Super Heroes in Body Paint

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Superheroes are Bad Role Models?

Wow, I'm shocked to see this. According to psychologists, superheroes are bad role models to young boys.

"In today's media, superheroes and slackers are the only two options boys have," said Lamb. "Boys are told, if you can't be a superhero, you can always be a slacker. Slackers are funny, but slackers are not what boys should strive to be; slackers don't like school and they shirk responsibility. We wonder if the messages boys get about saving face through glorified slacking could be affecting their performance in school."

Teaching boys early on to distance themselves from these images and encouraging them to find the lies in the messages can help, said Lamb. "When you crowd out other types of media messages, you promote stereotypes and limit their options."

Boys seem better adjusted when they resist internalizing "macho" images, according to a researcher who also presented at APA's convention.

Researcher Carlos Santos, PhD, of Arizona State University, examined 426 middle school boys' ability to resist being emotionally stoic, autonomous and physically tough — stereotyped images of masculinity — in their relationships. He also looked at how this would affect their psychological adjustment.

Santos looked at whether boys could resist being tough, emotionally unavailable, and detached from their friends as they moved from sixth to eighth grade; whether ethnicity made a difference; whether their relationships with their families and peer group fostered this resistance; and whether resisting these images affected their psychological health.

Participants were from different racial/ethnic backgrounds: 20 percent were African-American, 9 percent were Puerto Rican, 17 percent were Dominican-American, 21 percent were Chinese-American, 27 percent were European-American and 6 percent were of another race or ethnicity.

Boys from diverse ethnic and racial groups were equally able to resist these masculine stereotypes, going against the common belief that certain ethnic minority boys are more emotionally stunted and hypermasculine, said Santos. Few differences were detected and most tended to dissipate over the course of middle school.

He found that boys were more likely to act tough and detached from their friends as they got older. But boys who remained close to their mothers, siblings and peers did not act as tough and were more emotionally available to their friends compared to those who were not as close. However, closeness to fathers encouraged boys to be more autonomous and detached from friendships.

"If the goal is to encourage boys to experience healthy family relationships as well as healthy friendships, clinicians and interventionists working with families may benefit from having fathers share with their sons on the importance of experiencing multiple and fulfilling relationships in their lives," Santos said. He also found that boys who were depressed had a harder time not acting macho in their friendships.

Hmm, well that's why Wonder Woman was, and still is, my role model.

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Criminals of Columbia, Tennessee Beware... The Viper is Near

This is Kick-Ass in real time


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New Series: No Ordinary Family

New show from ABC

A Wonder Woman Porn? Hera Help me!

As we wait to get a real Wonder Woman movie, the porn world may get it done first.

The porn studio, Vivid Entertainment, has just put out a Batman porno. The director, Axel Braun promises there will be more superhero smut to come:

I'm already in preproduction on "Superman." I'm going to shoot that at the end of next month, and with that I'm going to do the Christopher Reeve Superman. It's not going to be an origin story. It's going to start with him working at the newspaper because the origin story involves situations with kids, and that's not something we can do in an adult movie. [Laughs] So it'll be him as an adult, and it's going to have some really great action. The costume is being made now, and it's unbelievable.

And then I'm going to do "Spider-Man" right after, and that's going to be an origin story. It'll be a reboot of the whole thing, and I'm going to have my favorite villain in it with Electro. It's something I've always wanted to see in a Spider-Man movie that they haven't done. Then I don't know the exact order. The first three are Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, and then there's Wonder Woman and we're going to do a Green Hornet that'll come out the same day that the Seth Rogen movie comes out. We're going to basically follow the releases of the mainstream movies with Captain America, Thor and Green Lantern. We have a bunch of them, and they're going to be a lot of fun.

I will be sad if we get a Diana porn before the real deal.

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5 Interesting Videos with Superheroes

Sometimes when I'm thinking about ruling the world or traveling to different dimensions, I take time out to surf the internets.

And usually, I find some odd and interesting things. Today, I found some interesting videos about Heroes.

The title is called Indian Superman from the movie, Dariya Dil.


Call Me Ruby from Ruby the Superhero


Celi Bee gives us Superman - I'm feeling this


I Am He-Man is always a favorite.


Hero High- I remember this cartoon/live action show. Do you?

The Make-A-Wish Foundation turns a boy into a Superhero

The Make-A-Wish Foundation turned 13-year old, Erik Martin into Electron Boy, and all of Seattle helped.

Geek site, io9 reports:

Martin, who is living with liver cancer, always wanted to be a superhero, and the people of Seattle, along with the Make-A-Wish foundation were more than happy to make that fantasy a reality for one perfect day.

On April 30th, Martin woke up to a desperate phone call from Spider-Man, the only other super that knows his superhero identity as Electron Boy. The Seattle Sounders had been taken hostage by Dr. Dark and Blackout Boy, and they needed his help! Electron Boy suited up and rode out to Qwest Field via DeLorean on a shut down road with a police motorcycle escort. And that's just the start of his day.

