Always down with whatever

[seriousfic]

With spring break coming, I'm going to be working nine and a half hour shifts. Cleaning up after kids and teenagers. Oh, this is going to make me hate humanity, isn't it?

I read through Greg Rucka's run on Wonder Woman and it's made me so want to plot out the Big Gay Love Triangle between Diana, Io, and Artemis. So far, I've got two chapters and the certainty that while Artemis is all about the strap-ons, Io likes cuddling. It is a bit annoying how an entire arc depends on Diana's book being New! And Controversial! And not only is the book (what we read of it) just standard liberal boilerplate, thus matching the intended audience of the comic book, but due to the desire not to offend anyone (probably editorially mandated, true), the comic book's presentation of a controversial book is in and of itself completely non-controversial. The only opponents we see are Lex Luthorette (who hates Wondy unreasonably already) and a boo-hiss Jack Thompson wannabe. And inside the book, there's this kinda bullshit like a picture of a protest with signs like "No blood for oil!" and then a caption that says "Wonder Woman supports this kind of public protest" or something like that. No shit, Diana supports the Constitutional right to assembly? She'd better, otherwise it'd kinda be awkward for her to be wearing the American flag as a bathing suit.

And, of course, in the DC Universe, there was no Iraqi War, so I guess that sign should've read "No hypothetical blood for oil! Hypothetical blood for solar power! Hybrid cars rule!"

I mean, I can see why they did it, as if you make Wonder Woman into a gay marriage supporter, you'd have to turn another A-lister into a gay marriage opposer, and then everybody would be hating on them and the audience would remember that they read comic books to get away from politics.

So I kinda wish that they're given Diana a book that was genuinely controversial and given her some opponents who were realistic. Like some guy pointing out that her gods are complete jerkasses (you'd think the Richard Dawkinses of the DC universe would be all over that. In fact, I'd love a story where Scott Free and Big Barda get followed around by protesting atheists. "We didn't like the old gods, what makes you think we need new ones?"), or asking how a woman from an island with Zero Population Growth can talk about overpopulation or teen pregnancy and not be talking completely out her ass. You know, "the perfect parent is someone with no children" syndrome?

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[mcity.livejournal.com]

I mean, I can see why they did it, as if you make Wonder Woman into a gay marriage supporter, you'd have to turn another A-lister into a gay marriage opposer, and then everybody would be hating on them and the audience would remember that they read comic books to get away from politics.

But...Civil War! Every loved that, right? Right?

/hueg, flaming sarcasm