#wave-dancing-bottles

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wave-dancing-bottles replied to your photo “Here’s just one of the pot-pie-sized #reesespeanutbuttercups my fiancé...”

one of? damn!

Yep! Came in a 2-pack. :D

[soundssimpleright]

wave-dancing-bottles replied to your post: Like, it didn't even OCCUR to them.

*guiltily raises hand* still one of them.

lol Come on, man. Why would you even feel guilty about that? Just because you don't see gay ships everywhere doesn't mean you're phobic or anything. I honestly made the post because I know that my reaction is hardly universal, and it's funny to think about someone else occupying a completely different headspace from your own.

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raikolives replied to your post: Like, it didn't even OCCUR to them.

It’s not that odd, really. If the person watching holds no sexual/romantic attraction to their same-sex friends and never would they might not see that in such an “everyman” character either. And it isn’t something you associate with the time period.

Same-sex relationships among war comrades are old as time, so there really isn't much reason to not expect them in a story on the basis of when it's set. (For the record, WWII was HELLA gay.) Since homosexuality was illegal, it's understandable not to expect it in stories written at the time, but I'd hope that modern treatments of the era would do a better job of reflecting reality (ie anything not the equivalent of putting one's hands over one's ears and going "LALALALALA").

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wave-dancing-bottles replied to your post:I don’t really get Wonder Woman but man I would...

the one problem is that he would never be able to become Wonder Man because that’s already a Marvel character (Simon Williams), like how Luke Cage “Power Man” can’t have a female protege called Power Girl :(

This is true, but really the reason I would want a Wonder Boy would be that as of now there's no real incidences of women mentoring boys, and I think it's an idea that needs to enter the public consciousness. 

I remember seeing it pointed out that if a boy puts a poster of Hilary Clinton on his wall, it's a very different matter than if a girl were to do the same thing. I think it's dangerous, the way we treat masculinity as this fragile thing that can be weakened, tainted, or lost through too much contact with women or femininity. (If it's so "innate" in our biology, surely it can handle hanging out with female friends?)

The fight to allow women access to masculine traits and occupations continues to be hampered by men policing each other for signs of "womanly" weakness. As long as association with us outside of traditional (subservient) roles is a liability, men will continue to oppose (consciously or no) our integration into wider society.

Look at the hubub over Fake Geek Girls, or the recent startling revelation that female fandom apparently "killed" the Young Justice cartoon. Female presence, even female interest, devalues entire swaths of culture because boys don't want to be girls.

Giving Wonder Woman, the quintessential female hero, a male protege would send a very definite message: feminism isn't just for women. Can you imagine a warrior trained by Amazons to be anything less than a force to be reckoned with? Add the blessings of a goddess (which worked for Hercules, Ulysses and Paris of Troy to varying degrees) and you have a hero who could stand toe-to-toe with any of the Justice League's enemies.

Imagine him beating Superboy in single combat because he's sick of getting ribbed for his backstory, or defusing a situation with a few well-chosen words when Kid Flash and Artemis are at it again. In most cases, we don't need another white male character, but here the narrative fallacy of "white cishet dude as default" could turn an entire dynamic on its head.