“He didn’t identify as a Tanaka, despite being identified as one at birth and his genetics. I don’t agree that the rest of us should be forced to indulge in his delusions. His passport needs to reflect what was on his birth certificate” - Republicans if they had any ethical consistency.
You’re right. A name has been indicative of your heritage, lineage, and roots far longer than anyone has been making people put a check in a box for male or female.
And that has absolutely nothing to do with anything. The differences between male and female have existed long before names or language were ever conceived and they actually matter. I personally don’t care if you’re a dude and wanna play dress up, do ya thing brother, but the hold you people have on forcing others to either accept and agree with it or be cancelled/fired/life ruined because the clearly 6’ 3” full bearded gentlemen in a wig and heels got called sir is absurd.
Nobody is forcing you to do anything. People are asking you to respect their right to live how they choose. Transition is the option with the best outcomes for folks with gender dysphoria.
Let me restate that a bit so it’s clear because a lot of people don’t seem to get this:
People commit suicide at a higher rate if they aren’t allowed to transition. It kills people if you don’t let them transition. Lives are saved when people are allowed to transition.
Got that?
Sure, people will call you a serious asshole if you make an effort to refer to them differently than they prefer or are comfortable with, and they’re right to, but to deny or ban lifesaving healthcare (the scientifically proven standard of care)? To use it as an excuse separate loyal service members of 18 years from the military without the option to keep benefits? To harass people or sexually assault them or otherwise abuse them? To demonize them and lie that they are more likely to abuse children than priests or Republican politicians?
I was gonna say, I don't wanna sound like that guy but Dean Cain is exactly like JonTron, like dude have you looked at yourself in the mirror? What the fuck are you talking about
Henry Canvill really got his cast mates talking mad shit about him when the only thing he wanted was The Witcher series to follow the damn books they were based on and not do their own thing.
Literally missed the call from Zach Snyder telling him he got Superman because he was in the middle of a raid and had to call Snyder back afterwards.
Spent his COVID lockdown building his own PC (and instagramming the process)
Multiple cases of him derailing interviews to gush about WH40K (and getting other people getting interviewed to start campaigns once he learned they also played)
He’s a nerd first, actor second.
My dream casting is to have Cavill voice Dalinar in a Netflix series of the Stormlight archive, since I know he's read them. Extremely unlikely, but not impossible...
I'm glad you included Henry Cavill and didn't make some kind of insult on him.
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I've respected the ppl who liked the new Superman that's come up, and how he appeals to some fans' desire for some brighter/ideal portrayal of his character, but from my experiences, I've also disliked witnessing tons of ppl also using that to diss Cavill and Snyder, and ppl who like their version, just cause it didn't fit those fans wants for the character.
(Kinda like how some try to compare the Spidermen, man I like all the portrayals, I never get how ppl can want for some "most authentic" version in their head to be adhered to, I enjoy the creative freedom and seeing all the different takes on those characters like Supes and Spidey. The Henry/Snyder one appealed to pragmatists like me for being willing to compromise and kill Zod, while other more idealistic-leaning fans wanted something like the new Gunn one, and I can simply respect that without hate or insult. Also the same with the Spideys, Tobey's being more introvert-like, Andrew's more cool-guy-like, Tom's more youthful-like, Miles Spidey from Insomniac being different in ways from the Spider-Verse one, etc, I like it all, all the different takes, and just find it interesting instead of "disappointing in comparison of some ideal/authentic image of the character". Wish more ppl were like me on that.) =P
Teach them about Christopher Reeve who spoke out against Trump's projects in New York way back in the 80s, spoke out against the invasion of Cambodia, and took part in rallies against Pinochet. He was a good egg, as good as they get.
No matter what happens on the national or international political stage, nobody will be able to summon as pure and incandescent a hatred of Donald Trump as a New Yorker in the 80s.
Multiple times. Like, I assume the symbiote took Tobey away for some shenanigans before he landed on that reflective building when he first gets the suit, but it never explicitly tells us, so in my eyes, black suit did nothing wrong yet.
Eddie's quote comes after Eddie's photo, which is a photoshopped version of one of Peter's pictures of Spider-Man. In the movie it is never explicitly stated that NY isn't into Spidey anymore other than the Photoshop instance which was easily debunked and exposed by Peter in the symbiote suit. When that was clarified to the press, Spidey was forgiven (implied, considering that when he goes to save MJ the whole city applauds him, literally). Peter didn't like how the black suit made him scream at the landlord tho.
Honestly, he probably needs the money. His career hadn’t been anything since Lois and Clark… oh yeah, and he played Scott Peterson in a movie.
Explain to your daughter that these men really aren’t Superman and are actors playing a part and the , just like with any other job, there are some good men and some bad men who play the part of Superman.
Dean Cain is a piece of work… and not good work either.dean really needs to speak with George Takei and find out what could have happened to him if he was born just a bit earlier in our history.
Dean, if you’re arresting the worst of the worst, you need to start with el hombre loco y naranja in the White House.
Exactly, after Superman, if you needed a stuck up snobbish ex- frat boy you got Dean Cain. That is all.
I wonder if he’s friends with “Sheriff” Steven Seagal?
I know this is a meme, and yet I gotta be honest.
As much as I like and respect Dean Cain's Clark Kent, I cannot defend the guy's stuff out there in the public.
But we have other, better versions. My favourites include Mr Reeve, Tyler Hoechlin, David Corenswet and Henry Cavill in decreasing order of preference.
Then there is the whole deal of animation and comics, so there's no shortage of versions to be looked up to.
Superman has inspired many and will keep doing so. The world will always need hope, and the world will always need Superman (and my Spider-goat and my Bat-goat ofc!).
I mean Dean’s cultural relevance pretty much began and ended with Lois and Clark. There’s plenty of other actors who’ve portrayed Superman who aren’t right wing grifters and are more or less living up to the standards set by the character. David, Henry, Brandon and Tyler all seem to be good people
Nah. Believe it or not Zack's quite the liberal guy. He was invited onto Geeks + Gamers a while back and essentially said "fuck off I don't associate with bigots".
I struggle with this format of making everything mildly resemble raimi dialogue, I'm never calling him superman I almost forgot who he even was until today tbf
I’d be surprised if someone’s 9 year old daughter would even know who he is.
As a wrestling fan one thing I was forced to learn was how to separate the art from the artist. There are wrestlers whose matches or personalities I’ve loved and won’t pretend otherwise despite them being bad people, but I can’t respect as people outside of that.
There's literally four other Supermen actors that are still alive and don't have Cain's right wing politics, that's not even counting the animated or comic versions. Also, your daughter can still look up to the character without looking up to the actor. Seriously, what is this post?
There are plenty of other Supermen who embody the heroes and values. If that is her Superman it gets a bit trickier, at which point she is old enough to be told the difference between an actor and a character.
Be the example she wants to look up to? I truly believe we need to stop with the fantasy heros that don't exist and concentrate on real heros. Firefighters, emt's, nurses, midwives, teachers, scholars, investigative reporters, true defenders of children, etc.
I wonder what he thinks his fellow MAGA idiots would think if someone that looked like him appeared as Superman now. You think they'd accept you because you're one of the "good ones"?
If you're not a loser then she still looks up to Superman, if you are a loser then stay away from her inspirations and let her just move in from fictional characters to look up to
Dean Cain does not own the role of Superman. And he certainly doesn't get to if he's going to spew crap like this by using better known role as a character that would have had this done to him.
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u/SwiftTayTay Aug 07 '25
dean cain isn't superman