We Can Be (Non-Super) Heroes
Making Light drew my attention to comic publishers Marvel and DC, who are claiming to own the term "super hero". I'm not a lawyer, but I would have thought that if the Biro brand name can become generic through extensive use, then "super hero" (a rational juxtaposition of non-proprietary words) should be considered public domain by now.
If Marvel and DC succeed
in owning the words we all read
they should be embarking
quite soon on trademarking
their hero, known only as "Greed".
Perhaps the term "super hero" should be struck from our language completely. It's a discriminatory concept that encourages ideas of superiority of one person over others.
PC has begun a new thrust:
"Superlative names are unjust!"
Now Differently Enabled
Man, miffed and mislabeled,
has hung up his cape in disgust.