Anonymous asked: Yeah but Bendis took one of those blond blue-eyed white character created in the 60s and outed him as gay. Why can't you do the same for the Avengers? I'm really disappointed that even in the movies where they had 6 white straight Avengers, they chose to add two more white straight heroes.
Making Iceman gay affects one title, X-MEN. There is no solo series for Iceman and there never has been, apart from a limited series.
For the Avengers that you’re talking about, such a revelation would affect multiple titles, and there are long running solo series, in some cases many of them–which also means the amount of evidence indicating the sexual orientation of the character in question is far greater, and more difficult to plausibly overturn.
With Iceman, fans have been speculating for decades, back to the days when I was simply a reader, that Bobby might be gay. So while it was never something that was on the page, it was something that was in the zeitgeist. The same can’t really be said about Captain America or Iron Man–there are some who might like those characters to be gay, but that’s a far cry from genuinely believing that they are gay, if you see the difference.
Instead of complaining about established characters that in some way do not conform to your views, why not go out and make new characters that do?
If you want the Avengers to have Homosexual, BiSexual, Trans, MultiRacial, or any other classification of ‘not-vanilla’ character representation, then the only person that will make that happen is YOU.
Until then, complaining to creators about them not writing Characters the way that YOU want them to do so is just whining.
I am not saying your wants/complaints are invalid.
I am saying that change is not achieved through complaint. Change is achieved through proactive efforts on the part of the complainant(s).
As the saying goes ‘Stop Bitching and Start a Revolution’.
It has a built in safety net too: if you are right, and a large enough subset of the fan base is awaiting representation, than this hypothetical series will sell. If the fan base is not there, it is because the story is not good, or you misjudged your readership.
Either way, figuring out those problems will be YOUR task, not some dude on a blog that you send a message to whenever things do not happen the way you want them.
Stop Bitching. Start a revolution.
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teaberryblue said: I don’t know about that, Tom. Peole have been speculating that Tony is bi for as long as I’ve been a reader. Tony’s the one character that a lot of people assume is intended to be bi and it’s simply not explicit, particularly post-Tiberius Stone.
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