http://www.politedissent.com/archives/519 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:25:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.politedissent.com/archives/519/comment-page-1#comment-2400 Johanna Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:35:17 +0000 http://politedissent.com/archives/519#comment-2400 You have an interesting perspective, but I have a hard time seeing a woman calling herself a "whore" as "acceptance". There's so much that would have to be involved in the psychology of a character like that. I find the simpler explanation to be that the writers were demonstrating the troublesome treatment of female characters too often seen in DC, and specifically their, comics (see also 21 Down and Hawkman). You have an interesting perspective, but I have a hard time seeing a woman calling herself a “whore” as “acceptance”. There’s so much that would have to be involved in the psychology of a character like that. I find the simpler explanation to be that the writers were demonstrating the troublesome treatment of female characters too often seen in DC, and specifically their, comics (see also 21 Down and Hawkman).

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