I have a lot of questions about different parts of this title that I don’t understand, but I support him.
Marc Tyler Nobleman was supposed to talk to kids about the secret co-creator of Batman, with the aim of inspiring young students in suburban Atlanta’s Forsyth County to research and write.
Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.
First of all thank you for saving a click. Secondly, Marc Tyler Nobleman is not just a Batman researcher, he is a symbol. What an absolute Chad.
Would he have said the artist had a ‘straight’ son? Or is it just a son in that case?
I want the title of “Batman researcher”
Dark Knight Detective
World’s Greatest Detective Detective.
Curator of Caped Crusader curiosities
Imagine how difficult it is to try to tell people that you are, globally, the pre-eminent batman researcher…
If he’s the best, then he’s the World’s Greatest World’s Greatest Detective Detective.
Feels like they’re Robin you by not granting it.
These policies are riddled with discrimination and hypocrisy. These extremists need two face reality and put a freeze on them.
Penguin
Penwing
You’re quite the joker, aren’t you?
…batman researcher?
Comic Book Historian would have been a better title. I thought “batman” might have been referring to an unrelated school or something.
He should have let himself be fired. Then he could have brought a lawsuit against the school district over the matter. The school district would have had to demonstrate their reason to fire him on the record. If the researcher received damages for wrongful termination, the taxpayers would know it’s their money that is being frivolously spent to support someone’s homophobic agenda.
Probably couldn’t get them for wrongful termination. At-Will employment is a bitch.
But he could likely get unemployment for being terminated without cause, which is a different thing.
he was a one time guest speaker. you don’t get to claim unemployment for that. and he chose to cancel, not the school
he was a one time guest speaker
In that case, no reason not to walk.
I knew he’d quit. I was just clarifying that waiting to be fired from a job isn’t useful from a “wrongful termination” standpoint because At-Will Employment means “wrongful termination” doesn’t really exist in any state except Montana. But if he had been an employee, he would have had grounds to collect unemployment if terminated without cause.
Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.
“We’re long past the point where we should be policing people talking about who they love,” Nobleman said in a telephone interview. “And that’s what I’m hoping will happen in this community.”
They didn’t ask him not to “say ‘gay’”, as the title all but claims. They asked him to participate in the erasure of a relevant gay person from a story he was teaching to children.
Wait, was it a relevant person?
It’s the son of the artist, right? Did the son have anything to do with Batman? Did the son’s sexual orientation have anything to do with Batman?
What else is relevant about the son? Was he an artist? A writer? What did he do for a living? Did he have any relevant health disorders? Food preferences? Did he have any children?
BROADLY SPEAKING, your sexual preferences are the least interesting or relevant things in any conversation, unless we’re considering dating each other.
I don’t know the history of Batman so maybe it’s actually relevant, but my gut says it’s just not.
who gives aa shit. telling people what words they can and connote say is the censorship in the extreme.
cannot. for some reason my screen dims when i try to post. won’t post again. for now.
I don’t disagree with you at all.
I was responding to someone claiming they were deleting a relevant gay person from history - I was challenging the “relevant” part, that’s all.
I personally couldn’t care less what this guy put in his presentation.
The son’s name is Bruce, his husband’s name is Wayne.
Holy crap I’ve never been so amazed. Yup, 100% relevant.
The son’s name was Fred Finger, and he died unmarried in his 40’s due to complications from AIDS.
The guy above was joking.
My policy has always been that I don’t care what you do in your own bedroom unless I’m involved in it, that is. Mainly, I just mean I don’t care to know everyone’s orientation. It’s not something I find relevant in most situations.
Yep, that’s my attitude too. Apparently it’s unpopular.
What’s your gender identity and sexual orientation?
I identify as tired.
Oh man, I’ve never thought to identify that way. But that’s a good one.
100% stolen from Nanette, a great comedy special/activisty rant by Hannah Gadsby.
Worth a watch even if she’s not your cup of tea.
Oh, I remember that. She was pretty great. Gotta see if she has anything new
I dunno, would he mention the artist had a straight son? Or is it just a son in that case?
Head of the Batman Research Institute at the Harvard School of Comics.
Batman researcher? quit? who was paying him in the first place?
Something something something R & D in a big building somewhere downtown
He was the researcher they needed but not the researcher they deserved.
I am the night… researcher.
a….batman researcher? 🤣
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If you’re curious as to why the title is like that, it should have prompted you to read the article as to why.
Nah. Not worth my time, lol.
Imagine caring about everything you see on the internet.
Not worth my time
Has numerous comments in this thread, weeping like a toddler because gay people exist
Lol
Lol. Do you think you were being clever?
It’d still be a waste of my time to read the article.
Sorry that’s too much for you to understand.
Waste of time
Engages further
Lol
still doesn’t understand
Alright, troll. Back under the bridge with you (blocked.)
Oh no… The homophobic troll has called me a troll and blocked me. Whatever shall I do…
Blocked
Why was someone from Batman, Turkey even teaching these kids?
Or Batman, Australia (suburb of Melbourne)
AKA: World’s Greatest Researcher.
Batman researcher?
My man still trying to find out who this mysterious caped crusader is.
Yet another thing I’ll never understand about cricket ffs
He quit researching Batman?
Quit the talk.
Both. He quit the talk AND quit researching Batman. He is now on sabbatical in a trailer near Bend, OR. He has been drinking since yesterday.
This is such bullshit.
