I Feel Like The Fact That Culturally The Options We Get For Heroes That Aren’t “Wholesome” (Aka: “Upstanding white dudes”)

Are the ones who aren’t that moral is actually creepy.

Like IDK the fact that you have hyper moral ultra wholesome Captain America vs unwholesome but also somewhat amoral Deadpool is kinda shitty.  People with tattoos and weird haircuts can give just as much of a shit about doing the right thing as all american apple pie types.  How come our superhero paragons of virtuous upstandingness are also paragons of masculinity every damn time?  (Superman, Captain America).  Anyone who’s not a chipper wholesome gender conforming as American as apple pie type isn’t allowed to be that baby-kissingly, old lady savingly, “I just want to do the right thing”ingly decent and good and even when they are that good they don’t get quite as much credit.  Superheroines don’t get the same brownie points for righteousness that superheroes do cause compassion is just expected of women.  Superheroes of color are more often treated as if fighting for justice is less selfless for them.  Gender non-conforming superheroes (like say Deadpool actually) are nearly always dropped in the anti-hero bucket.

That makes me sad.

TL;DR: What about a superhero comic where a character heavily based on Grace Jones persistently and unwaveringly does the right thing and is a pure cinnamon roll 

bigdicktribe:

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This is too cute

Yes, I love it when parents don’t demean blue collar labor or play it as some sort of punishment for sub par grades. 

“You better do well in school so you don’t end up as a garbage man… who provides an indispensable service to our community and serves as part of the foundation for modern society.”

also, hello gorgeous garbage men kind enough to pose for a photo with a kid

^

This probably made these guys’ day. A little kid who calls them his heroes? Not being shat on by society for doing a necessary job? Amazing

his face 😂

Also being a sanitation worker is actually very dangerous.  It’s the fifth most dangerous job in the US.  Significantly more dangerous than being a cop (which doesn’t even make the top ten), they often die or are seriously injured in the line of duty, also before we had sanitation workers numerous illnesses ran rampant (like cholera and typhus and all sorts of other horrible shit) because of all the horrible crap left to decay all over the place and in the water supply and everywhere.

They literally risk their lives to protect the public.

Heroize sanitation workers and not cops.