#AceDay and Why Batman Should Come Out as Asexual

At last! Yesterday we finally celebrated what so many have been planning for months, mouths watering at the delectable delicacies that await: Happy Ace Day, everyone (…oh, and that other holiday, I guess)! As a very out and proud member of the asexual community I’ve decided to have a little post-celebration here at Black Nerd Problems by sharing an argument for one of my personal favorite ace headcanons, asexual Batman. But before I get too far into what asexuality is and why I think it fits Batman as an orientation, let’s clear up why it’s so necessary for big name comic book characters to be confirmed for so-called “invisible” orientations in general. In the wake of the announcement of Deadpool’s pansexuality earlier this month (which is a bit like announcing “Ice is cold, everybody!”) nerd meninists everywhere lost it over how comics shouldn’t be used as political opportunities at the expense of the character. To some extent, I get it. Choosing to have a less than elementary understanding of how people and orientations can be diversely depicted despite access to abundant resources via a simple Google search must be frustrating, especially when it follows so closely on the heels of Andrew Garfield daring to suggest that Spider-Man could be pansexual as well. But even though LBGTQIA+ representation has begun flourishing in earnest in the comics industry (as I wrote a little about here), there are still some identities that are just much harder to articulate in print. Asexu…