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Topic subjectI dunno. Sexist just b/c she's crying?
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694670, I dunno. Sexist just b/c she's crying?
Posted by lonesome_d, Thu Mar-19-15 09:17 PM
Most of the complaints seem centered around the general idea that the cover is rapey as much as anything else, and I don't really see that either. And in the story it was referencing, Babs was crying... with good reason. The way people are reacting, it's like it's not okay for a hero/ine to be portrayed as scared.

I get it, it just seems a bit heavy-handed to me, especially when there's stuff like Ame-Comi Girls on the DC shelves. The Catwoman and Outsiders NU52 reboots caused a furor, but none of that stuff got pulled. But who am I to judge whether someone should be offended or find something sexist.

That said, everyone involved agreed to pull it rather than offend some readers, and that's great. Albequerque's statement was quite gentlemanly and the whole thing seems to have been handled quite well.