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Season 3: Batman was going down on Catwoman - "No Way" says DC!

posted 3 years ago by Satan2016 (25525)
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OK for Harley to wake up in bed with Poison Ivy though!

How ‘WandaVision,’ ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ ‘Harley Quinn’ Subvert the Superhero Genre
https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/subverting-superhero-tv-wandavision-harley-quinn-umbrella-academy-1234992069/

“It’s incredibly gratifying and free to be using characters that are considered villains because you just have so much more leeway,” says Halpern. “A perfect example of that is in this third season of ‘Harley’ [when] we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’ They’re like, ‘Heroes don’t do that.’ So, we said, ‘Are you saying heroes are just selfish lovers?’ They were like, ‘No, it’s that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.’”

[–] kukuxu (5409) 3 years ago

Subverting?

You subvert when you do something which is different from the politically correct use. Nowadays, you subvert if you dare to introduce villains that are not white males. Or you subvert if you dare to introduce new white male characters that are not evil or feeble. That's subversion.

Displaying a female lead with a pussy-pass premium, where's the subversion?? That's just neo-traditionalism, it's the new politically correct tradition.

[–] Leodicaprio (6426) 3 years ago

off your meds I see

yes the joker is a white guy. so they have to have the least white least conventional person as the bad guy or else its woke?

if they introduced a new bad character and it was a black transexual you'd scream how woke THAT is

[–] TMC-4 (20150) 3 years ago

DC banning Harley Quinn from showing Batman performing oral sex on Catwoman sends a "pretty bleak" message about female sexuality

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/15/batman-catwoman-oral-sex-scene-cut-womens-pleasure/

While Harley Quinn co-creator Justin Halpern's revelation to Variety -- that DC was afraid of ruining Batman's toy market -- "has caused any number of humorous reactions on social media and in the superhero sexual discourse, the underlying reason for erasing this scene is more upsetting," says Kylie Cheung. "Somehow, that toy marketing argument just doesn't wash. Harley Quinn is billed as a show for adults and even carries a TV-MA rating. Its adult content – rampant portrayals of murder, blood, other violence and racy humor – hasn't been a deterrent for selling toys of so-called 'heroes' so far. DC can attempt to make any excuse it wants, in this case, pretty explicitly discouraging men from going down on a woman if they have any dream of being a superhero. But Halpern's recollection of the exchange with DC reads pretty transparently as what it is, which is discomfort with female sexuality and pleasure, when it's not catered to the male gaze, or in service of male pleasure. In fact, if a powerful, macho superhero is supposedly the pinnacle of masculinity to which men must aspire, the message here is pretty bleak — that pleasing a female partner is somehow less masculine, and masculinity is defined only by being pleased. With male superheroes being defined by their refusal to give women head, it's no surprise supervillains are becoming more and more appealing."