This was something I was thinking about yesterday - how Harley’s new origin actually removed the element of choice and agency intrinsic to her original transformation. Even though Joker warped her mind, the donning of the costume, the breaking him out, all that was something done off her own impetus.
Just another reason this origin is inferior.
As for the Waller thing - oh hahahaha, fuck you, DC. Fuck you so fucking hard you chumps.
Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley in a dress.
Gnarls motherfucking Barkley in a dress.
GNARLS MOTHERFUCKING BARKLEY IN A MOTHERFUCKING DRESS.
Hell yes.
THANK YOU
The only ‘famous’ men I see in drag on my dash are thin and white. HE IS HOT AS FUCK.
that’s cee lo in the dress y’all but he can werk it
- this isn’t drag
- this is comical, it’s mocking women/femininity/CAMAB people dressing up in ‘womens’ clothing.
- this is not celebrating women or femininity or people who ‘shouldnt’ be wearing dresses doing so.
- is the queer community really so desperate and fucking blind that we think this is affirmation/acceptance?
- really you gotta flex your muscles and prove you’re hard bro?
- I’m so suss of anyone who identifies as male wearing a dress at this point. This is to get publicity, not to make their fans less bigoted (and it’s not Cee-Lo’s job to do that anyway!)
- I love his music but you’re all fools if you think this is anything but mocking.
HERE WE GET TOLD. Thanks ahb. I’m sads.
I need to see some receipts on this being Cee-lo mocking anyone.
So far the only articles I’ve found referencing Cee-lo in dresses are from a photo shoot he did with/for Gnarls Barkley while wearing a wedding dress and it was a whole thing in regards to his commitment to the project.
Considering how generally supportive I’ve seen him be of a range of individuals, I really want to see evidence to the contrary. That is to say, I don’t find it unbelievable that he’s being problematic, but I would find it highly out of character.
Also he’s not flexing shit. Cee-lo is a 300lb Black man (those are his words). He may be bulky, but he’s not muscular. That’s just how he usually carries himself (honestly, compare it to other images of him in and out of costume).
Oh, and before I forget, why is it so unbelievable that he would be wearing the dress for non-problematic reasons, say, he finds the dress attractive? Maybe this is me getting bent over nothing, but this seems like yet another call-out for a non-issue wherein a Black man showing any form of non-traditional (read: heteronormative) masculinity, or *gasp* god forbid enjoying a bit of femme drag/presentation is being attacked as homophobic straight out the gate with no receipts to back it up.
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Once again, show me the proof this was meant to be mocking or insulting, and not reflective of his own tastes or desires and I’ll retract what I’ve said in support of Cee-lo. But if those receipts don’t show up I’m gonna continue sticking up for him. And Black men in general, who wish to display something outside of the proscribed norms.
(at this point, I have no strong opinion, I just think the discussion is important and want to spread it around)
(Source: fuckyeahdangermouse)
Now before you go poopoo all over this post, we are aware that this is not an EXACT match, but what do you expect with a total spur of the moment candid photo? This is us being our normal selves!
There just happened to be a camera near by… in the perfect position . .
… .magically set on a timer… just one of those CRAZY coincidences …
Huzzah!
April: Seriously Max, can’t you let anything go?!
Maxi: Hey! I helped you eventually.
April: Yeah, after I moved the dining room table, the china cabinet, the living room couch and the recliner! All you did was help move the coffee table!!!
Maxi: Avenged Sevenfold mofo.
So, we found this little piece of lovely and realized that it looks similar to what April does everytime she comes home with a new pair of shoes.
I’m not joking, this is what I have to deal with everytime time she get shoes.
EVERYTIME.
EVERYTIME!!!!!!!
In our ongoing mission to prove to the world… . or tumblr that women are accurately portrayed in comics and naturally contort themselves into pretzels on a daily basis, we present to you another one of our daily life photos.
Here is what we normally look like when we pay our bills.
All the LOLs.
My pal Kelly Thompson has written a kick ass article, “No, it’s not equal” on the different ways that men and women are depicted in comics. Here’s a taste:
I think it’s a big problem that extends far beyond comics and like other media, it really affects the way people view women, and how women, especially young women, view themselves. I don’t think “it’s just comics” and it doesn’t matter. I think media is a powerful thing in our society and that there’s a trickle down effect in seeing these portrayals reinforced over and over again. These portrayals shape how we view and value women and contributes to everything from sexism in the work place to eating disorders. I don’t think comics are the only media to blame, but it does happen to be the medium I write about, so here we are.
I highly recommend that you pop over to Comics Should Be Good and read it. I also highly recommend that you watch this trailer for Miss Representation which hits on the theme of Kelly’s article but focuses on the media at large.
Kelly knew there would be some push back in the comments on this article and while there is lots and lots of positive support, the con of that is, well, here’s a sample:
When I hear Fems argue for more representations of fat, slovenly, lazy men as love interests in female power/sex fantasy oriented Romance Novels, maybe I might give a damn about their hissy fit over superhero comics.
or this!
This is essentially about censorship. Saying bad art doesn’t deserve to exist because it offends your political beliefs is not acceptable in a free society. Maybe you wouldn’t jail an anime fan for child porn or assassinate a cartoonist for depicting Mohammed, but you are on the same side of the fence as the people who do. If only there was some sort of legal defense fund for comic books.
Fun times!
Given the aggressive defense of the BOOBZ and TITZ and BROKEBACK in comics by some (and come on this isn’t about a little cheesecake which I can enjoy), I am going to ask the same question that I asked on Twitter a few days ago after this story, by David Brothers (which you should also go read) appeared on Comics Alliance:
If you like Kelly’s article, please let her know.
