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This is a collage tribute to Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder #3 (2005) (illustrated by Jim Lee) and Robert Kanigher's "The Black Canary" from Flash Comics #86 (1947) (illustrated by Carmine Infantino) featuring Black Canary, and a rebuttal to ignorant accusations that Frank Miller is sexist. Black Canary was portrayed by Frank Miller as a very strong character, brave, forceful, aggressive, strong. She fiercely and fearlessly stood up to the disrespectful thugs, and she is caring and compassionate to the poor and oppressed. It should be clear to anyone with an opinion mind that Frank Miller regards the Black Canary as a strong female character. She has anger at being disrespected by sexist thugs, so she kicks their asses. The original Golden Age version of the Black Canary created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino was originally a domino-mask wearing bad girl crook who robed the bad guys. Frank Miller's version returned to that concept and updated it for contemporary audiences. Black Canary creators Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino couldn't have portrayed Black Canary showing cleavage or having sex with Batman because the Editorial Advisory Board DC had in the '40s definitely wouldn't have allowed that. DC editor Whitney Ellsworth created a Editorial Advisory Board Code of Conduct in 1941 that every writer and artist had to follow which included the rule "Women and should be drawn without 'exaggeration' of feminine physical qualities," and "must never have any sexual implication," and "Heroes should act within the law, and for the law."
This is from the transcript of the 1954 Senate hearings showing the editorial policy restrictions that every DC comic book writer and artist were suppose to follow from 1941 to 1954:
EDITORIAL POLICY FOR SUPERMAN DC PUBLICATIONS
1. Sex. ─ The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance, and should be drawn realistically, without exaggeration of feminine physical qualities.
2. Language. ─ Expressions having reference to the Deity are forbidden. Heroes and other "good” persons must use basically good English, through some slang and other colloquialism may be judiciously employed. Poor grammar is used only by crooks and villains ─ and not always by them.
3. Bloodshed. ─ Characters ─ even villains ─ should never be shown bleeding. No character should be shown being stabbed or shot or otherwise assaulted so that the sanguinary result is visible. Acts of mayhem are specifically forbidden. The picturization of dead bodies is forbidden.
4. Torture. ─ The use of chains, whips, or other such devices is forbidden. Anything having a sexual or sadistic implication is forbidden.
5. Kidnapping. ─ The kidnapping of children is specifically forbidden. The kidnapping of women is discouraged, and must never have any sexual implication.
6. Killing. ─ Heroes should never kill a villain, regardless of the depth of the villainy. The villain, If he is to die, should do so as the result of his own evil machinations. A specific exception may be made in the case of duly constituted officers of the law. The use of lethal weapons by women ─ even villainous women ─ is discouraged.
7. Crime. ─ Crime should be depicted in all cases as sordid and unpleasant. Crime and criminals must never be glamorized. All stories must be written and depicted from the angle of the law ─ never the reverse. Justice must triumph in every case.
In general, the policy of Superman DC Publications is to provide interesting, dramatic, and reasonably exciting entertainment without having recourse to such artificial devices as the use of exaggerated physical manifestations of sex, sexual situations, or situations in which violence is emphasized sadistically. Good people should be good, and bad people bad, without middle ground shading. Good people need not be "stuffy" to be good, but bad people should not be excused. Heroes should act within the law, and for the law.
www.thecomicbooks.com/dybwad.h…
DC's Editorial Board was replaced with the creation of the pretty much equally strict Comics Code Authority in 1954.
But Black Canary was created by Robert Kanigher as a crook. She's not a squeaky clean immaculate do-gooder Black Canary, and neither was Robert Kanigher's original version with Black Canary as a crook ignoring the law.
Frank Miller had Black Canary having an attraction with Batman and kissing Batman, etc., which is not out of character. Black Canary has had an attraction to Batman in the comics for decades (Black Canary kissed Batman in Justice League of America #84 (1970) written by Robert Kanigher (Black Canary's creator) and illustrated by Dick Dillin, and Black Canary kissed Batman in Brave and the Bold #166 (1980) written by Michael Fleisher (Batman historian) and illustrated by Jim Aparo).
Frank Miller writes Black Canary endowed with strength, independence and sexual freedom. Black Canary has sex with Batman outside in the rain. Black Canary is the aggressor, which doesn't make Black Canary a "whore". Black Canary is not paid for sex by Batman. The definition of a whore is a woman who obtains payment in exchange for sex. To be sexually active does not mean that the woman is being paid. The "every woman is a whore" snarky remarks are a bad joke and others projecting their sexist views into Frank Miller's work. They try to take women down by automatically throwing out names like "whore" and "slut." There are sexist thugs in Frank Miller's work, as there are in real life, and they get their asses kicked in Frank Miller's work by Black Canary, and by Batman. No we can't grant that most women who do show cleavage are sluts. The sexist double standards. Is it assumed that most men who do wear a low cut t-shirt or unbutton the top of a shirt and show some of their chest are male-sluts? No, that's accepted as just a man being comfortable and dressing casual, but most women who do the same thing = slut? That's bull.
