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Prefatory note: But first a brief word on the same August 2016 Smithsonian issue article on Roman gladiators by Franz Lidz, and his statement on Emperor Commodus, who was "an anti-social Darwinist whose idea of culture was to slaughter giraffes and elephants," etc, etc. This probably would have amused Charles Darwin, who did not maintain the world was one big slaughterhouse, but that conflict, cooperation, random chance and mutation were all at play in the survival of the fittest. I bring this up here because, thanks to people like Margaret Mead, Franz Boaz and Sigmund Freud, the scientific theory of evolution has been pretty much banished from such areas of American society as the social sciences, the arts and the humanities.
Yes, like the theory of gravity, the details are always being worked out, but natural selection is backed up by tons of fossil evidence in Museums all around the world. However it has been anathema to the Marxist, now Multicultural Marxist, agenda that in fact different populations have different genetic traits that could be evident in such things as differing average IQs. Hence today even US presidents are tragicomically banging their heads against a stone wall trying to bring Black test scores up to the level of Whites and Asians. Of course the Tribe is very much involved in all this, a good source on this 20th century hijacking of American culture being: The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald.)
Back to Archie Comics by Hanna Rosin:
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The original teenage gang couldn’t stay cloistered forever, though. Kevin Keller, a gay character, was introduced in 2010. Zombies invaded Riverdale in 2013’s Afterlife with Archie. In a revamped Archie #1 last year, the kids got cellphones, suitors of all races and PG-13 hookup-era dilemmas.
Now comes the classic’s trickiest makeover with a new Betty & Veronica #1 this July. The old Betty and Veronica, of course, spent all their time scheming to get Archie’s attention, at the expense of any decency or personal ambition. But feminine wiles on that scale don’t fly in the age of girl empowerment. So how will the girls remain true to themselves and yet time-travel to 2016?
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The idea that Betty and Veronica truly cared about boring old Archie was always comically implausible. The real chemistry, and all the fun, happened between the two girls. The comedian Lena Dunham confessed a couple of years ago that she was a lifelong fan girl, and announced a deal to write a four-part Archie series. Fellow fans immediately suggested she make Betty and Veronica lesbians. That wasn’t for sexual thrills, I believe. Fans were simply expressing what they’d known all along: Our titular hero was irrelevant. The girls were going to take over Riverdale all along. They just had to wait until the time was right.
Obviously the time is right.
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