Super #SJW Man Chapter 5
Super #SJW Man and Captain Wokeness Practice Their Secret Code and Team Cheer
[Previous Entry: Chapter 4, in which Super #SJW Man Gets a Sidekick]
Super #SJW Man and Captain Wokeness stood before a full-length mirror in Captain Wokeness’s apartment, admiring themselves and grinning from ear to ear.
They had completed their costumes with a trip to a nearby thrift shop. Super #SJW Man had added a proper purple cape, a pink canvas belt, and a single sequined glove, a la Michael Jackson. He had also found a dozen more v-neck t-shirts on which to spray paint his logo, “#SJW.”
Captain Wokeness had put together an even more outrageous outfit. He now wore a lime-green stocking cap, a bright-yellow cape, a light-red t-shirt, oversized black combat boots, and a pair of very tight-fitting, purple yoga stretch pants. He had spray painted his own logo, “#WOKE,” on the front of his shirt.
“Wow!” exclaimed Super #SJW Man. “Our costumes are so boldly nonconformist, yet subtly ironic. Totally avant-garde! Totally deck!”
“Agreed!” yelled Captain Wokeness, beaming with pride. “Question. Do we keep our old identities during the day? You know, like the way Superman would be disguised as Clark Kent and then, when there was trouble, he would change into his superhero outfit in a phone booth?”
Super #SJW Man thought about this for a moment. “Well, there aren’t any phone booths anymore, so where would we change if we were Superman? I think that superheroes in the digital age have to have their superhero costumes on at all times, so they can respond right away when evil strikes.”
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