After Electron Boy freed the Sounders, much to the joy of his awaiting fans, Dr. Dark and Blackout Boy struck again! This time, they threatened to plummet all of Seattle into darkness. So it was back on the road again for Electron Boy. After saving a few civilian hostages, along with finishing up a few other heroic deeds, his wild chase landed Electron Boy at the Space Needle. After a big show down, Electron Boy bested the evil doers, and the police carted them away. And the crowd went wild. We urge you to read the entire story at the Seattle Times, because there really was no limit to this town's outpouring of love, support, and role playing creativity.

Such a great story about a Hero.

Warners Announces a Super Hero Movie EVERY SUMMER!

Feeling this news!!!

Warners will bring the DC Comic Universe to the screen!
Bleeding Cool reports:

Warner Bros has announced they will be releasing a big superhero movie every summer from Green Lantern in 2011, on. This will replace the Harry Potter franchise in the studi’s budget as that series of films comes to an end.

President & COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment Alan Horn, speaking at Showest, stated “As we ease out of Harry Potter, we hope to bring you the excitement of the DC Library”

Yes, now we should get that Wonder Woman Movie!!!! With Joss Whedon!!!

Thanks to my soul bro, Mechadude for the info.

Diversity 101 from ISIS

Tell it, Mighty Isis!

Superheroes Are Real

Since 9/11 there are folks running around acting like...superheroes. I mean real superheroes, like fighting crime and righting wrongs kind of stuff.

But who are these people? Rolling Stone gives us an insight.






Like other real life super-heroes, Master Legend is not an orphan from a distant dying sun or the mutated product of a gamma-ray experiment gone awry. He is not an eccentric billionaire moonlighting as a crime fighter. He is, as he puts it, "just a man hellbent on battling evil." Although Master Legend was one of the first to call himself a Real Life Superhero, in recent years a growing network of similarly homespun caped crusaders has emerged across the country.

Some were inspired by 9/11. If malevolent individuals can threaten the world, the argument goes, why can't other individuals step up to save it? "What is Osama bin Laden if not a supervillain, off in his cave, scheming to destroy us?" asks Green Scorpion, a masked avenger in Arizona. True to comic-book tradition, each superhero has his own aesthetic. Green Scorpion's name is derived from his desert home, from which he recently issued a proclamation to "the criminals of Arizona and beyond," warning that to continue illegal activities is to risk the "Sting of the Green Scorpion!"

The Eye takes his cue from the primordial era of Detective Comics, prowling Mountain View, California, in a trench coat, goggles and a black fedora featuring a self-designed logo: the "all-seeing" Eye of Horus. Superhero — his full name — is a former wrestler from Clearwater, Florida, who wears red and blue spandex and a burgundy helicopter helmet, and drives a 1975 Corvette Stingray customized with license plates that read SUPRHRO.

These are real people with the love of comics and the human spirit. Though it seems crazy, these heroes are dedicated in helping people. It's not about fame for them. Who knows what next for these folks, but with an Obama-nation on its way, more heroes are sure to rise.

My take on Marvel's Secret Invasion

Marvel's Secret Invasion is over. Folks died, teams changed, folks came back, and barely any major change happened. The basis of the mini series is the Skrulls trying to take over the Earth. They have replaced several of the Marvel Heroes over the years to achieve this goal. But in the end, it was okay...nothing to shout about.

However, if I was able to put my 2 cents in, this would be my spin.

• When the ship had several possible Skrulls or Heroes, there should have been a mix of the two. All of them were Skrulls, which made that piece almost useless. But we did learn that Spider-Woman was the Skrull Queen. I would have made Cap, Hawkeye, the Beast, and maybe Iron Man the real deal.

• More secrets: It would have been neat if there were more heroes as hidden Skrulls. For example, Cyclops, Bucky, Mister Sinster, Mystique, Grant Morrison's Magneto, Vision, Nick Fury, The Order should have been Skrulls.

• Limit the number of comics telling the story. The side stories were boring and close to being pointless. We didn't need Secret Invasion: Front Line or SI: X-Men. Nothing really happened in them, but MI5 with Captain Britian was good.

• Death: More heroes should have died. Wasp's death was big and not big at the same time; more big names should've bit the bullet.

• There should have been secret deals between villians and other game players. If the Earth was taken over by the Skrulls, it would have been nice to see other deals set in motion.

• Maybe have a bigger player in charge of the Skrulls. Since Apocalypse does not have a real purpose, this could have his doing. Or maybe Dr. Doom or some other space evil person.

• Learn more about the Skrulls' goals. They wanted to take over our planet, okay, and what else.

• Mockingbird?
  

That's just my thoughts but I'm sure there's better ideas out there.