LurkerJ said:
If a straight friend of yours dropped by today and told you he experimented with a guy and enjoyed it. And now he thinks he is ready to play for both teams, does that make him a different person? is that a big deal? does that make him a cat? If it does, forget what I said about helping people worldwide. We still need this kind of exposure in our so-called progressive countries. |
This is not the same. First of all, I would be rather surprised if someone I had known for 40+ years (a more accurate comparison than any random friend, because Spiderman has existed for a loooong time) and had never shown any signs of being anything other than straight discovered that he was pansexual. If it's a big deal? Yes it kinda is, one's sexuality is a really friggin big deal!
However this isn't my friend we are talking about, this is a fictional character with certain traits. Do you agree with me that a characters sexuality is a part of that characters traits? If you do, do you think we should change a characters traits to fit with what some people want? I think if a character changes, it should be because the creator of said character wants the character to change, and it should change according to what the creator wants.
No it doesn't make him a cat lol 
For the record, I just thought his post was really funny, that was why I said he "won the thread". Because it made me laugh.
Heck, I'd be okay with them creating a new incarnation of Spidey (other than the 616 (?) one that was pansexual, but don't change the characters that exist.
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Andrew doesn't just talk about Spidey, he says every superhero should be pansexual. It certainly doesn't help his argument. That's like saying every character should be black to support race diversity. Pansexuality is still a set sexuality, even though it's based on falling in love with a persons personality, ignoring his/her/transsperson/etc.'s gender, so it would be ridiculous to do that for the sake of......whatever this is for the sake of.
