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Friday, February 20, 2009

Open Dream Journal #47: The Troubling Possibly Racist Overtones of Superman's Attitude Problem

Alright I was watching tv in this dream, and it was a Superman movie or tv show or something, only they had decided Superman was black now, which is fine. They're always switching stuff around like that. Except - he was really kind of a JERK. Very high and mighty! As if superciliousness was now part of the super powers package. It was terribly off-putting and gave a bad impression, at least in my mind. Why should white guy Superman be all aw-shucks goody-nicepants, but black guy Superman has to come all hardcore and haughty?

Frankly it troubled me that they would make those sorts of choices.

Oh yeah, and THIS was totally weird: He never walked on the ground. If he was going to come down from flying, to address the crowd or whatever, he would do it from the top of this gigantic pair of stilts.

Disturbing.

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