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Slog Poll: Is Gayness Built Into Batman?

Paul Constant
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The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That's what cracks me up each time!
seattlestew on April 27, 2012 at 2:27 PM Report this
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This is just one of many weird, weird turns that Batman has taken over the years. Here's a list compiled by Cracked, with the "Rainbow Creature" at #1. And here's another. (They're totally gay-bones for Batman over at Cracked.)
Knat on April 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM Report this
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Ask MF Doom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qJ6wcyY…
skweetis on April 27, 2012 at 2:52 PM Report this
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My first sexual feelings, at age 3: watching a Batman & Robin episode (live-action B&W--that's what was on TV in Outer Mongolia in the mid-70's) in which Robin was tied up & hanging from something, waiting for Batman to come rescue him. I mean, come on. 
on April 27, 2012 at 3:14 PM Report this
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The Frank Miller Batman is actually so straight that he comes all the way back around to gay again.
Doctor Memory on April 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM Report this
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I believe the term is "confirmed bachelor."
Dougsf on April 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM Report this
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Batman has and always will be my favorite masked vigilante, he is also as gay as tangerines. I see no conflict here.
Xenos on April 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM Report this
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yo, anyone who voted for the last option is an asshole.
DeaconBlues on April 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM Report this
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With Robin, ya, but otherwise I'm not sure how Batman is more gay than the other super-heroes. Morrison is trolling anyway.
sirkowski on April 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM Report this
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More gay than Aquaman?
malcolmxy on April 27, 2012 at 4:52 PM Report this
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Wasn't this more than implied by the SNL parody, Ambiguously Gay Duo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAYcR8w_…
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on April 27, 2012 at 5:38 PM Report this
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Grant Morrison writes a damn good Batman ish, that's for sure.
Cephalodude on April 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM Report this
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Also, Oswald, as the voice of Batman? Blech.
Knat on April 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM Report this
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Will Brooker asserted he was in his Batman Unmasked, FWIW
UberAlles on April 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM Report this
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@11 Damn it! You beat me to it!
floater on April 27, 2012 at 7:53 PM Report this
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Eh... I prefer to think he's just not motivated by sex. With Robin, i.e. "boy I adopted and indoctrinated into my insane crusade (and whose crime fighting alter ego doesn't wear pants)"... there might be something sexual going on there but I'm not sure it's a good example of what we call gay. Creepy, hell yes. More pedophilic/self-aggrandizing than gay, though, I think.
Nitidiuscula on April 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM Report this
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I've always thought so. He's some rich bachelor who houses this twink who's a circus performer and no doubt has remarkable flexibility. He's always turning down Catwoman and ladies at cocktail parties.
bleepinbleep on April 29, 2012 at 5:51 AM Report this

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