DC Comics' copyrights are being hijacked in the name of love — or maybe just lust. Following on from the controversy surrounding Playboy's Wonder Woman cover, now Superman is gaining a particularly sexual dimension that'll have DC lawyers jumping to their Bat-Phones.
According to US News and World Report:
The sexual assault prevention center and a feminist group at the University of Michigan are outraged over a dorm T-shirt, saying its references to the Soulja Boy song "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" are demeaning to women, the Michigan Daily reports. The shirt features the Superman logo on the front (helping to spell out "South Quad") and the phrase "Superman that ho" on the back, which is slang for a nonconsensual sex act.What kind of nonconsensual sex act?
Thanks to the ever helpful Urban Dictionary, we learn that the phrase "Superman" means the following:
when you cum on a girls back and then stick the sheets to her, so when she wakes up in the morning she has a cape.That spinning sound that you hear? That'll be Superman creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel in their graves.
Michigan's Soulja Boy-Themed Shirts Upset Students [US News]









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How exactly is that non-consensual? She'd rather get it in the eye?
Are we that desperate for new sex terms? I'm still trying to work "santorum" into my vocab.
@zeppelined: Well, presumably you don't tell her, because if she knew she had jizz on her back, like any sensible human being, she'd wipe it off.
@moncapitaine: What is "Santorum" supposed to mean? Is it named after Rick Santorum? Wouldn't that just be a closet homosexual?
Huh? They're pissed about the t-shirt but not the song that millions of 4 year olds know word for word and dance to daily?
I'm just trying to envision a scenario in which a girl would be fine with me doing her doggie style, but feels I've totally crossed the line when I come on her back.
"when you cum on a girls back and then stick the sheets to her, so when she wakes up in the morning she has a cape."
LOL! Never heard that before!
Man ... that's just as bad as the main protagonist in Henry Millers "Under the Roof of Paris" where out of spite, he wipes his dick on this girls curtains after they have sex.
o_O
@braak:
Google says:
Santorum:
1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
@zeppelined, they left out the part about the girl originally not wanting to have sex with you so the man waits until she's asleep and jacks off onto her back. Supposedly that's how it goes. As a girl it seems like my husband could come up with a million other things to do to me for no-sex-revenge than something stupid like this anyway.
Superman now has a taste of how the long forgotten Comic Book Hero, Cleveland Steamer, feels?
@dead_red_eyes: That sounds like Rick Santorum, all right. Isn't it supposed to be some kind sex act, too...?
@apronk: Uh, no. The point is: she is a hoe. Supermanning is to degrade her and mark her as such.
@dead_red_eyes: thanks for the AM gag. glad i'm not eating anytime soon.
One word: aghast.
@dead_red_eyes and braak: Really, you have to see the website for maximum effect:
[www.spreadingsantorum.com]
Yuck.
Please forgive us, Superman!
@Tim, I disagree. I think back-jizzing is way lame and stinks of lack of effort and creativity. Face, hair, armpits, toes, and butt crack all sound way more practical in a "marking the bitch as a ho" sense to me.
Is it just me or is Urban Dictionary around simply to catalog various degrading sex acts originating mostly in the minds of sexually confused and/or deprived adolescents?
@apronk: And yet you think it makes sense that Soulja Boy's brand of braggadocio, or anyone's for that matter, is all, "I couldn't convince your girlfriend to sleep with me so I masturbated on her back instead.... OH!"? Does not compute.
@Oxfordian: That's all I use Urban Dictionary for. How else am I going to find out what "space docking" is?
@Tim, it's the full definition @ Urban Dictionary for "Superman" - I was going from that perspective. Apparently just plain "Superman" is different from "Superman dat hoe".
Still, you gotta admit, it's a pretty stupid term. Still shows lack of creativity I think.
Urban legend. yet another sex act folks talk about but no one has verifiably done.
+ Semen doesn't have that sort of adhesive strength. Paper? yes. A sheet? No.
@Oxfordian: Well, we've got regular dictionaries to define all the other words.
@COMICDORK, very true. I mean, especially if she rolls over and sleeps on her back - that fitted sheet just ain't coming off.
That spinning sound that you hear? That'll be Superman creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel in their graves.
I think they, legally, can only roll over in their graves if you "Superboy that ho"
@apronk: Urban Dictionary can be as accurate as Wikipedia, as in not accurate.
I think Soulja Boy is stupid, but no, I can say the phrase is stupid or uncreative. Not only is it brilliantly creative, it's become subversively mainstream with schoolteachers teaching it to children, politicians, and the unaware rapping and performing the dance with ignorant glee. Got to give it props.
who cares about superman? what about Robocop?
@Tim Faulkner: sorry "can't say"
@Tim Faulkner: But if you're going for the gold (spreading it across the land and such) why not make it as naughty as possible?
Wow, CLASSY!
@apronk: because then "Superman" wouldn't make sense, and you wouldn't have little kids across America doing it? Don't worry, if you want more creative degradation, I'm sure Soulja Boy is willing to oblige. Don't know how that makes a phrase that is comically and imagistically brilliant and which makes many go, "OMG, OMG, I had no idea" stupid and uncreative.
+ Semen doesn't have that sort of adhesive strength. Paper? yes. A sheet? No.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Creative, maybe. But it's still dumb. Wow, you're really destroying The System by getting people to say unintentionally obscene things.
