In the first place, the whole concept of dressing up in colorful suits to indicate you have special powers is weird. Wild animals need bright colors to advertise that they may be poisonous, superheroes don't really need that (See Batman, Invisible Man 
). May be they think by making themselves easy to spot, it's less work because criminals will moderate their behaviour.
Then again, superheroes were invented when N. America was in deep shit. So may be no one cares if Superman was (still is) wearing his pair of bright red thongs outside when he could tackle huge problems. The artists probably thought that he needed a colorful characters to brighten up the dull, dreadful real world too.
So today, to fix the problem you complain, you'll have to take it to the comics world first.
Also, have you been to Folsom Parade in San Francisco ? I think you underestimated the shock value. We had to wheel our Asian friend's old mother away quickly coz she nearly died of heart attack there. She demanded her son to return to their country with her after the parade.
). May be they think by making themselves easy to spot, it's less work because criminals will moderate their behaviour.Then again, superheroes were invented when N. America was in deep shit. So may be no one cares if Superman was (still is) wearing his pair of bright red thongs outside when he could tackle huge problems. The artists probably thought that he needed a colorful characters to brighten up the dull, dreadful real world too.
So today, to fix the problem you complain, you'll have to take it to the comics world first.
Also, have you been to Folsom Parade in San Francisco ? I think you underestimated the shock value. We had to wheel our Asian friend's old mother away quickly coz she nearly died of heart attack there. She demanded her son to return to their country with her after the parade.
