Kevin Feige Hopes To Reacquire All Marvel Characters One Day

don't go drama raptor on me, and don't you straw man silence. I saw your post and it's evidently beside the point.

The classic "beefcake in tights" thing in all it's permutation is not about the literal wearing of tights (in fact in '89 Batman it was explicitly stated that his beefy abs (and lush nipple) were just a form of body armor).  But it's a remark on the oft bemoaned juvenilization and dumbing down of movies and pop culture. And of course to make fun of emotionally immature grown ups who are still into this kind of stuff typically aimed at emotionally insecure boys of 6-12, by giving them beefy power fantasies they can project to. Some claim it's a closeted form of homoeroticism, but I doubt that.

In fact one of my favorite responses when asking a friend why she broke up with someone is "he is reading comic books" (very special look in her eyes), which regularily causes hearty laugh-at-the-manchild laughs...QED