Think about conversations in the line up, during a lull between waves when you’re just killing time and chatting with those around you. “why should sexuality even an issue that comes up in the line-up? We’re here to surf.’ ” In other words, ‘tolerance’ upholds this idea of heterosexuality as the norm, meaning anything outside that is merely ‘put up with.’ Being ‘put up with’ is not ‘belonging,’ and to feel like you don’t belong to a community of people who share the same life-consuming passion as you – surfing- is heartbreaking. It keeps a classic hierarchy in place and you want to ditch the hierarchy.” Tolerance doesn’t suggest dialogue whatsoever. I think that there should be an appreciation and effort to understand where other people are coming from. “‘Tolerance says that you’ve got this dominant group and they’re going to ‘put up’ with this marginal group. “To live your dreams, you cannot hide your true self.” He says. And being just being ‘tolerant’ is nowhere, nowhere near enough to make someone feel as though they belong in their community. This is where I hear time and time again a resounding: ‘I’m not against gays, just don’t rub it in my face!’ or ‘you can be gay, just don’t tell anyone about it.’īut as Dr Clifton Evers states in the documentary OUT in the lineup, mere tolerance is not the same thing as appreciation. They did not believe me, they thought I was joking!” “On a recent surf trip, it took me three days to convince the other guys on the surf trip that I was gay. Implied heterosexuality (where you automatically assume someone is straight) is a recurring thing he continuously has to face, he says. I sat down with Thomas Castets, the founder of and producer of award winning documentar y OUT in the line up. And this is costing many surfers sponsorships, belonging, and sometimes can even result in suicide. All I see is the implication that if you surf, you must be straight. Across all those platforms, I see no representation of gay surfers. Articles, videos, movies, interviews, advertising, social media.
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“At the moment, it’s just expected everyone is straight, and when you’re out in the water and someone comes up to you and asks you a question, there’s always an understanding that you’re straight.” says Thomas Castets, founder of Īs the blog editor of a company that teaches women how to surf, I spend a lot of time neck deep in online surf content. They’re allowed to be moved to tears when talking about the perfect wave they caught that day, they’re allowed to be passionate and sentimental. Men are allowed to be elegant and graceful. “Something pointless and elegant, as though nobody saw or cared.”Īnd it’s true, in surfing, no one cares. “How strange it was to see men do something beautiful,” Tim Winton wrote in his book Breath. In the sea, sitting astride my surfboard I am free, unburdened, open, raw. Marvel Comics also houses some powerful cosmic beings potentially as strong as Dr. Manhattan? He was easily the strongest person in the Watchmen universe, but since DC Comics brought Manhattan into their main comic book continuity, fans can easily compare Manhattan to other DC heroes. Updated on Septemby Cole Kennedy: How strong is Dr. There are beings from both DC and Marvel Comics, smart and powerful, who can beat Dr. However, he has one major weakness: he cannot feel or understand humanity.
He has nearly unlimited powers including cosmic awareness and matter manipulation. Jon Osterman was a nuclear physicist caught in a radioactive particle test that turned him into an omniscient godlike being. RELATED: The 10 Greatest Opening Scenes In Comics Since the original Watchmen series, DC Comics expanded the world with story arcs like "The Button" and miniseries like Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Brad Anderson that brought Manhattan and Watchmen characters into the mainstream DC universe. Manhattan was the only person with actual superpowers and the most powerful being in Watchmen created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins.
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