This week on View from the Gutters, circumstances conspired such that we simply could not record our weekly episode as usual. I’m assuming that supervillains have teamed up to attack our fair show with weather machines and bioengineered plagues. On the down side this means that we’re all going to have to wait until next week for our discussion of The Wake to happen. Believe you me that we’re all bummed about that fact because boy howdy do we have some thoughts about this one.
On the upside, it means that you get to listen to our occasionally mentioned, never-to-be-released secret bonus episode which we recorded a while back in case of emergency. Within, each of our hosts talk about “the comic book they hate the most.” We’ll be back next week with our regularly scheduled episode.
Our hosts for this episode were Andrew Chard, Joe Preti, Tobiah Panshin, and Cade Reynolds.
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I know we touch on this later in the episode, but ever since we recorded it I’ve been agonizing a bit over my references to “gay nude hot tubbing.” It may be a case of my being overly sensitive, but I don’t think I adequately explained myself. I wanted to stress that I’m a-ok with any combination of the words “gay”, “nude”, and “hot-tubbing” that you’d like to make.
Rather, my problem was with the hyper-macho implications of the scene in question. It’s not a question of the characters’ sexuality, but rather the expression of straight male power dominance by dressing two straight male characters as women and having them perform sex acts on two other (presumably) straight male characters that I found irksome. Maybe there’s a word for that which I’m not coming up with.
Anyway, talking about that comic gets me all riled up, and I wanted to be sure my point was clear, lest anyone take offense.