Batgirl Cover Canceled

The fact this cover was canceled because idiots thought it promoted violence towards women is a shame. Let me be clear; not feminist, but idiots who think they are helping women by turning them into victims every chance they get.

The Joker is a horrible monster of a person a cover with him on it SHOULD be unpleasant that is the entire point. The cover is dark just from the simple image you can understand that what Joker is doing is bad, so how is showing something bad promoting it? I guess “out of sight out of mind” is the logic these people use for their decision making. They would have had to present this in a positive light for them to be promoting it. If anyone is raped or killed in fiction is that promoting rape and killing? No of course not it takes a huge failure of logic to make that leap.

This cover paid homage to one of the best and most renowned stories ever “The Killing Joke” which was a HUGE part of Barbra’s history and was crucial to her character and to her becoming a better hero and moving past the role of side kick. It’s a shame people who are claiming “this is suppose to be a book for new readers” want to rob new readers of one of the MOST quintessential Batgirl stories there is by just pretending it doesn’t exist.

Some times you need to show the horror to teach people empathy because some things are too evil for some people to really imagine. If you can’t handle that then just don’t read it and do the world a favor by shutting up until you’re mature enough to handle uncomfortable subjects. Pretending sexual assault doesn’t exist actually just goes to future victimize and isolate sexual assault victims. Learn to look past your own self righteous ignorance people.

It’s also really unfair to the artist, writer of “The Killing Joke”, and even DC Comics as a whole trying to twist something that really showed the evil and vileness of sexual assault and created a personal conviction against it for 1000s of fans of Barbra who loved the character, into something that allegedly promotes violence towards woman. As if referencing/showing something awful is endorsing it.

There is no actual argument here that proves the people who got this covered pulled right. Violence towards women/domestic/sexual abuse is a real issue in the world, so you are suggesting we pretend it doesn't happen ever and just make sure no one is aware of anything bad happening? Great way to deal with a problem just pretend it doesn't exist and protest anything that reminds you of it.

This cover is referencing the story The Killing Joke which was is honestly without contest the most important story for Barbra's character. What did It lead to? Her becoming a better hero and it helped her evolve past the role of side kick and become her own hero. What did the people who actually read the story walk away with? Long time fans who actually had real feelings for the character felt real empathy for Barbra and a sincere disgust/conviction against sexual crimes more so then a person would feel by default. Comic books make more political/social stances then all the movies and tv shows combined each year, so great job taking something that dealt with a subject most would rather just ignore or pretend didn't exist, and instead tackled it head on and really put it out there for people to see and raised awareness of something truly awful and twisting it into the exact opposite trying to claim it promotes violence towards women.

It'd be one thing if this was like Lois Lane or Vicki Vale but come on, this is Batgirl we're talking about. The whole purpose of female superheroes is to fight crime, even especially if the villain is threatening violence towards women.

Exactly.

I hear you, man

Everything is sexist and racist these days.

Yup, DC pussed out.

Yeah you're right.

Two of my threads cot locked for sexism

Unless the cover had anything to do with the content inside of the book itself(rather than just a gimmicky pr stunt for the Joker as a character) I do think the cover was out of place and served no purpose. Of all the ways to show the Joker on a cover he isn't involved in(if that's the case) that would be one of the worst ways to do it imo.

Feminists are so annoying. They yell about everything, as soon as a woman is portrayed sexy or in danger. They should just shut the fck up and go cry in a corner about how sexist men are.

On the other hand... There has been plenty of covers where male superheroes has been overpowered by their villains and are completely at their not-existing mercy... But not one where the male hero was crying.

But then again, no one thinks any of it when it's the other way around, when a woman is abusive toward a man on a comic cover. Like this:

Could not say it better than you did pal

@deathpoolthet1000:

Eh?

@waezi2: I think that image makes fun or the type of idiot who doesn't allow for intelligence to persevere and instead takes all of their internal issues and tries to turn it into some kind of social injustice resulting in extreme activism stupidity. The kind of feminist who try their hardest to label women as victims every chance they get.

Amen.

Nowadays every single thing offends someone.

If you disagree with someone or something you are always deemed racist, sexist, or something of that nature.

That is an irrefutable truth.

Those sexists at DC would never put Batman in such a helpless, compromising cover. Oh wait. . .

. . . Nevermind.

@roboadmiral: But he's not crying

@roboadmiral: The difference in most of those is Batman was simply beaten in a fight. He isn't a. refusing to fight just because the Joker has a gun out or b. having a terrorized look on his face with tears coming out of his eyes because of it. That is the difference.

@spambot: Actually that is what's happening in the Court of Owls ones if you read those books. It's kind of a moot point in the end when there there have been covers with Daredevil and other male heroes crying and unable to fight back on their covers do to a personal tragedy.

@teerack: Another difference is those covers actually had something to do with the content of the books they were on wherein the Batgirl cover has nothing to do with the content. Its just DC showing her looking that way as a way to commemorate the Joker being 75 yrs old which makes it in even poorer taste. Even the guy who drew it admitted it was in poor taste for her book and asked DC to stop the variant version.

@deathpoolthet1000: That's a great video.

DC pussied out, and they should not have canceled the cover. SJW's need to frig off

I guess the cover of my favorite comic of all time ever shouldn't exist. Sorry Knightfall you're just to violent for the SJWs. :(