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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 15:29:02 GMT -5
In more innocent times a man would kiss a woman and a women would kiss a man and it wouldn't involve lawyers. Comics have been full of such encounters. Here are some examples. Maybe Lois Lane started it all off  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 16:02:53 GMT -5
I don't remember Kory asking Robins permission before planting this kiss on him.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 17:10:22 GMT -5
Nothing like taking a kiss before dieing.  But who forced the kiss? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 17:52:03 GMT -5
Uh, Prince , she's married .  |
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 2, 2019 17:57:41 GMT -5
I'm noticing a pattern here
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 2, 2019 19:11:37 GMT -5
As I recall, people kissed a whole lot more a few decades ago (early to mid 80s, during my teens). I freely admit that I didn’t mind it one bit. (Just make sure my wife doesn’t read this)!  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 20:03:05 GMT -5
BYRNNNNNNNNNNEEEE !!!!!  |
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Post by badwolf on Sept 2, 2019 20:30:59 GMT -5
Look at all this disgusting rape. That Mr. Wertham was right!
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Post by shaxper on Sept 2, 2019 20:54:59 GMT -5
Our cultural attitudes towards this have certainly changed, and this is worthy of exploration, but I am bothered by the #metoo aspect of this thread. Is the implication that folks who have been sexually assaulted need to settle down because Lois Lane gave Superman an unprovoked kiss in the 1940s?
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 21:26:15 GMT -5
Certainly rape is an abomination but an uninvited kiss doesn't rise to that occasion.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 21:28:14 GMT -5
In this story, Jan didn't know who Yellowjacket really was.  It was retconned in a mini in the 2000's that everyone knew it was Hank but played along with his psychotic break. I don't know what's worse. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 2, 2019 21:37:33 GMT -5
From comments I've heard or read over the years, I've come to believe that most women probably never liked uninvited kisses back in the day either, but they felt they had to put up with it because they'd be ridiculed or brow-beaten as man-haters or whatever if they said anything. Remember that famous photo of the soldier kissing a woman in celebration of the Allied victory at the end of WWII? Apparently no one ever thought to ask her how she felt about it until many years later, but she wasn't exactly happy about it - at least I think I remember reading something along those lines this a few years ago.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 2, 2019 21:47:06 GMT -5
Certainly rape is an abomination but an uninvited kiss doesn't rise to that occasion. An uninvited kiss isn't rape. It also isn't necessarily welcome, and thus we enter into a gray area that shouldn't be glossed over. But when you write "#metoo" you are referencing survivors of rape and sexual assault, which is pretty insensitive. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 21:51:04 GMT -5
I was wondering if the title would be frowned upon. I'm of the opinion that some of the # me too movement is overblown without any proof at all. The scans I've posted are kisses between 2 adults. and some are welcome and some are rebuffed. Just like real life.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2019 21:52:09 GMT -5
I never forgot this encounter in the JLA book.  |
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