quote Originally posted by sourmash: The complaint is that he never was, but since they haven't proven that they can create a successful super hero that's a homosexual, they decided to pervert a successful one after the fact. New America sucks.

I dunno man. Someone coming out and saying "Robin is gay" hit me like someone saying "Liberace was gay". I would try to act surprised, while not actually being so.
Don't worry, gay Robin won't hurt you. It's gay Flash you'd have to look out for. That guy could do some damage, and you wouldn't even see him coming

I read up on a couple of surveys, and it looks like an average of surveys across several western cultural demographics shows roughly 7% of men and 13% of women identify as not strictly heterosexual. Given the cultural stigma of being gay, especially for men, I'm going to guess those numbers are low since a statistically significant number of people are going to lie due to cultural stigma, so they represent "at least" numbers, as in at least 7% of men and 13% of women in an aggregated group of western cultures identified as "not heterosexual". That means that if you take a group of 10 random men, one of them is probably gay. Superheroes are supposed to be "powered up" version of the everyman (everyperson?). That means, 10 random superheroes would likely include at least one identifying as not heterosexual. I don't think "gay america" is co-opting Robin, I think that they're just being more honest about the represented demographics, since they won't be crucified for doing so.

I'm not gay, but if had a gay son, for example, I think it would be nice for him to have a gay superhero to look up to. Sure, he can look up to all of them, but it'd be nice for one of them to be gay so he can relate to them. Same reason it's important to have a black superhero, or a superhero with a learning disability (and it would make an amazing movie - can you imagine an autistic superman?). The problem with making a new, gay superhero, is they'd always have "being gay" as their single biggest identifying characteristic. Taking an already gay-ish hero and having them come out means there's an established character that is also gay, instead of having a character that is gay and also is a superhero.

And since I'm already kicking the anthill... Look at a group of male superheroes. They're all incredibly well groomed, fit, and charismatic with excellent costume design. I'd go out on a limb and assume such a group of people would have a higher than statistically indicated percentage of non-heterosexual members.

To kick the ant-hill again... He-Man was pretty gay. Sure, he knew she-ra, but did you ever see he-man slaying tang? No, he was either in metal speedos hanging out with the boys and exercising, or prancing around his castle in a pink tunic with his giant cat. Fit, single guy, spends his time in speedos working out with only dudes, owns a cat, wears comfortable yet stylish pink jammies... That's pretty gay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQO0lUB8KY


One final kick - You know what's also super gay? Spending all your time perseverating about other people's gayness. People are gonna people. There are gay animals, there are gay people, there are probably gay aliens (gayliens?). So many deeply homophobic people come out as gay later in life that one of the gayest things you can possibly do is dislike gay people.

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I’m sure they’ll make Harley Quinn and the plant babe hook up… and what about She-Ra…

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