• Catwoman is officially bisexual
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As others have said, it was pretty obvious that she was a bisexual and it didn't really need to be spelled out. Still, at least now comic book nerds can stop arguing about her sexuality. Now the cat is out of the bag.:v:
I hope they don't try to shoehorn a bunch of unfitting tasteless references to it like they did with that Thor comic. It's fine to be a character trait, it's fine to acknowledge it, but treat the subject with some amount of respect for christ's sake.
[QUOTE=Lord_Ragnarok;47239164]I was trying to be funny[/QUOTE] Me too. Would he be called Yellow Lightning?
And?
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;47234615]and, surprise surprise, most of the people who bitch and complain about "useless" changes like catwoman bi were probably represented plenty when they were growing up so they don't see the significance.[/QUOTE] Sexuality is not heavily defining of someone's character. Their integrity, morality, personality and wants/needs are by far the most important. It can add definition IF it's relevant at the time but just randomly throwing a trait on someone for no reason other than to generate buzz is lazy and essentially treating your audience like idiots. Representation matters but you actually need to write a good fucking character or you're doing more harm than good. The quality of writing in a piece of media surpasses absolutely everything.
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;47238493]I don't buy this "There must always be a Captain America". It's like the NBA saying "There must always be a Michael Jordan". They should just retire his name and his costume, put it in a hall of fame like justice league does.[/QUOTE] but captain america is a title, michael jordan is a name, and there's been plenty of different caps anyway
[QUOTE=Zeke129;47235230]It would be weird if comic book writers started inserting themselves into the comics[/QUOTE] Looks like someone has no idea who Grant Morrison is.
[QUOTE=spekter;47239564]Sexuality is not heavily defining of someone's character. Their integrity, morality, personality and wants/needs are by far the most important. It can add definition IF it's relevant at the time but just randomly throwing a trait on someone for no reason other than to generate buzz is lazy and essentially treating your audience like idiots. Representation matters but you actually need to write a good fucking character or you're doing more harm than good. The quality of writing in a piece of media surpasses absolutely everything.[/QUOTE] I'd agree with you if it was obviously tacked on, but seriously everybody knew. They've known since the Big Bang, when the universe was formed. That's not bad writing if they bring it up now.
[QUOTE=redBadger;47233810]I fully support LGQT or whatever order it goes in but do comic books seriously have to start making everything "equal". It's like they're trying to find an excuse to make a character gay or bi or whatever or to try and give them a transsexual or transracial treatment.[/QUOTE] I wanna talk about this in particular as a Bisexual guy; nothing in this world really pisses me off in the same way shit like this does, the cheap as fuck 'we're progressive!!' appeal shitty comicbook makers are trying to make. If you're going to write a character seriously then don't make a character with decades of established history be like 'I like both now!' it's boring, reeks of executive meddling and is just fucking insulting that they'd try to use a serious aspect of so many people's lives for a quick controversy buck.
[QUOTE=archangel125;47241323]I'd agree with you if it was obviously tacked on, but seriously everybody knew. They've known since the Big Bang, when the universe was formed. That's not bad writing if they bring it up now.[/QUOTE] If they make a big show and dance about it in the comic then yes it is. It was subtle before and it should stay that way.
[QUOTE=nnanna;47234248]honestly it might sound like a stupid thing but lgbt representation in media is VERY important for lgbt kids especially when growing up, helps them all not have to deal with stuff like for example internal homo-, transphobia when growing up cause not seeing people like themself anywhere makes it seem like being lgbt is a bad thing.. especially when we already have bunch of other people being very negative towards lgbt things/people i'm pretty happy to see comics adding stuff like this and actually making it clear and canon[/QUOTE] Well as long as it's the author's initiative I think that's really commendable, especially if it adds to the story and is well written. I hope there won't be any external groups trying to pressure artists into conforming to their vision, though, like with the whole spiderwoman fiasco. Artistic integrity should take precedence IMO.
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