Just so everyone knows, The Boys comic book is written and made by people who have openly admitted to hating superheroes, and the point of the book was to be a satire and deconstruction of the genre.

I am a hardcore superhero fan, I've been one all my life. But during my childhood, or whenever I was out in public wearing a Spider-Man shirt (or something like that) I never once felt save or secure about myself, because i was afraid of the ridicule, scorn, mockery, and bullying that regular people who do love and enjoy escapist fiction face from people who love to make people feel inferior, lonely, and like an outcast, simply because I like something.

Superheroes, (and nerd culture in general), has been portrayed in a hurtful depiction for too long, that no one feels safe to be who they are because of some angry, mean, rotten, bully who thinks their smarter, more adult, wiser, and are so progressive every time they mock you and others. That to mean is the message and intent I get from both the comic and this show.

People like to stereotype superheroes as an male adolescent power fantasy. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that. We often forget that Superheroes have evolved as a genre. Granted it took forever for a Wonder Woman movie to get made, and a lot of the respected publishers of Superhero comics don't promote their books as they should be for a general audience, but in the end it doesn't matter, so long as the product is good, and is about being a hero with powers and abilities, and willing to stand up for what is right.

We live in a world today, where violent, terrible, unrepentant people with real power, use it to commit atrocities in the name of selfishness, greed, and everything evil.

Superheroes are characters meant to boost morals, and inspire us to want to be better people. Costumes, symbols, superpowers, and escapist elements are good ways to draw inspiration from and use every day. I know the difference between fiction and fantasy, but what is so unbelievable and fictious about being a good person, or wanting to be a good person.

Then you have The Boys, taking a genre that is meant to be geared towards everyone, (especially little kids), and have it be bloody violent, with sexual assault, torture, rape, reinforcing demeaning social issues that inflict minorities.

I realize this show is trying to be a deconstruction of the superhero genre, but it's not. These are not heroes. These are supervillains, and supervillains are people with power who use it to do evil things.

The writer of this comic series, is very cynical and say, "Come on, it's true to real life. I mean wouldn't anyone with that kind of power really want to use it to good and help people like you and man".

Kindness, compassion, and decently are thing the world needs, and we will always need. People need to be reminded about that with things like superhero media, because superheroes are ultimately about kindness and decency and can inspire us.

What I find cathartic about the people who bullied me for liking escapist fiction is, those people probably never learn, or understand the meaning of empathetic or decent, and instead decided to lord that power as a way to make themselves feel large. And they could've be decent, kind, and compassionate, (everyone simply just wants to be noble and kind), but they weren't.

A little empathy, humility, and imagination, and people can be better then how they used to behave.

I don't have patience, or tolerance for shows like this. This show pushes the envelope into gross, edgy nonsense to try to win over people who already hate superheroes, or are bullies that already mock and bully people for liking superheroes, or are just people who behave with that whole shallow culture that is just so ugly and insecure that it just reinforces bullying and intolerance.

I don't know if we're ever going to live in a world where people are free to be who they are and be happy enjoying what they love and finding other people that like what they do. But shows like The Boys, just reinforce bullying, and instead depict superheroes as pedophiles who rape and kill anyone that want because they figure "Who be stupid to want to fight me", or have moronic and hate filled characters like bill the butcher who are overly cynical and are design to remind people that life just plainly sucks and there is nothing you can do about it, or do anything to make it better. This show is garbage, I don't even want to rate this show. Because I feel like giving it any kind of mark is just too kind.