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[abbey1227]

Thank you NPR.............we all knew it was just a matter of time before this matter of importance was resolved.

Batman's Sidekick Robin Comes Out. It Makes Sense, If You Were Paying Attention

August 10, 20215:01 PM ET
Glen Weldon at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2019. (photo by Allison Shelley)


In Batman: Urban Legends #6, Robin (Tim Drake) comes to a realization. Writer: Meghan Fitzmartin. Art: Belén Ortega. Color: Alejandro Sánchez.
DC Comics

Well. That's over, at last.

After 80 long years, the fusillade of sneers, slurs and innuendos are finally done with. For decades, homophobes looking to land cheap jokes and queer fans aching to see themselves in the comics they love have shared an unlikely common goal — to shove Robin, Batman's trusty sidekick, out of the closet.

And this week, in the pages of the DC anthology comic Batman: Urban Legends #6, Robin comes out. He rescues a male friend from the hands of a villain and experiences a flash of insight, a "lightbulb moment" — and later, in his civilian identity, accepts his friend's offer of a date.
Batman: Urban Legend 6
Courtesy of DC Comics

Some points of order:

1. This isn't the original Robin, the free-wheeling, acrobatic Dick Grayson introduced in 1940, who grew up and assumed his own superhero identity of Nightwing.

2. Nor is it the second Robin, Jason Todd, who famously died a bit (he got better, it's comics) and adopted his own, violent, decidedly anti-heroic identity of The Red Hood.

3. Neither is it the fourth Robin, Damien Wayne, Batman's son who was raised by an international cadre of assassins/eco-terrorists. (See above, in re: comics.)
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4. No, this is the third Robin, Tim Drake, the Robin who most resembles his mentor in intellect and demeanor.

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[Prometheus]

meh

[abbey1227]

Aug 13, 2021 4:11:54 GMT Prometheus said:

meh

I'm trying to think of a short list of the most iconic gay characters.

And then imagining the reaction if they were somehow morphed into and represented as overly straight characters. 

I'm reminded  of someone a long time ago insisting that "Everyone is at least a little bit gay."   I gotta say I've no problem imagining human sexuality as a pendulum that swings from VERY straight to VERY GAY..........with the BIs somewhere in the middle of that swing. Not sure where to place Asexuals in that, though.    

But I still think most people that have had a normal and somewhat healthy youth, end up swinging whichever way they feel best fits them.

[Prometheus]

Aug 13, 2021 13:16:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

Aug 13, 2021 4:11:54 GMT Prometheus said:

meh

I'm trying to think of a short list of the most iconic gay characters.

And then imagining the reaction if they were somehow morphed into and represented as overly straight characters. 

I'm reminded  of someone a long time ago insisting that "Everyone is at least a little bit gay."   I gotta say I've no problem imagining human sexuality as a pendulum that swings from VERY straight to VERY GAY..........with the BIs somewhere in the middle of that swing. Not sure where to place Asexuals in that, though.    

But I still think most people that have had a normal and somewhat healthy youth, end up swinging whichever way they feel best fits them.

Using your analogy, I would say that asexuals are the pivot point.

[abbey1227]

Aug 14, 2021 3:14:36 GMT Prometheus said:

Aug 13, 2021 13:16:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

Using your analogy, I would say that asexuals are the pivot point.

Thank you. I like that option very much. Whatever works between consenting adults

[Prometheus]

Aug 14, 2021 12:47:57 GMT abbey1227 said:

Aug 14, 2021 3:14:36 GMT Prometheus said:

Using your analogy, I would say that asexuals are the pivot point.

Thank you. I like that option very much. Whatever works between consenting adults

Or whatever they don't want to work... as is the case for asexuals...

[abbey1227]

Aug 14, 2021 23:54:42 GMT Prometheus said:

Aug 14, 2021 12:47:57 GMT abbey1227 said:

Thank you. I like that option very much. Whatever works between consenting adults

Or whatever they don't want to work... as is the case for asexuals...

Didja ever see this hokey movie called Circle of Iron? It had David Carradine as some sorta martial arts wise man.

Anyway, in one scene Eli Wallach was a man just sitting in a very large vat of oil........in order to get his yoo-hoo to dissolve.    It had been a source of problems for him so he wanted it gone.

[Prometheus]

Aug 15, 2021 0:04:25 GMT abbey1227 said:

Aug 14, 2021 23:54:42 GMT Prometheus said:

Or whatever they don't want to work... as is the case for asexuals...

Didja ever see this hokey movie called Circle of Iron? It had David Carradine as some sorta martial arts wise man.

Anyway, in one scene Eli Wallach was a man just sitting in a very large vat of oil........in order to get his yoo-hoo to dissolve.    It had been a source of problems for him so he wanted it gone.

I hope Carradine gave him a knife