Posted on 05/24/2016 4:13:48 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Earlier today, SJWs on Twitter managed to get their demands for a gay Captain America to trend.
Here's an article:
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The thing about these "let's make this super hero gay" campaigns is that 99.99 percent of everyone calling for it doesn't actually read or watch Super Hero stuff anyway. We're talking about the most neurotic people on Earth who are literally offended by everything. These are the people I met at university who would randomly tell me that they wished their own parents would die. These people merely keep pushing and pushing their bizarre agenda to the point that they manage to convince major companies that they actually represent some kind of mainstream consensus. Then that company, utterly deceived, panders to these people only to see their sales plummet. The social justice warriors don't care since they don't read comic books anyway. They read Mother Jones and complain about their therapists. (I'm not joking. I've met a large number of them.)
There are dozens of gay super heroes already, it's just that none of them are very good or as popular as the "white cisgender males" like Superman or Batman. Well, Superman reads like Super-Obama lately--which doesn't seem to be very well received-- but they're planning to kill him and replace him with the classic Superman version anyway. (In the DC universe, classic and "modern" Superman are two distinct individuals.) The obvious reason: sales are awful.
Let's face it. Teenage boys--which is what these comic books are geared to-- don't want to read about a gay Captain America or a social justice Superman, no matter how much the cultural Marxists shove this material down their throat. That's why sales of both DC and Marvel Comics have been plummeting, while their relatively unmolested (by social justice ideology) films are the only things making substantial money now.
The only positive thing to take away from this is that the in-your-face agenda pushing has served to only drive away the viewing public. Perhaps we've reached a point of saturation where all the old methods of social subversion, which have successfully made gay marriage an acceptable thing for half the country, are now starting to backfire like never before. Only time will tell for sure.
Ironically, Captain America is one of the few superheroes that doesn’t wear a gay spandex fetish suit.
I bought some comics for my kid a couple of weeks ago. They were five bucks a pop. Yikes.
sexual communism needs to go already.
If liberals had their way, society would be what the “goobacks” were on South Park.
Of course they do...
These people have waaaayyyyy to much time on their hands.
Keep in mind that the original Wonder Woman series had serious, definitely unsubtle, BDSM overtones.
I thought that’s why DC hired Afflec ?
Belly Girl? I hadn’t thought about the Protest Warriors counter-protest group in quite a while. BG appears to be alive and kicking. 13 years older and living a normal life. I’ll not post links out of respect for her privacy.
No, damnit, they already got Dumbledore!
;)
Nailed it days ago...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3432518/posts?page=9#9
No way the nutcases would refrain from going there.
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Why not have a new Marvel hero: the first black American President. He can be a closet homosexual who works hard to tear down down America by imposing his gender queer policies on its schools and military.
Great to hear!
The PW group was great. Freepers in Arms.
Things are going to get loud in a few months. Hope to see them again.
God Bless
Comics don’t sell. If you look at a chart, the highest sellers are around 140,000 copies. That wouldn’t be a lot of readers if that was a measure of sales to end-users, but that’s actually what is sold to stores with no info on how many copies they actually sell. I think the Star Wars comic hit a million sales to stores, but that was requiring each store to order a lot more than they could possibly sell in order to get expensive variant covers. Plus, a bunch of retailers like Disney stores that don’t usually traffic in comics bought copies. I imagine there are a lot of Star Wars comics rotting in boxes around the country.
That’s a good way to kill off an iconic character.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. The masses, or herd, are easily shepherded into whatever corner the shepherd wants them. There are just way too many idiots in this world.
The mentally ill keep making unreasonable demand after unreasonable demand.
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