The Over-Sexualization of Harley Quinn

>It seems that the objective of Harley Quinn is to please hormonal teenage comic book geeks by making her outfits skimpier and to sell a bunch of Hot Topic T-shirts. She is a consistent cosplay choice at most comic conventions. It honestly upsets me every time I hear someone say they want to be like Harley because she is badass. It upsets me even worse when they say they want a relationship just like Joker and Harley. It shows they don't know what they are talking about and that they completely missed the point of her. Domestic violence is a dumb thing that exists, but the hard reality is that it does exist. Harley Quinn was made with the best of intentions and those intentions have now been squandered by the culture we now live in.

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I saw this article all over my facebook today. A lot of mixed reactions. Discuss.

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Today I learned that only harmonal teenagers comic geeks like Harley. Which is why she's constantly displayed by grown women at conventions!

Damn it that is so close to the right proportions for the banner contest.

over sexualizing doesn't exist. A key component of sexuality is visualizing your partner. They're just using the most basic part of human brain to sell shit.

People that have arguments against this are usually ugly or have some in-grained bias to start with that has nothing to do with what they're talking about.

Stop making bait threads.

>Oh and that Suicide Squad movie will be out soon.
>Better capitalize on it with some shitty "whiny" bullshit to get clicks!

>in-grained
10/10

>It honestly upsets me every time I hear someone say they want to be like Harley because she is badass. It upsets me even worse when they say they want a relationship just like Joker and Harley. It shows they don't know what they are talking about and that they completely missed the point of her.

The thing is, though, lots of females would like to be in an abusive relationship with a charming asshole. Lots.

I can't even blame them, because my ex was pretty abusive with me. She only emotionally, but physically as well, and despite knowing i shouldn't i still miss her. Sometimes i catch myself caressing the scars she left in my body while thinking fondly of her. It's fucked up, but we've have fucked up brains.

Over sexualizing is just shorthand for flamboyantly sexual representing. Don't get your ass tied in a knot, user.

>my boyfriend beats me but I dress up in leather and hot topic so I'm actually a strong womens!
>plenty of dudes are more than glad to take advantage of this
Harley fangirls are beyond fucked. At least ignorance is bliss.

Usually the people in abusive relationship, that is, the victim, think of themselves as the emotional pillar of the relationship. They pity their abusive partners, thinking that it is their duty to take the beating and hold on and be strong to keep them together. They see themselves as a survivor and the better partner.

>oversexualizing doesn't exist
yes it does

oversexualizing isn't just a thing that women hate, men can hate shitty character whose sex appeal is so played up that it's actually not sexy at all

That partially describes Harley. She stays with Joker because she believes she can make him a better person, but at the same time admires his genius. Unfortunately she'll never keep his interest because Joker's more passionate about batcock than clowncock.

>WAAAAAAAHHHHH WHY CAN'T ALL WOMEN WEAR BURKAS??!!!!!
Liberals are so autistic.
This is why we deserve stuff like Nice to happen.
Because we let Liberals cuck society.
I wish WW3 would happen already.

>Harley Quinn was made with the best of intentions
What does this mean?

>people who describe Joker and Harley with things like relationship goals

Bruce Timm does DC better than anyone else.

Another Disney payed article, just before the Suicide Squad movie come to the theaters. Disney/Marvel, your propaganda becomes disgusting at this point and pathetically predictable

>That episode where Harley and Ivy spend Christmas as lesbians

way to rob Harley of her agency shitlords!

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Um...so we are just supposed to forget all the Right Wingers trying to curb anything remotely fun for years as well albeit for slightly different reasons.

Some literally who has a retarded opinion?! This is an outrage!!

This is the craziest shit i've read all day.

Yes we call those men gay and/or nutless.

#rekt

That the writer doesn't know what he's talking about. Paul Dini was a 30+ year old vacuous actress-chasing virgin when he created her.

>x is too sexual
duly noted and ignored

That's easy as butter to say when you most likely live in a place where the shit won't even come close to the fan.

Everybody on both sides have become ultra sensitive about everything.

I agree with you,but most outlets take the crazy part of Left Wing more seriously now,once they figure out that clowns like Anita are just as insane as people like Glen Beck it may stop.But yes that guy you're responding to is insane.

>wanting many different types of sexy not just mainstream sexy
>nutless or gay
You sure they're the ones gay or with low sex drive user? I don't want to fuck a living mannequin.

theres a couple at my university that does this and it makes me want to throw up

>written by a man
Always funny.

>Not having Harley & Ivy as relationship goals

What's wrong with those people!?

>I don't want to fuck a living mannequin.

what kinda faggot are you?

>whiny bullshit

But the reasons just quoted here is the exact same shit Sup Forums bitches about happening to her. Only thing off is forgetting to mention its the women that help drive the whorley personality.

She was more appealing when she actually looked like a harlequin. The Hot Topicization is an attempt at getting normalfags into the character.

It might also be because they wanted her to look less like Deadpool who has black and red as his color scheme while they built up her as a company counterpart to him. Instead of Ambush Bug who could've used some of the levity and depth that Deadpool has.

More likely it's just a hamfisted attempt at movie pandering, similar to
justice League origin or the New 52's creation.

Your loss mate.

