Да, это всё ещё История.
Да, сегодня будет линкспам, и мне очень хотелось удержать всё это в его рамках, но увы.
Итак, мир реагирует на новости о сексуальной ориентации Алана Скотта.
Поехали.
Alan Scott: From Golden Ager To Iconic Gay Green Lantern - кто он вообще такой, какова его история и достаточно ли он крупная фигура.
Green Lantern and Alan Scott catch fire on Twitter - общий обзор реакций на твиттере. Лучшее и вправду вот это:
“I’m imagining Hal Jordan spending all day saying ‘No, not me, the other one. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”The Most Clueless Online Reactions To Green Lantern Being Gay - история общей обескураженности:
Another Post reader pondered what the revelation would mean for the Green Lantern movie sequel, noting: "Its going to make for an interesting 2nd movie. Ryan Reynolds certainly didn't play the roll ambiguously at all."Мнения и оценки. Много.Люди, которые скорее рады новостям:
Earth Two’s Green Lantern Is Gay OR People Who Didn’t Know Who Alan Scott Was Yesterday Are Mysteriously Outraged -
And for those of you who are upset about the change BUT don’t think you’re homophobic: Come on. If you’re THAT into Alan Scott as a character maybe you need to consider changing your sexual orientation as well. A minor change to a C-list character (despite DC going on about how a major, iconic character would be gay, Alan Scott is pretty low on that totem pole) isn’t anything to get worked up about.Great Scott -
As long as a positive message of diversity, no matter the intent, is disseminated and represented as much as possible then that is a that ultimately helps people and lets them know they are allowed to thrive... However progressive a comic book might be it isn't going to change the world in and of itself. Alan Scott being gay and Northstar getting married won't change anyone into a homosexual anymore than the Teen Titan Spotlight book featuring Starfire ended Apartheid. What it might do, hopefully will result in, someone feeling better about themselves in spite of what the cranks, superstitious, evil and simply backwards have to say to the contrary. Being gay is not different. Being gay is not evil. Being gay is not wrong. It just is.Alan Scott...? -
I don't mind in the least that Alan is now gay. What I DO mind...is that they have made him young... Comicbookdom is littered with young whippersnappers. EVERYONE has been reset as being much much younger, with the only exception oddly enough, being the actual YOUNG characters, such as Nightwing and Tim and Jason and such. It's a little odd. Not to mention that a whole passel of younger characters have been neatly swept onto a shelf and completely forgotten, such as Donna Troy, Wally and Conner Hawke.What’s Wrong With You? The Gay and DC Comics -
So what do you want? Accepting that nothing is perfect, I don’t see the harm in this compromise. They’re just not going to go full queer in the DCU, especially given today’s political climate on sexuality. They’re also not going to keep everything the same as it ever was ever for all time in perpetuity. Yet eventually, the tellers of stories, even stories told solely for the financial continuation of a multinational conglomeration are going to dab their antipodal feet out in one direction or another, and when it comes to comics, it makes NO ONE happy at all. Then when the thing actually comes out, and everyone immediately stops talking about it. DC Comics literally cannot win when it comes to making their fans happy.