@DrLocrian: Agreed. There are some possibly sketchy secret definitions for Electric Slide too but I'm not gasping and laughing at all the middle-aged women singing along and dancing to it at weddings.
It's kind of like that stupid dork joke. "Hey Joe did you know that 'dork' is also the name for a whale's penis? Ha, jokes on you, buddy!"
btw I hope everyone here knows that I'm just having some fun conversation and not really being very serious about any of this.
He also sings "aquaman that ho". Don't nobody care about how Aquaman feels?
And, before you ask:
"Aquamanning that ho" consists of fucking a ho from behind in a bathroom setting. To be more specific directly over the toilet bowl with a functioning flush mechanism. Immediately before ejaculation you slam that ho's head into the toilet water and proceed to flush during the skeeting process."
Two behaviours that for years have been incorporated into my casual sex life, and now I finally have words for them.
Thank you, Soulja Boy.
@extracrispy: Thanks for that
To... many.. funny... posts... can't... stop... laughing...
@DrLocrian: @apronk: I don't think I or anyone was suggesting that Soulja Boy is "destroying The System" or that it's humorous. Sad really. The lyrics were intended for those who know, but the dance and beat had obvious broader appeal. Clearly whatever System you speak of has major problems already if it dances to a song for a year before paying attention to the lyrics. I'm merely saying that finding it crude, obscene, or dumb cannot diminish the creativity of it. Btw, Soulja Boy certainly didn't originate it, just made it popular.
@Tim Faulkner: I think Soulja Boy is well aware of his target demographic and who pays his mortgage via cd's and iTunes.
@zeppelined: You do it when she's sleeping. Like if she says "I'm to tired" and goes to sleep without nookie.
If he didn't originate it, how creative can it be?
@apronk: Yes, which is why I doubt he knew Richard Stallman and several Senators would be Supermanning.
@DrLocrian: I didn't say Soulja Boy was creative, I said the phrase "Superman" was creative.
@ComicDork: - "+ Semen doesn't have that sort of adhesive strength. Paper? yes. A sheet? No."
Obviously you've never nutted in a girls hair before.
Isn't there a legal issue here, aside from the porn? I suggest that Superman falls under the heading of Public Domain material and can be used by anyone who wants to. And they should be able to make money also, without paying a license fee to anyone. After a while, an image like Superman becomes iconic and part of the common culture. DC has no right to prevent the use of the the Superman image by anyone for any reason. I wonder if the Creative Commons Copyright Crowd would agree?
@extracrispy: Dito. I had to look up "Strawberry Shortcake" and that's the first place I went.
@Tim Faulkner: You kind of did say he was creative:
"Don't worry, if you want more creative degradation, I'm sure Soulja Boy is willing to oblige."
Anyway, I stand corrected. Superman is the most subversive, imagistically brilliant in-joke to come along in many a blue moon. Pure genius. No one dumb could have come up with that.
This is all in good fun, too, I must add.
@B: Well...ok. But again, girl says no to sex, fine. Then she goes to sleep apparently naked in your presence. And yet still the relationship can not bear the strain of a little illicit back spooge.
I mean, it's not like sneaking up on a sleeping girl and giving her a Dirty Sanchez.
@DrLocrian: I was saying he was all kinds of degrading, not creative. It comes natural to him without thinking about it. But it would appear creative to apronk's husband. (No offense to apronk or her husband.)
... and that's why all those dudes doing the 'Crank That' dance are suckers.
Or assholes.
@zeppelined: I think there's probably a general rule that jerking off on someone's back while they're sleeping as revenge for their not boning you is Not A Nice Thing To Do. Maybe you move in different circles than I do.
@Tim Faulkner: Very true. What you don't want to know is, what I do to my husband in his sleep when he turns *me* down. ;)
lighten up people. just because it's in a stupid song doesnt meant that we should all go superman-ing our ho's. When you saw superman in the theater for the first time, did you go home and try to fly from your roof? One kid did... he's no longer eligible to donate his genetic code to the rest of humanity. Nuff said...
@apronk: Oh, but I do. I do.
@apronk: WOW. I'm not sure if i don't want to know. Perhaps we could call this unnamed move the Mystique, because you wake up sticky and how that happened is a mystery...
@Tim Faulkner: Just keep a heads up for an verb by the name of "apronk" in the urban dictionary. ha.
@ComicDork: A friend of mine told me he nut on his girlfriend's back once, when she was asleep, for apparently no reason, and when she woke up the blanket was stuck to her back.
Braak, just to follow up on the Santorum thing, yes it was named after Rick Santorum (lube and fecal matter). It was coined by sex columnist Dan Savage a few years back to get back at Santorum for his hate speech to gays.
Note to self: never date a man with the emotional maturity of a potty-training-resistant three-year-old.
Also, in my universe, that's a castrating offense right there, boys. Anyone who has that little respect for another human should not be equipped to create more of them.
@GenXCub: Oh. Good!
That seems more like something teenage boys would THINK would work but actually wouldn't.
@MeepsZoR:
Well, guys who come on sleeping girls' backs probably aren't making a lot of genetic contributions either.
@apronk:
"I disagree. I think back-jizzing is way lame and stinks of lack of effort and creativity. Face, hair, armpits, toes, and butt crack all sound way more practical in a "marking the bitch as a ho" sense to me."
If there's any justice in this world you've got a single sister...
"I'm still trying to work "santorum" into my vocab."
sadly, I had no problem working that one in.