The Gay DC comic hero is...

[matt]

Anyway, back to the point of the thread, whether you like Green Lantern, or even comic books or not, I think it's a good thing to bring gay people into popular culture. Maybe because kids of today will be reading about gay Green Lantern, and XMen, etc, they won't be all weird about it when they grow up like most of my generation is, because they would have been exposed to it growing up, and from a super hero nogal.

[Graal]

Well you implicitly stated that being uncomfortable with male intimacy is the same as being uncomfortable with female, such that if you claim one and not the other then you are a hypocrit. I'm saying that's a false equivalence.

And you're missing the entire point of my statement, because being comfortable with something is not the same as being attracted to something.

There is quite honestly no reason to be placed at discomfort with the sexuality of a fictional character, much less a real person. You don't have to be attracted to someone to be comfortable around them.

I'm not attracted to big, muscular guys. Am I uncomfortable with them? No. Will I read a comic book with one as its main character? Why not?

Yeah, we seem to be operating on the purely hypothetical here since I don't think anyone in this thread has stated any sort of discomfort.

DCBloodhound himself said he won't read/watch it if the protagonist's romance isn't explored/involved.

As long as romance isn't involved or is kept to a minimum,i'll prob watch it.

I don't see any other reason for that other than being uncomfortable with the main character being gay. So if the main character kisses his love interest, he won't watch it despite it possibly being an amazing comic? So if you don't like a romance option, you simply forego watching the entire thing?

The only thing I took from his comment is that it is a stupidly homophobic comment dressed up in nice words. Basically, it's okay to be gay, as long as it's hidden.

[DCWarhound]

And you're missing the entire point of my statement, because being comfortable with something is not the same as being attracted to something.

There is quite honestly no reason to be placed at discomfort with the sexuality of a fictional character, much less a real person. You don't have to be attracted to someone to be comfortable around them.

I'm not attracted to big, muscular guys. Am I uncomfortable with them? No. Will I read a comic book with one as its main character? Why not?



DCBloodhound himself said he won't read/watch it if the protagonist's romance isn't explored/involved.



I don't see any other reason for that other than being uncomfortable with the main character being gay. So if the main character kisses his love interest, he won't watch it despite it possibly being an amazing comic? So if you don't like a romance option, you simply forego watching the entire thing?

The only thing I took from his comment is that it is a stupidly homophobic comment dressed up in nice words. Basically, it's okay to be gay, as long as it's hidden.

I'll eat pizza as long as it doesn't have any vegetables toppings or at least if they are kept to a minimal.

Definition of homophobia:

Homophobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear.[1][2][3] In a 1998 address, author, activist, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King stated that "Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood."[4]

Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of non-heterosexual orientations.[1][2] According to the 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics released by the FBI National Press Office, 19.3 percent of Hate Crimes across the United States "were motivated by a sexual orientation bias."[5] Moreover, in a Southern Poverty Law Center 2010 Intelligence Report extrapolating data from fourteen years (1995-2008), which had complete data available at the time, of the FBI's national hate crime statistics found that LGBT people were " far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crime."[6]

Forms of homophobia vary on where they come from and where they are directed. Institutionalized homophobia (e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia)[7] comes from a culture, whereas internalized homophobia – a form of homophobia experienced by a person who has same-sex attractions, regardless how they identify, focusses on the internal regardless where the feelings and attitudes came from. Other related forms of homophobia are lesbophobia[8] – the intersection of homophobia and sexism directed against lesbians, and biphobia directed at bisexual people. Transphobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexualism and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender identity . Many trans people also experience homophobia from people who associate their gender identity with homosexuality.

Taken from Wikipedia.

If i get offered a choice between chocolate,strawberry or bubblegum milkshakes and i choose chocolate over strawberry and bubblegum,what would i be?

A bubblegumphobe/strawberryphobe?