Unless the story is really good, and then none of this part is remembered, and what is not remembered is often repeated.Why A Gay Alan Scott DOESN'T Bother Me -
"Just" create a new character, you say? Fine. Good luck getting it approved by the higher-ups. Good luck getting them to give the new character his/her own ongoing title. And even if you surmount those barriers, then good luck building a sufficient following among an ever-dwindling readership for the book to succeed past its first eight months, let alone for the long haul... Yep, I'm a brown-haired white guy. I'm also heterosexual and cis-gendered. Do you know what that means in terms of my representation in comics, particularly superhero comics? ...It means that I can find many heroes and supporting characters who share my race, gender, sexual orientation, and even my hair color... Even with the hair color, that's better representation than any GLBT character in the Big Two has gotten, especially recently. That's better representation than a lot of female characters have gotten, for that matter.Crisis of Epic Proportion: The Case of Alan Scott -
By the end of the day, I felt like scores of fans, men and women I’ve stood shoulder to shoulder with in line for autographs at conventions, just couldn’t let this be a good thing for comics... I get that with every step of progress, there is going to be a tinge of disappointment that there’s still a long way to go. In the days leading up to the reveal, fans had a laundry list of characters they wanted to see be “the gay one,” not the least of which was former Robin Tim Drake. The thing is, those who speak as if Alan Scott is DC’s one and only shot at portraying an iconic gay character so have it backwards. Installing a gay man as the leader of the Justice Society of America — the original super-team! — can only lead to more acceptance of gay superheroes in the future, not less. In no other media has the big debut of a gay character meant that other LGBT characters and stories would never appear. Quite the opposite, in fact... Straight (white) male characters still dominate the comic market because the roots of each universe are so firmly set in a time where women barely worked outside the home and there were still multiple sets of public water fountains. If and when the DC Universe truly looks and feels like the real world in which we live today — with racial, ethnic, and yes, sexual diversity — then I’d be more than happy to see a prominent gay character re-imagined for a new audience as heterosexual.
But we’re nowhere near there yet.Green Lantern is gay - That's a good thing -
The decision to make Alan gay hasn't erased his wife and two children from continuity. That had already happened as a result of Alan being made a younger character... After all that if you still consider Alan Scott being gay to be a bad thing, consider this. At least they're not still making the poor sod dress up like a giant lantern.
Люди, которые по разным причинам новостям не особо рады:
BREAKING: DC ANNOUNCES FIFTH MOST IMPORTANT GREEN LANTERN ON PARALLEL UNIVERSE IS GAY -
As much as DC was randomly homosexuallizing a character for attention instead of any real stab at sexual equality, they actually had a chance to make a statement here, and instead I really think this is a massive cop-out -- a cop-out made worse by how much DC promoted it like they were doing something at all "iconic." I’m Not Mad, Just Disappointed -
Robinson’s rationale was what made my reaction change from anger to exhausted disappointment... So I’m willing to believe that he was confronted with a situation where, as a writer, there could be no Todd, and he repaired the damage that caused to the DCU as best as possible... This is problematic because, of course, it implies that gay characters are essentially interchangeable, as if there’s a big spreadsheet hanging up at DC where as long as you can check off things like “Gay Dude,” “Black Woman,” and “Telepathic Green Martian,” you’re all good. Which, no... I’m glad Robinson said, “Whoops, no more Todd. That’s a shame. Why not make Alan gay?” But I refuse to celebrate it as some sort of bold new stride towards a more diverse DCU. Representing the world as it is – with a spectrum of sexualities and genders, races and ethnicities, ages and outlooks – doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, and underrepresented populations shouldn’t have to suffer because of DC’s poor planning.
DC Comics’ New Gay Character Is Green Lantern Alan Scott -
Checking the box and including a gay character in your universe, whether you frame them as a stereotype or develop them well or not, isn’t really enough to earn a company points anymore. And I actually think the somewhat disappointed reaction to this revelation is a good thing because it suggests that our expectations are getting more ambitious. If companies want credit for doing something different and genuinely brave, rather than simply meeting their basic obligations to represent the world around them, they need to tell stories or highlight kinds of characters that no one else has the courage to represent. Это, конечно же, не всё. Здесь, например, нет ни одной ссылки на на любое из многочисленных интервью, данных Робинсоном в последние дни (о, ему нравится говорить!). И последние события в комиксе означают, что скорее всего об этом ещё будут говорить. Мир - прекрасное место.
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10.06.2012 в 20:35QVall, Ангст, трагизм, целибат
Оооокей, и я сохраняю это для цитирования).
Но вообще да, тут хотя бы не холодильник.
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10.06.2012 в 20:41-
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10.06.2012 в 20:45Но он имел функции: Вы же сами сказали про поцелуй крупным планом!
А ещё он, это, национальное меньшинство, вот!
Вот сколько много функций!
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10.06.2012 в 20:51Ну, есть еще шанс, что в следующем номере они чудесным образом спаслись )
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10.06.2012 в 20:53хахахахахаха