The sex scandals in U.S. politics over the past twenty or more years related to interns, including one involving a closeted gay congressman, have made the word "intern" something of a loaded a term in the U.S.
With that in mind, does DC--a company that's spent the past fifty years fighting against the Dr. Wertham "Batman is a gay pedophile" slur--really want to conjure up the image of Batman having young male interns?
