\u201c<\/p>\n
DC Comics has handed the keys to the \u201cChampion of the Oppressed\u201d to a guy who has dedicated himself to oppress me, and my partner, and millions of people like us. It represents a fundamental misread of who the character is, and what he means.<\/p>\n
It is dispiriting. It is wearying. It is also, finally, not for me.<\/p>\n
One of the other nicknames that accrued to Superman right away \u2013 that predates \u201cMan of Steel\u201d by a good amount \u2013 is \u201cThe Man of Tomorrow.\u201d And much of his early iconography bears a distinctive Socio-Realist, Diego Rivera vibe: a lot of burnished golden sunrises, eyes raised to the horizon, gazing into the future.<\/p>\n
Because that\u2019s where he lives, Superman. And that\u2019s what he says to us: We can do better. We can be better, to ourselves, and to each other.<\/p>\n
Hey, DC Comics? Be better.<\/p>\n
\u201d<\/p>\n
– <\/p>\n Glen Weldon, author of SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY, <\/a>twitter wit, and wonderful pop culture thinker and writer, on Orson Scott Card and his grotesque miscasting as writer, however temporary, of Superman. (via mattfractionblog<\/a>)<\/p>\n I was waiting for @ghweldon to sound off on this, and he does not disappoint\u2026<\/p>\n (via johnrossbowie<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n #<\/p>\n from Like a Detuned Radio<\/a> \u2014 February 19, 2013 at 12:41PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201c DC Comics has handed the keys to the \u201cChampion of the Oppressed\u201d to a guy who has dedicated himself to oppress me, and my partner, and millions of people like us. It represents a fundamental misread of who the character is, and what he means. It is dispiriting. It is wearying. It is also, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}