Comments on: Group calls Black Canary Barbie ‘filth’

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By: Imaginarium Toys

Imaginarium Toys — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:19:33 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:40:19 +0000

But if you call her “biker Barbie”, you can’t make the “lashed by the public” joke.

By: Jill a.k.a. The Nerdy Bird

Jill a.k.a. The Nerdy Bird — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:52:01 +0000

Haha oh dear this is amusing. Fishnets apparently equals prostitute. Then again, I was dressed as Zatanna for the NYCC this year and coming back late at night to the hotel with my boyfriend who was dressed normally made me feel like the hotel employees thought I was a prostitute so there you go.

If you don’t know Black Canary I would call this Biker Barbie maybe but not S&M.

By: Deco

Deco — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:59:06 +0000

Hey, and you know what? These are like $40 a pop — they’re NOT for kids (that said, I don’t know why they’re picking on Canary, the Catwoman doll HAS A WHIP!)

By: Deco

Deco — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:56:12 +0000

My daughter (3) has tons of Barbies, mostly disney princesses — WITHOUT EXCEPTION they end up “naked” — she pulls the clothes off and takes them in the bath, plays in the sand. Occasionally I have to put the dresses back on. So it doesn’t matter how they’re dressed — “you’re. a. toy!”

(btw, I’m getting my daughter hooked on DC heroes — her big fave is “womber woman” — pretty sure some of these DC heroine barbies are in our future.)

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:48 +0000

For those of us who have been reading comics all our lives, we sometimes forget how characters like Black Canary, Hawkman and J’onn look to the rest of the world, and especially if they were real people.

Imagine a formal diplomatic event, and Dinah attends as the leader of the Justice League.

Not that I don’t personally love the outfit and will be buying the Barbie the day it comes out!

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:43:45 +0000

“Must. Remove. Stick. From. Butt.”

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:01:00 +0000

Christian Voice is – as far as I’ve ever seen – one supremely irrelevant prick named Stephen Green, a man so committed to the premises of Christianity and the love inherent in Jesus’ teachings that when he failed in his attempt to get a court injunction to stop BBC2 airing JERRY SPRINGER: THE MUSICAL, he published the home addresses and phone numbers of the programme-makers and BBC2 directors on his website. Not in the hope that people would hurt them or anything. Oh no. Heaven forfend.

Essentially, he’s Falwell circa 1992, but with practically no money and about three people who take him seriously, one of whom is a Sun journalist, and nobody takes *them* seriously.

By: Jason M. Bryant

Jason M. Bryant — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:21:57 +0000

Kelson, that’s an interesting point. On the other hand, if I was in the elevator with a guy dressed as the Flash and I didn’t know there was a con, I’d probably think he was a freak, too. It would be even worse if he was wearing a spandex costume I didn’t recognise.

I can *kinda* see the point of the objection, but it’s a doll. That’s just as much a make-believe world as comics and cartoons. Unless someone’s eight year old daughter is much more familiar with S&M gear than my nieces were, she’s not going to make that association. She’s going to believe what the box says about this being a super hero outfit. If the kid *can* recognise S&M gear, then the doll isn’t that kid’s problem.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:45:45 +0000

I wish I could remember where, but a year or so ago I read a blog post by a woman who had worn a Black Canary costume to a convention or to a costume party. At the hotel/apartment building, she ended up in an elevator with someone who was not there for the con/party, clearly not a comics person, and clearly thought she was there for a completely different reason. Naturally, she found this very disturbing, and afterward she found herself thinking about context: within the context of super-heroes, the outfit was empowering. Outside that context, people jumped to the opposite conclusion.

By: Jason M. Bryant

Jason M. Bryant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:45:23 +0000

Here’s the thing that really bewilders me. If I do a google image search for “Barbie swimsuit” I find lots of different Barbie dolls wearing less clothing than this Black Canary version.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:55:46 +0000

Somebody needs to read a comic… and get laid.

Yes, even more so than the fanboys and fangirls!

By: Oliver Queen

Oliver Queen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:53:10 +0000

Finally! A Barbie doll I’d like to stick my Green Arrow into! Man, I’d make her quiver!

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:50:45 +0000

Wait wait wait.

The blonde hair isn’t a wig over short black hair?

Man.

DC totally lost a sale there.

By: ejulp

ejulp — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:48:10 +0000

I guess it really matters what kind of distribution this would have…if its for a collector’s market thats fine, but as part of a normal toyline, it is kinda strange, when we view it outside of our little bubble.

By: ejulp

ejulp — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:46:28 +0000

yes…i could kind of see this…not really s & m, but does it matter given its a barbie?

By: Jason M. Bryant

Jason M. Bryant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:40:10 +0000

I think labeling it “S&M” is going pretty far off the deep end. The Fonz wore a dark leather jacket, too.