If you go to the DC comics message boards, half of the posters are queer. They openly lobby the editors at DC to have characters “come out of the closet”, and DC happily obliges, a ‘la the lastest bat-character, Batwoman. There are several queer writers on DC’s staff, and they make no bones about what they’re trying to do.
There’s already talk by some DC writers of making Wonder Woman at least bisexual, if not an outright lesbian, on the grounds that Paradise Island has no men, and they “have to get their sex from somewhere, right?”.
Actually though, sexuality has taken a backseat of late to race at DC, because of all the controversy they’ve caused by killing off white superheroes and replacing with minority characters. The Atom is an Asian now, Blue Beetle is a Mexican kid, Firestorm is a black kid now, etc. The complaint is that rather than making new minority characters, DC is simply taking the “there’s too many white guys” approach.
If you want to know anything about the political makeup of DC’s writers, one of their staff writers is Judd Winick. He was on MTV’s The Real World some time back...he was the best friend of aids patient that died. His politcs go farrrr left, and he’s a prominent writer there.
Sad. The appeal of comics when I read them (way back when dinosaurs roamed) was their innocence. The hero (before he donned his superhero costume) would say things like Great Scott! and “Gee!”
They used to be for kids.
Now they’re turning into outlets for left wing, new age thinkers. I mean, come on...Spider-man, they now say, didn’t get his powers from that radioactive spider, after all! The new line is that there is this spider god, see, and he wanted Peter to be next in line. Recently, they had him die and “evolve” into a higher species of spider.
Sigh.
I always assumed Wonder Woman was lesbian. Partly for the reason given, and partly because most men would be too intimidated to have a relationship with her.
I always thought that the ONLY man that the Bionic Woman could EVER have had a successful relationship with was the Bionic Man.
And that Buffy could never really have a boyfriend other than a turned-to-good vampire.
DC had a lead editor/staffer who was out of the closet and influencing the corporate direction.