Ok so April and I have been seeing all these COMPLAINTS about how “unrealistic” and “sexist” comic books are in the way they portray women and their bodies.
WELL we have decided that you are all crazy feminists and there is nothing wrong with how women are drawn in comic books.
So to prove this we have decided to show you that not only are women portrayed realistically in comics, but we do most of these so called “impossible” and “ridiculous” poses on a daily basis just by naturally going about our buisness.
And if THIS doesn’t convince you, just wait ‘til next week! We plan to post a new picture each Wednesday and friday. And if you think that this is some sort of joke or that this is not how we perform tasks on a daily basis, then fuck you! You don’t know our lives.
We DEFY you to find a pose that we don’t do on normal, average day…..come at us bro!
LOL XD OH GOD LET THIS BECOME A MEME
The rising discontent with the treatment of female comic book readers and creators by the comics mainstream bubbled over on social networks this week after two new releases: the results of DC’s Neilsen Survey on their New 52 reboot and the premiere of Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men. DC’s…
This is a great response to the whole controversy thing. And I agree, I did ask a more open ended question than the survey did, it was completely off the cuff.
However, stores were routinely saying that their comics buying customers were up to 30%. I don’t think it necessarily suggests that it means those customers aren’t buying DCnU titles, it is just as likely, if not more so, that it suggests that the survey was flawed.
Which I absolutely think it was. We need a much, much wider in store sampling. 167 in store surveys is statistically too few to pay attention to.
There are anecdotal questions as well, and methodological ones. First, my friends who were hit up for surveys said the questioners were incredibly aggressive. That may well have been a turn-off for potential female participants. I also want to know when these surveys took place, as several store owners said their female customers are much less rigid about showing up on new release day.
I think the survey was very flawed. It’s possible that retailers who saw my question are biased somewhat towards female customers being significant, but when stores are routinely saying women are 20-30 percent of their base, it would be a fatal flaw to allow the idea of a 7% female readership take hold without scrutiny.
I think it would be more useful to ask the retailers directly. They are there every day, they know their customer base.
But I am deeply skeptical.
I live in China mainland. I’m a woman. This is the imported comics I purchased through Amazon. cn last year. You can even see the Chinese version of Green Lantern: Secret Origin. (It was officially introduced into China last year.) This stack of comics made me SVIP of Amazon. cn last year, because exchange rate made them cost me dearly.
Thank you Mr. Smith, for letting me know that since I own such a stack, I’m just not any kind of female humanbeing. Thank you. I might just buy a tablet instead to maintain my SVIP, and read some serious English novel or professional books.
I’m sorry that comment made you feel that way, I don’t blame you a bit. All the work that’s been done to promote and celebrate the wider readership, which included people of all genders, and we still have goofyass comments like this. It’s ridiculous, and the justifications for it (“It’s reality!”) are insulting.
I have never had a beef with Kevin Smith, he does what he does and that’s fine for the people who want that.
But Kevin Smith does not speak for the industry or all of us IN the industry or for all comic shops, many of whom are run by women, owned by women, and supported by women.
And THAT’S reality, Kevin.
ALL I want to know is why ANYONE is allowing Kevin Smith to continue to write comics. He seems to be universally derided as incredibly, unbelievably BAD AT IT. Certainly my experience of him as a comic writer has been: HE IS FUCKING ATROCIOUS.
I got bored of Kevin Smith over three years ago. Guys? His work reflects his incredibly limited mentality: misogynistic, homophobic, racist, superficial, contrivedly ‘edgy’ and juvenile. Stop fucking paying money for it. FFS.
(Source: boatbuildercomic.com)
I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, stomp my feet on the floor and scream “No! No, you cannot make me, I won’t, leave me alone!” I am, simply put, too tired. So very, very tired.
I am tired of fighting with my friends. I am tired of arguing that someone groping and slapping my butt isn’t “what I have to expect”, just because I’m at a bar, and the one attacking my butt has a drink in the other hand. I am tired of hearing “boys will be boys” and “when you’re dressed like that …” and “that’s just what guys do”. I am tired of trying to drown those sentiments in loud, repetitive no’s, screamed over and over again, till my throat is sore and my voice weak – just to hear them repeated, as soon as exhaustion threatens to silence me.
I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate clicking “submit”. I am tired of knowing that I hesitate because I am afraid of the flood of responses that will come. I am tired of knowing that I will be bombarded with lighten up’s, stop whining’s and get a sense of humor’s for so long, that I will start to wonder if I am indeed wound up too tight, a nagger and humorless. I am tired of the fact that I’m afraid of being called a cunt, even though I don’t find genitalia insulting or demeaning.
"(via notafraidofruins)
This is a really frustrating feeling. It really, really is, and the problem is even worse for the trans* and POC community (who are liable to suffer much more than just name-calling), and the whole thing just gets so ridiculous and infuriating sometimes.
(via wonderwomanv2)
Yannow what super-duper sucks? Being tired of being a feminist in the fucking queer community and having anti-racism, anti-ableism and anti-cissexism treated as a joke, or worse - as is the trend in Sydney at the moment - as “thought-policing”.
I mean, I expect this shit from the straight community, though I hate it. But you queers should know better. :/
Fangushing and resources on Harley Quinn and the Joker. You know me as the babe who runs www.harley-quinn.com.
Anyways, this is where I'm a fan geek.
