The De-Gaying Of Superman II: The French Campaign
We really hadn't expected to get the chance to revisit our continuing coverage of Warner Bros.' Gay Superman Problem this quickly after yesterday's installment, but a generous reader who just returned from a trip to France has supplied us with fresh promotional material for analysis. It appears that the studio is so afraid of any further untoward discussion of the Man of Steel's publicly questioned sexuality that they're willing to exploit the French in an attempt to cement the hero's hetero image. Here, Superman is depicted as so disgusted by Europe's most potent phallic symbol (sorry, Peyronie's-afflicted Leaning Tower of Pisa!) that he's willing to fly straight into the ground to avoid its Gallic charm, perhaps seeking the more vaginal form of a chasm beneath the Earth's crust or the safety of its womblike, if perilously molten, core. Indeed, this seems like a pretty convoluted way of asserting that Superman is into chicks, but ad departments get paid a lot of money to subtly manipulate the public in this fashion.
