This weeks readings

The Holy Homosexuality Batman article that we read this week and the class discussion that we had made me laugh. I have never seen any of the Batman movies before but I would have assumed that Batman was a manly hero, not a homosexual. I guess that some of the things Batman and Robin do could possibly put them under suspicion for homosexuality. I don’t honestly think that the writer of Batman would have wanted people to think that Batman was homosexual. I think that a man sitting in another man’s bed rubbing his shoulders is quite abnormal behavior for normal male friends, even brothers don’t normally act as affectionate towards each other as that. I think that walking out of the shower with a towel on is not really abnormal for guys. I would not suspect a man as homosexual if they were getting out of the shower covered by a towel while other men were around. Maybe if he got out of the shower without the towel and Robin was watching very closely, that would be a little suspicious. Although superheroes do wear some super tight clothing that accentuates every single part of them, I don’t think that it is meant to appeal to other men. Tight clothing showing off their muscles just proves how much more powerful and heroic they are than other men. The idea that they didn’t show any part of the woman’s body as oppose to how much of the male body is displayed is kind of confusing other than the point that the superhero is the star and should be getting all the attention, not the human woman.