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[theweaselking]

Despite opposition from the AFA, an SPLC-listed hate group with ties to terrorist organisations, Archie Comics are still successful when they present homosexuals in a positive light.

And, hey, this is Archie. It's not like you have to worry about them killing the gay character off.

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[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Honest, serious question - who the fuck still buys Archie comics?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Kids.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Also: I'd be tempted to buy that one simply because the American Family Association, a hate group (http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-family-association), opposes it.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Christopher Sims?

I've joked before that a comic that was really about "Mature Themes" wouldn't have swearing and sex and violence and other stuff teenagers like, it'd be about a guy who was really dissatisfied with his job and worried that he'd made the wrong choices and become a failure in his life while slowly growing more isolated from the people he once called friends. And that is exactly what this comic is about.

you sure?

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

Even Sesame Street gave a muppet AIDS.

Re: you sure?

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street strives to present reality in terms kids can understand and relate to. Dr. Loretta Long (Susan) gave a great talk here some years ago about using Sesame Street to help explain Real Life to children without overwhelming them. The most famous episode - when Mr. Hooper died - is still considered one of the best tools available when trying to help little kids understand death.

Archie, on the other hand, is very much idealized. Nothing horrible ever happens in Riverdale.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

"Homosexuality is a topic which is "too complicated" for children to understand."

Huh. My daughter had no problem with the concept when she was 4 and noticed her friend Rowan had 2 Mommies. Methinks it's only complicated when you have to explain why something that has nothing to do with you harms you.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

I never noticed my Monsters having any issues understanding it, either. (And Elder Monster, it turns out, is bi.) It was easy to explain: "There are all different kinds of love. Gay is when two men love each other or two women love each other in a romantic way." And the response from them was "Oh. That makes sense!"

They've always been acquainted with gay folk, and it never occurred to them that other people thought it was "bad". Now they're older, they are aware of the funditard view, and they think those people are stupid and wrong.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Actual conversation between my wife and her son, who would've been about 11 or 12 at the time:

"Mum, what does bisexual mean?" [He already knew about homosexuality - she'd taken him to the Mardi Gras parade a few years earlier, because she volunteered with an AIDS carers group.]

"It means somebody who can be in love with both men and women."

"Oh. Does that mean A. is your girlfriend?"

"Yes, it do- "

"Hey look, Mum, that shop has Lego!"

So yeah, Lego > "bi and poly". AFAICT that's pretty typical; kids only get worked up about sexuality if somebody else pushes them in that direction.

[snakey.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I still haven't entirely got my head around heterosexuality, and I'm in my 30s. >.>

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[lordbleys.livejournal.com]

I met one of the artists for Archie a few years ago. Their sales figures beat a lot of the superhero books out there.

Todays Gutters comic is about Archie, with an amusing look at this.
http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/262-amy-mebberson

[argaive.livejournal.com]

Vox populi, vox dei.

[elmo-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Dark Horse is reprinting the Archie comics from the 40s, which are filthy. I just handled the fourth volume at work, and in this one alone there's Archie in a diaper, Archie in drag, _Veronica_ in drag, Mr. Weatherbee handcuffed to a chair, Veronica in bondage being branded by Betty, Betty tying a hood on Jughead and paddling him, Archie in drag being dewigged by a naked old woman, Archie being used as a maypole by a quintet of Riverdalean nymphs, Archie in drag disguised as a nurse, Reggie in drag dodging Archie's advances and the butch girls' gym teacher, and a doctor and "menacing" nurse forcibly restraining Jughead.

But no, AFA, you're totally right. We need to return to the elder days when kids' entertainment was wholesome and inoffensive.

[I hope they sold a lot of war bonds with all that fetish fuel.]

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

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