Rodney Sanches
Boy Fear Cures
Comicbook Characters and the Fears They Assuage in the Minds of Little Boys
| Character | Fear | Argument |
|---|---|---|
| SUPERMAN | powerlessness | The fear of being dissolved in the banal homogeneity of adult male identity |
| SPIDERMAN | masturbation | Sticky hands, flying from building to building, through the air, crawling up walls with hairy hands, long socks |
| BATMAN | homosexuality | Lives in a cave, closet with scantily clad boy and older man, complex daddy issues, capers at night in leather fetish outfit, has a car that projects anxiety, pretend girlfriend |
| WOLVERINE | castration | Knife hands when excited |
| IRONMAN | erectile dysfunction | Soft mammal body replaced with a hard outer shell, like an insect |
| HULK | tiny penis | Expresses rage, clothes ripped apart by growing mass except for one part then never grows very large |
