Arizona Republican Ridiculed for Tweet Declaring Bisexual Superman Is Supposed to Love ‘Louis Lane’

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers was roundly derided Monday for a tweet about Superman coming out as bisexual.

“Superman loves Louis Lane. Period,” she tweeted. “Hollywood is trying to make Superman gay and he is not. Just rename the new version Thooperman so we can all know the difference and avoid seeing it.”

Superman loves Louis Lane. Period. Hollywood is trying to make Superman gay and he is not. Just rename the new version Thooperman so we can all know the difference and avoid seeing it.

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) October 11, 2021

Okay, so a couple things about that tweet:

1) No typo could have possibly been more ironic than misspelling Lois Lane as “Louis Lane.”

2) The “Thooperman” reference looks like a pretty clear invocation of the “gay lisp” stereotype.

3) This Superman is not Clark Kent, but rather Jon Kent, the son of Lois and Clark. So one should probably not be declaring this character is in a romantic relationship with Lois Lane.

Twitter, of course, had an absolute field day with this hot take:

Damn, this is really bigoted. But also, "Louis Lane." pic.twitter.com/LwC6aBKbj0

— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) October 11, 2021

Louis Lane was once considered as the name of Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons. #True https://t.co/BEHf033JlQ

— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) October 11, 2021

that's right @WendyRogersAZ, congrats to the happy couple, Clark Kent & Louis Lane pic.twitter.com/kRoSVbeUmQ

— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) October 11, 2021

I don't know who Louis Lane is but he sounds hot. pic.twitter.com/igdRTTJron

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) October 11, 2021

This has all the hallmarks of a parody account. I’m here for it…

— Evan Serpick (@Serps) October 11, 2021

A+ typo, can’t be beat pic.twitter.com/N5pPIO9wHj

— tvvitter user™ (@andylevy) October 11, 2021