Posted on 08/10/2021 2:39:17 PM PDT by Bratch
because how else can you destroy a culture?
now kids that wanted to be batman and robin for halloween - an american cultural event - are off-put, not wanting to be identified with a sexual lifestyle symbol over a superhero symbol
because how else can you destroy a culture?
DC Comics is making Robin gay.
No, not Dick Grayson. He hasn't been Robin in decades.
No, not Jason Todd. He also hasn't been Robin in decades.
No, not Damien Wayne, the current Robin.
No, they're doing what they always do: they take a minor character and turn him gay.
He didn't used to be a minor character. He used to really be Robin. But Tim Drake, the Robin from the 90s, basically got ejected from the Batman timeline due to DC's half-assed reboot attempt. (They couldn't make a 30 year old Batman work while claiming four different Robins served under him, and Tim Drake got the boot.)
So DC doesn't know what to do with him.
So, of course, they made him gay, despite a previous history of unblemished heterosexuality.
There's one more wrinkle to this:
Tim Drake was popular partly because he was...
...the evangelical Christian Robin.
He was a believer, and belief was central to him.
So once again, whether by coincidence or design, a character associated with the conservative Christian right is made gay. Just as Marvel recently decided that Starlord -- played by conservative Christian Chris Pratt -- is gay too.
You'd almost think there is some agenda at work.
But they'll get their Smoosh Clicks from Buzzfeed and Vice and the Mary Sue and Salon and Slate and all the other clickbait promoters.
And that's all that matters.
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