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There's an article in Newsweek by Ramin Setoodeh asking the question "What if G.I. Joe was Gay?" It's an suggestion on how to make the movie better, because he thought the movie blew chunks. The idea of making him gay is to give the character angst in the time of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and to explain why the two leads had no chemistry. But!

But before I fled, I wanted to check in on an elderly woman who had come to see the movie alone. She looked shellshocked in the lobby, but it turned out that she was only crying tears of joy. Apparently, she couldn't wait for the sequel.

I started to back away, but it was so late that I didn't think it would hurt if I sprang my idea on her. What if, in the next movie, G.I. Joe were gay? Would she still buy a ticket? Her face lit up. "Absolutely!" she said. "Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not powerful."

Of course, my second favorite part was

This week, there was a storm of protest online when Robert Downey Jr. suggested his onscreen Sherlock Holmes—scheduled to hit theater screens on Christmas—might have had a gay fling with Watson (Jude Law).

Because people have only been speculating about that for the past century. The sentences following that is how one media critic went into gay panic mode, and some lulz at that critics expense.

It's still miles away from "The League of Extraordinary Vaginas" but I still think it's cool.