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Post by lenlenlen1 on Mar 9, 2017 20:28:11 GMT
The entire basis for her character is frankly riddled with misogyny. She's a character who's primarily defined by her relation to a male character, and how said character always treats her like crap. Even her friendship with Poison Ivy in the DCAU was more or less sexual in nature, which suggests that the writers primarily cared about using her to vent out their fetishes. Her backstory only makes it worse, since it establishes that she was once a really lousy psychiatrist who pretty much only got a PhD because she bribed her college professors with sex, and was easily manipulated into falling in love with the most blatant psychopath in all of Gotham. Hell, if anything, the New 52 version of her is actually less demeaning, since she's actually moved on from the Joker in those comics, and is now more or less independent. All good points, and in a way I agree. I like Harley only in that in her more recent version she is freed from her obsession with Joker and has become her own person. Well, at least to some degree. Personally I think she's still too attached to him. Maybe her struggle to be freed of him is what makes her an interesting character (?). But honestly, I think its just that she's wild, wacky and carefree that make her so attractive and actually blind fans to her more unappealing qualities as a character.
I hope they explore the contradiction more in the upcoming Gotham City Sirens movie because in the Suicide Squad movie she was just as you describe her.
I still love the character somehow, but yeah, she's got issues that don't support how popular she is. You'd think her being so submissive to an abusive psychopath would make her less attractive to her female fan base.
Slightly OT, Deadpool is the same to me. A thin character who is somehow hugely popular.
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