Thanks but no thanks. Outside of the occassional pair of Underoos I wore as a child, I've never felt the desire to dress up like a super-hero.

Same with Spandex. The vast majority of superheroes (and villains) clearly wear something other than Spandex, so using the word to describe the whole is, at the least inaccurate, at the worst just lazy.

In any case, in the end it comes down to something I see all too often in comics, and upon which I have commented many times before. That's a tendency of some fans to use the wrong terms ("bubbles" instead of balloons, "boxes" instead of panels, "Spiderman") and then become defensive about it when corrected. In most human pursuits alledgedly for pleasure, knowing what you're talking about is part of the fun. A football "fan" who called the teams headgear "caps" would not last long if he started arguing his "right" to do so. Why should it be different in comics? Are people really so embarassed to be "caught" seeming to care?