{"id":212837,"date":"2014-05-06T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/06\/superman-spent-his-childhood-baling-hay-on-a-farm\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:48:00","slug":"superman-spent-his-childhood-baling-hay-on-a-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/06\/superman-spent-his-childhood-baling-hay-on-a-farm\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Superman spent his childhood baling hay on a farm, he\u2019s a working class hero and people don\u2019t like that. Whereas Batman is a billionaire who sleeps until three in the afternoon, puts on a rubber suit and beats the shit out of poor people. Now that\u2019s a wish fulfillment fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Grant Morrison during a panel at the Edinburgh Book Festival (via operationfailure<\/a>)<\/p>\n

#i mean superman is wish fulfillment too but for two jewish guys wanting to help people they couldn\u2019t as opposed to like<\/strong><\/a>#taking out the privilege of the rich thru violence against the poor<\/a><\/strong>#it depends on how you want to define wish fulfillment<\/a>#but it is true: superman is a working class hero and batman is not<\/a><\/p>\n

(via anartinsorcery<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u00a0#\u00a0i guess it\u2019s worth mentioning that superman\u2019s narrative was (and remains) heavily coded but that fact is often lost on modern readers<\/a> #\u00a0to whom he appears to be an anglo-american masculine archetype and a perfect vehicle for wish fulfillment<\/a> #\u00a0you\u2019d think though that people would\u2019ve figured out by now that if straight white dudebros can\u2019t (or refuse to) relate to a character<\/strong><\/a> #\u00a0it\u2019s probably because they \/aren\u2019t serving them as wish fulfillment well enough<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0#\u00a0not because they\u2019re \u201dnot realistic enough\u201d<\/a> #\u00a0hence the popularity of batman<\/a> #\u00a0and iron man<\/a> #\u00a0and wolverine<\/a> #\u00a0and the overwhelming dismissal of PoC\/queer\/women heroes<\/strong><\/a> #\u00a0grant morrison<\/a> #\u00a0superman<\/a> #\u00a0comics<\/a> #\u00a0*isms<\/a><\/div>\n

(via twoxheartedxdream<\/a>)<\/p>\n

forever reblog, especially with those tags<\/p>\n

(via whenyourenotsavingtheworld<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Funny because I just argued about this point about Batman\u00a0only a few short days\u00a0 with a guy who, otherwise, is intelligent and well spoken.\u00a0 Yet, this idea that Clark is an \u201cothered\u201d figure was totally lost on him.<\/p>\n

This is why it doesn\u2019t just make me angry but actually makes me uncomfortable when dudebros get super excited about Batman beating the shit<\/strong><\/em> out of Superman.<\/p>\n

The last 3 live action adaptations of Superman\u2014-all of which found huge audiences\u2014-have particularly focused on this idea that Clark Kent grows up feeling othered.<\/strong>\u00a0 (In one of those adapations, Clark Kent was actually played by an actor who\u00a0is bi-racial and was abandoned by his father at a young age btw.)<\/p>\n

In several of these adapations, Clark Kent learning to accept his body and accept his heritage balanced with his intense love and identification as a human<\/strong><\/em> is not only a right of passage but the driving force of his identity and self-discovery.\u00a0 The fact that a lot of this self-discovery also often includes a human female<\/strong> who accepts him fully and without fear or persecution for his \u201cotherness\u201d is vital and important.\u00a0\u00a0 Superman is not supposed to be \u201cwish fufillment\u201d for all of your white, male privileged bullshit, guys.\u00a0 He\u2019s also\u00a0not supposed to be wish fufillment for those of you that believe that if you had Superman\u2019s physical power and looks you would obviously use them to\u00a0bang\u00a0the hottest girl in the world AKA\u00a0Wonder Woman.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s not supposed to be wish fufillment for your shallow, macho BULLSHIT. \u00a0He was wish fufillment for two Jewish men who longed to be accepted in a world torn with bigotry and oppression and longed\u00a0for the love of\u00a0a human working\u00a0woman that worked one desk over.<\/p>\n

So when I see people talking about how \u201cawesome\u201d it would be for Batman to come into Superman\u2019s movie and \u201cbeat the shit out of him\u201d\u2026.I\u2019m not just annoyed with you.\u00a0 I\u2019m not just angry at you.\u00a0 You actually make me uncomfortable.\u00a0\u00a0 Your thoughts about fictional icons and myths make me uncomfortable.\u00a0 I\u2019m uncomfortable with you taking a unique and special male icon that actually is meant to challenge<\/strong><\/em> oppression and bogging him down with your god forsaken privilege.<\/p>\n

(via dytabytes<\/a>)<\/p>\n

1. all of this is wonderful and good and ghostorballoons actually enlightened me to the fact that superman\u2019s original basis was the strong man, who is pretty important in jewish american iconography so even taking away his \u201cstupid underwear\u201d as so many people have wanted to do for so long (and succeeded) is actually an effort to remove superman from his roots as a jewish figure.<\/p>\n

2. who played superman that was biracial?\u00a0<\/p>\n

(via alienswithankhs<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Dean Cain.\u00a0 His background looks mostly flavors of White, but his paternal grandfather is Japanese.\u00a0 He was born in 1966 as Dean George Tanaka, but his wikipedia page says his mother married film director Christopher Cain in 1969, so\u2026 (Also Christopher Cain adopted Dean and his brother)<\/p>\n

Also Superman himself is adopted and an illegal alien.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not forget that.\u00a0 He accepts both his birth family and his adopted family as family and doesn\u2019t make one family more important or \u201creal\u201d than the other.\u00a0 He has both parents and they love each other and their son very much.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the typical adoption story that we tell, where the birth family is called the \u201creal parents\u201d and either the child or the adopted family is vilified.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

(via buttphantasmic<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Superman spent his childhood baling hay on a farm, he\u2019s a working class hero and people don\u2019t like that. Whereas Batman is a billionaire who sleeps until three in the afternoon, puts on a rubber suit and beats the shit out of poor people. Now that\u2019s a wish fulfillment fantasy. Grant Morrison during a panel … <\/p>\n

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