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This week Archie dropped a preview of Jughead #4 by Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson that casually revealed that the famed crowned cap wearer is asexual, defined as someone who is not attracted to people of any gender. This is a follow up to writer Zdarsky’s comments at NYCC ’15: “My view of Jughead is, over […]
It’s definitely hard to keep up with the new terminology, and there’s a good chance I have this wrong, but I’m pretty sure asexuality implies a lot more than abstaining from sex and romantic relationships. So it makes little sense to say Jughead is “sublimating sexual urges to things like eating fries.” As an asexual, he’d likely deny he has any sexual urges to sublimate, and if, as a healthy teenage boy, he occasionally needs to masturbate before he can get to sleep at night, he’d see that as a simple bodily function unrelated to the future possibility of copulation. (I am curious what asexual people think about while they masturbate, if anyone could enlighten me.)
Or is it that in Jughead’s case, “asexual” is simply being used to mean he isn’t interested in dating (for the moment)?
Asexuality is so rarely talked about, it’s nice to see a comic character actively identified as such, just so people are more aware what it is and that it isn’t a lifestyle choice.
One of the things I enjoyed about Keanu Reeve’s Constantine was that the character seemed noticeably asexual, though instead fans kept speculating whether he was supposed to be gay.
Again, so impressed by Archie modernity, compared to dc and marvel conservatism.
Jughead was always asexual. The beauty is, they didn’t feel the need to beat you over the head with it. It just didn’t come up. I’d feel better about it if the motivation for this was not to get headlines on comicsbeat, etc. It’s just like Marvel- completely motivated for media attention. Comics suck.
I legit can’t tell whether or not that last comment was intended as a parody of the usual “why do they need to beat me over the head with it” argument.
It’s especially funny to me, because I’m in the middle of re-reading all the original Marvel comics in order, month by month (I’m currently up to 1965), and the constant forced love triangles in nearly every issue of every series could quite literally be described as beating readers over the head with their straightness.