Salon Bemoans Spider-Man, Movie Superheroes Being 'Straight,
White Men'  Gavia Baker-Whitelaw lamented how the movie
depictions of Spider-Man and other superheroes are all
"straight, white men" in a Tuesday item on titled "America
deserves better superheroes: Why a straight, white Spider-Man is
no longer a real underdog." Baker-Whitelaw, a "fandom and
Internet culture" reporter for the website The Daily Dot, zeroed
in on the supposed "ramifications of having eternal underdog
Peter Parker remain a straight, white man."  The writer also
complimented Andrew Garfield, the actor who plays the title
character in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, for wondering why the
superhero "can' into boys," and contended that Sony, the studio
releasing the upcoming movie, "might benefit from listening
to...Garfield's comments on the potential hypocrisy of
portraying Peter Parker as being marginalized by society." She
later hoped that superhero movies would catch up with the
"reasonably progressive and diverse representation of real-lif