She really wasn't

enjoy your granny porn, brazzers

she's completely correct, dc's constant pushing of harley and joker as a couple is stupid, and the fact that we're now seeing stories where harley is a strong independant woman, and stories where the joker actually loves her, is just another sign of a good story being warped for commercialization

Lel what?

Some people agree with this, some people don't.

>she

to be fair, Harley's original outfit is still the best, and every Arkham shit costume is garbage

i'm not going to click on shit just to see who wrote the article

The kind that thinks classic Harley is hotter than bullshit Margot Harley, clearly.

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I actually really enjoyed Harley's solo comics from the early 2000s

Those were really good

Sup Forums has been bitching about Harley being sexualized?

Where's this from?

>Not having Harley & Ivy as relationship goals

That would just be trading one abusive, manipulative relationship for another.

I always thought that Harley used her sexuality as a weapon? Or maybe that's just how I've justified her hyper-sexulisation in my head. I do miss TAS Harley costume ;_;

I'm starting to pick up the trades. Is it still any good after Karl Kesel leaves writing duties?

Wasn't that just a plant monster Ivy made for Harley so she wouldn't be lonely?

Its still good, maybe a wee bit less,but i still enjoyed it,it gets a little darker and more violent.

Yep. It gets a crime noir style to it, no more metas or anything like Kesel though, it gets more grounded

Only Dini write them like that, and even he doesn't write them like that all the time, example pic related

I always thought she was undersexualized.

Cuck article by SJWs. Not even reading it.

Is this a joke?

..go on? You can't leave it like that user.

>"Gwenpool is an original idea"
Checkmate, Gwencucks.

I dunno, it is?

To be fair, I don't really understand her appeal beyond her tits, either.

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>You're only here because I need you to breathe

relationship goals indeed.

>you will never bandage an unconscious Harley's tits

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Yep, relationship goals

Jesus, that top quote looks like something out of a middle school girl's diary.

Thanks user. That was cute, if a bit lacking in detail and with progression issues. I wanted a tsundere not-apology from Ivy for poisoning her.

>I need you to breath

Gosh, subtext: the comic.

Can I get the comic? All I'm getting are blogs and some clickbait sites.

Is a backup story from Batman Adventures v2

Oldest excuse, lol

Shes supposed to be insane like the joker. Like, of course shes sexy and fit, but people are supposed to be like "If only she didnt look like a homicidal clown, then maybe..."

Not supposed to ACTUALLY get your wish, her no longer looking like she has anything to do with the Joker.

Hey, why not just give her a cheerleader outfit and some pom poms? THERES an original character. Dont want her to be TOO FREAKY....

I'm mixed on Harley in general. Sure, she has become one of Batman's most recognizable rogues, and as a man she does good things for my peen.

That and her subtext turned text with Ivy. But I don't understand her break-out and rise to prominence to the point she has several ongoings, a large role in Injustice, AND now is practically the star of her own movie (which just so happens to be only the third DCEU release thus far.)

It's slightly baffling. I still find her little more than slightly entertaining in the same way my clownish friend is. In small doses, she can be fun, but as she lingers she just gets annoying.

Ty user, would you guys recommend Batman Adventures as a whole?

>Harley Quinn was made with the best of intentions and those intentions have now been squandered by the culture we now live in.
What intentions are we talking about here? Was Harley intended to be some kind of warning to girls to not become a mentally unstable turboslut who chases after a toxic and abusive relationship?

Only Volume 1 (which is based in early BTAS). Volume 2 is shit

>I will never be able to kidnap Harley Quinn and then rape her in front of the Joker while he laughs it off
damn

If she is, it didn't work...

Wait. Is that a picture of Supergirl?

Yep

Oh yeah, I remember that rocket-themed villain.

You guys rant more about SJWs than my 38 year old father in law who still goes out drinking and thinks fighting black guys and watching guys fuck his wife for coke is cool.

>Forgetting the first female orgasm shown in a kids cartoon

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Nope. It's what they actually published and it was intended to be taken 100% seriously
It was back when DC went all in on the SJW bandwagon
I'm pretty sure they got 90% of it out of their system now so we should be Gucci from here on out

Along with other characters that show lots of cleavage/skin. It's almost like men like boobs and women like attention and the relationship is mutually beneficial. But no, some people just can't accept that.

w-what

Don't lie to user like that, you will give him a heart attack and a aneurysm

>It seems that the objective of Harley Quinn is to please hormonal teenage comic book geeks

The only thing that bothers me here is that once again comic fans are getting the blame when it's clearly fans of the Arkham games and deranged women ho want this Harley

>She is a consistent cosplay choice at most comic conventions
This is the one point that matters.
They're making Harley easier to cosplay for attention-starved sluts who don't read comics but effectively function as booth babes that PAY YOU to help boost event sales through sex appeal.

the odyssey online will literally publish your 16 year old sister with too much time a laptop and a starbucks visit.

on the topic though, I agree that harley has been oversexualized. Lots of Bat's rogues get misinterpreted, look at the the joker for god's sake.

Holy fuck, how is current Harley Quinn men's fault? All of her new comics are made to appeal to women, this idiot doesn't know what she's talking about.

OP pic is hot as fuck.

God that was such a good read.

I was going to say, her outfit in the comics right now is basically like a football outfit or something, isn't it?

and try to find any male comic fan who likes Harley post-BTAS