist...some just want their comics, adaptions to look and feel like they used to. I , for one, was upset that Barry Allen was not a blonde in the TV show at first. And I have brown hair as well. So it isn't that I hate blondes.
And just because someone else mentioned it...I do not understand why some people are upset that Barbara Gordon is paired with multiple Bat characters whether it is crossed media or not.
BL and comics fan. 🌈 ----- For those saying BL is "pandering to fujos! Too girly! It's fetishization!!!" --> https://www.fujoshi.info/ (a website with academic resources on Queer Media Studies in Asia and LGBTQIA+ history)
The queer body has been used as a battleground, has been criminalized, ostracized, and many times erased from their own histories. -- Alesha Byrne (University of San Francisco)
This is a extremely lazy form of representation on DC's part. Push Renee Montoya and Kate Kane.
I guess I should toss my Xena and Sailor Moon stuff cuz I'm not a queer female.