Superman is a Dick

That's right. Superman is a dick. I stumbled on to the site Superdickery.com It's really pretty funny. The gist of it is, the guy who owns the website posts up scans of comic books, mostly covers, but some panels as well. His general thesis is 'Superman is a dick'. I have to tell you, it really does look like superman is a rat bastard. An interesting development, as he is often paired with Batman, and Batman is supposed to be the 'dark hero', anti hero if you will, and Superman is suppose to be the goody two shoes. There was one thing that horrified me though: how women are portrayed (I wrote betrayed the first time... Freudian slip...). If the fact that they weren't all shallow ninnies wasn't bad enough, half the time Superman is killing or beating them! The man who is arguably the most well known and beloved superhero in the U.S. is a misogynist dick! This one is by far the worst:



As you can probably guess by the art, it's a more recent comic (and by recent, I mean post WWII). Superman is pretty much implying he is considering raping this woman (is it Superwoman? I can't tell). Now, the master of the website admits (and part of the fun of the whole thing) is that all these scans are devoid of context. Basically, this might be some 'evil impostor of Superman' or 'Red krypotnite turns Superman evil' thing. There might be some kind of justification... but DUDE!

The rest of them aren't quite that bad, though this is a close runner up:



And people wonder why women are still oppressed? Because things like this show up in our comic books! These are things little boys read. Is there really any kind of excuse for beating or raping a woman? Especially when you're SUPERMAN and, you know, INDESTRUCTIBLE? I'm sure it's excused though, otherwise he wouldn't really be a super hero, now would he? He just 'lost control' or maybe she 'made him do it'.