Joanna Robinson, a tiresome leftist hack, hacks tiresomely at the new Captain America.
So while Marvel was likely never going to make the homoerotic subtext of Cap and Bucky into text, would it really have hurt to keep their relationship more ambiguous? As if to put the nail in the coffin of speculation, Bucky and Cap paused for a moment in the middle of snowy Siberia to reminisce about their days chasing skirts in pre-War Brooklyn. It’s a sweet, human bonding moment but one that also bristles with heterosexual virility. If Disney isn’t inclined to give audiences a gay superhero, couldn’t they have at least left us the dream of Bucky and Cap?
There can be no entertainment on the left; only propaganda for the agenda.
I count this as a culture piece, not a political piece. So I’m not technically violating my self-imposed ban on politics.
Apparently Mizz Robinson didn’t take into account the possibility that Steve and Bucky chased skirts and got it on behind closed doors. Bisexuals get no love from either side…
“Intense male friendship as code for homosexual relationship” is an old reading. So old, in fact, that Tolkien got asked numerous times whether or not Frodo and Sam were in love and, while he shot the theory down, admitted that he could certainly see why some people interpreted them as such.
Oh for the days when the sexuality of superheroes was NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!
Meanwhile, the CBO reports that 1 of 6 young men (18-34) is jobless or incarcerated. The ongoing war on boys has left a lot of casualties but the “progressives” aren’t done yet.
These morons don’t seem to give much thought to the long term consequences of their human experiments, do they? Or, worse, they do and the destruction of human beings is the goal.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/09/cbo-nearly-1-6-young-men-u-s-jobless-incarcerated/
KCRob, they DO give thought to the long term consequences of their human experiments, and the consequences are always for the good!
Because if anything bad happens, they didn’t intend for bad things to happen, therefore it can’t POSSIBLY be because of their human experiments. It must always be the fault of someone else.
Kindergarten thinking.
Piss off, Ms Robinson; they don’t belong to you. Nor should they.
She sounds like a fan fiction-writing tweenager, terminally annoyed that her slashfic wasn’t canonised by the studio.
“There can be no entertainment on the left; only propaganda for the agenda.”
Another commonality between Progressivism and fundamental Islam.
These people have sex on the brain. Next, they’ll be postulating that Bruce Wayne behaves inappropriately towards Dick Grayson.
The answer to these people is very straightforward: “Yes, I can see why you would be desperate for fictional characters to be role models for LGBT people, given how terrible you and your fellow bigots make LGBT people look.”
Indeed, classical tradition says that both Achilles and Patroclus had female concubines and that Achilles was reluctant to slay a dangerous enemy she-warrior (the Amazon queen Pethesilea), not because he was too chivalrous to harm a woman, but because she was really a hot chick.
At the same time, of course, speculation about a homosexual component to their friendship goes all the way back to antiquity. So while there were some grounds for grumbling that the movie Troy totally ignored almost 3,000 years of were-they-or-weren’t-they speculation about Achilles and Patroclus — Shakespeare himself, hardly a postmodern SJW, acknowledged the homoeroticism — the complaint here seems to be that the Captain America film simply failed to validate the “subtext” that a minority of Queer comic-book fans claim to have spotted in the story.
You totally hit the nail on the head. #propagenda!