{"id":17911,"date":"2014-07-09T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2015-12-12T08:16:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T13:16:39","slug":"the-pc-thug-superman-represents-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/the-pc-thug-superman-represents-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"The PC Thug: Superman Represents Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Superman once told villain Black Adam \u201cI fight for people that can\u2019t fight for themselves.\u201d Unfortunately we don\u2019t live in a world where there\u2019s a Superman that can fight for the weak and speak for people without a voice. There are still plenty of Supermen and Superwomen out there, but it\u2019s becoming so much tougher to find them these days.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to completely attack DC Comics, or go on a rage on why they\u2019re just moronic beyond words these days, but it\u2019s safe to say that DC just doesn\u2019t get Superman. Join a majority of the world, you corporate idiots. Superman is a superhero that is supposed to fight for people that are incapable of defending themselves. Mormons, atheists, gay, young, old, Christian, Muslim, Superman is supposed to be blind to any of these labels and defend someone when they need it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure in their warped minds they had a reason, but it\u2019s sad that they outright refused to grant Todd Boyce the rights to put the Superman symbol on the memorial Statue for young Jeffrey Baldwin. Baldwin suffered at the hands of four really awful people that left him to starve to death. Suffice it to say, I\u2019ll spare the details, but just thinking about how he lived destroys my heart.<\/p>\n

In 2013, my sister gave birth to two gorgeous twins, a boy and a girl, and I\u2019ve been doting over them ever since. I can\u2019t explain why, but my anti-baby stance changed once they entered the threshold of my apartment. They\u2019re amazing kids, and just thinking about them potentially suffering any kind of pain makes me suffer beyond words.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that DC wouldn\u2019t simply allow young Baldwin\u2019s memory to live on as a superhero through his memorial. Boyce likely wouldn\u2019t have sold shirts or merchandise with the S symbol. I\u2019m sure he wanted to afford Baldwin once last nod of dignity since he was so sadly mistreated and neglected. Suffice it to say, DC refused because they didn\u2019t want Superman to be associated with child abuse. But as always DC misses the point.<\/p>\n

Superman being associated with the memory of a young boy that likely tried to remain strong in his final days would have been a wonderful tribute. As I\u2019ve stated time and time again, there\u2019s a Superman in all of us. He represents power, courage, and endurance in the face of impossible odds. Despite his massive power, he\u2019s stood up to horrible people even more powerful, and bigger than him, just in an effort to protect others. Superman should represent how these horrific injustices to beautiful children like Jeffrey Baldwin never happen again.<\/p>\n

Superman should be there an emblem of hope, a symbol that despite the brutally sad fate of Jeffrey Baldwin, there\u2019s still some good left in this world. Jeffrey Baldwin apparently loved the character so would it have been such a horrible crime to let them us the S just this once, and with some guidelines? We can\u2019t really be this focused on selling comic books and action figures that allowing someone to give a dignified last nod to a child in need of a hero was so incomprehensible to them. Superman should represent everyone, most of all the people that needed a strong and loving guardian there to save them, and assure them that they didn\u2019t need to be scared, sad, or alone.<\/p>\n

As someone whose spent a good period of his life taking inspiration and strength from the character, as I walked in and out of hospitals, ER\u2019s, and surgery rooms, it pains me that DC doesn\u2019t practice what the character has always strived for. In a world where real life heroes couldn\u2019t be there, its heartbreaking DC pulled away this one last figure of hope and inspiration.<\/p>\n

I still like to believe there\u2019s some good left in the world. I\u2019ve seen it. I\u2019ve experienced it. I just wish we were more willing to bend over backwards and allow each other some dignity and respect. You don\u2019t need super powers or a cape to be Superman, you just have to be willing to give until it hurts, and DC could have given this one opportunity to a little boy that needed the Man of Steel.<\/p>\n

Despite this incident, I still think there are good, genuine people in the world. I still hold true to Jor El\u2019s declaration \u201cThey can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Superman once told villain Black Adam \u201cI fight for people that can\u2019t fight for themselves.\u201d Unfortunately we don\u2019t live in a world where there\u2019s a Superman that can fight for the weak and speak for people without a voice. There are still plenty of Supermen and Superwomen out there, but it\u2019s becoming so much tougher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,725,834,1007],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pcthugs","tag-dc-comics","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}