Frank Miller said he makes his material "for teenage boys and teenage girls, and older men and older women. I think that women fascinate women as much as they fascinate men. It would be a waste of material to put all of these beautiful women in black sacks! I would hope that as the dregs of the ’60s finally go down the drain, that we could enter a post-feminist era where we could realize that part of a woman’s power is her beauty and enjoy it for what it is." www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Rev…
As author Camille Paglia said, "I feel that the sexual ideology of feminism is reactionary and repressive and puritanical and phobic. Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power." twitter.com/camillepaglia/stat…
A true sexist views women as only weak and cowardly damsels in distress, stupid and submissive, and baby making machines that should stay at home in the kitchen to clean and cook and be mommies. In contrast to a sexists beliefs, most of Frank Miller's female characters are strong, intelligent, resourceful, dominate, aggressive, and some are leaders, in positions of power.
Frank Miller doesn't write women as merely sex objects, devoid of any personality and human characteristics. I'm not embarrassed, squeamish and offended by the sight of a beautiful woman's human body or a drawing of it. I took figure drawing class in collage drawing nude models. And sexual females exposing the female body doesn't automatically equate "sexist objectification". Is Katy Perry sexist objectification? Is Nicki Minaj? Is Olivia De Berardinis' art sexist? They get a free pass because they are women? They are overtly sexual and flaunt the female body as much as any of Frank Miller's female characters do. Madonna was accused of setting back the feminist movement in the '80s because Madonna wore little feminine lingerie in public and was overtly sexual and flaunted the female body. “I get so much bad press for being overtly sexual,” sighed Madonna in Newsweek magazine (1985). “When someone like Prince, Elvis or Jagger does the same thing, they are being honest, sensual human beings. But when I do it: ‘Oh, please, Madonna, you’re setting the women’s movement back a million years’,” Cyndi Lauper agreed: “How can you criticize a woman for having a sexuality when men for years and years have been singing about nothing else? She’s just doing her thing. My thing happens to be different. Women have a sexuality that shouldn’t be suppressed.” Far from suppressing it, Madonna flaunted it. As author Camille Paglia said, "Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives." quotes.dictionary.com/Madonna_…
Black Canary is showing cleavage in All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder. Females should be allowed as much freedom as males. I haven't seen complaints about Tarzan only wearing a little loincloth or Namor the Sub-Mariner only wearing briefs, or Hawkman's nipples being exposed, or Martian Manhunter's nipples being exposed, or Marv being shirtless in Sin City, or John Hartigan being nude in Sin City, etc. And that can be seen as erotic to women and gay men. Both cheesecake and beefcake should be accepted. Artists and women shouldn't conforming to double standards of what's considered proper or indecent/sinful for a woman in some minds in comparison to a man and cover females up accordingly, which runs contrary to feminists claimed mission to bring equality of the sexes. Oppression of the female figure is anti-equality. People who think, "Men who are aggressive, shirtless or nude and sexually active - that's studs, alpha males, sex gods" but "women who are aggressive, topless or nude and sexually active - that's just whores, worthless sluts" who "have no respect for themselves", reveals the sexist double standards in the minds of to many in society. Religion is a major culprit.
And censorship runs contrary to equality and was invented over the semi-hysterical sexual hang ups of oppressive religious hypocrites, using the Bible and faux morality, and claims to protect the children*, to preach pure hatred, fueled with bitter repression, sexist double standards, dysfunction, frustration and fears. *While churches have been exposed as having child molesting priests and the Boy Scouts have been exposed as having child molesting Scoutmasters.
This is from the transcript of the 1954 Senate hearings showing the editorial policy restrictions that every DC comic book writer and artist were suppose to follow from 1941 to 1954:
EDITORIAL POLICY FOR SUPERMAN DC PUBLICATIONS
1. Sex. ─ The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance, and should be drawn realistically, without exaggeration of feminine physical qualities.
2. Language. ─ Expressions having reference to the Deity are forbidden. Heroes and other "good” persons must use basically good English, through some slang and other colloquialism may be judiciously employed. Poor grammar is used only by crooks and villains ─ and not always by them.
3. Bloodshed. ─ Characters ─ even villains ─ should never be shown bleeding. No character should be shown being stabbed or shot or otherwise assaulted so that the sanguinary result is visible. Acts of mayhem are specifically forbidden. The picturization of dead bodies is forbidden.
4. Torture. ─ The use of chains, whips, or other such devices is forbidden. Anything having a sexual or sadistic implication is forbidden.
5. Kidnapping. ─ The kidnapping of children is specifically forbidden. The kidnapping of women is discouraged, and must never have any sexual implication.
6. Killing. ─ Heroes should never kill a villain, regardless of the depth of the villainy. The villain, If he is to die, should do so as the result of his own evil machinations. A specific exception may be made in the case of duly constituted officers of the law. The use of lethal weapons by women ─ even villainous women ─ is discouraged.
7. Crime. ─ Crime should be depicted in all cases as sordid and unpleasant. Crime and criminals must never be glamorized. All stories must be written and depicted from the angle of the law ─ never the reverse. Justice must triumph in every case.
In general, the policy of Superman DC Publications is to provide interesting, dramatic, and reasonably exciting entertainment without having recourse to such artificial devices as the use of exaggerated physical manifestations of sex, sexual situations, or situations in which violence is emphasized sadistically. Good people should be good, and bad people bad, without middle ground shading. Good people need not be "stuffy" to be good, but bad people should not be excused. Heroes should act within the law, and for the law.
www.thecomicbooks.com/dybwad.h…
DC's Editorial Board was replaced with the creation of the pretty much equally strict Comics Code Authority in 1954.
But Black Canary was created by Robert Kanigher as a crook. She's not a squeaky clean immaculate do-gooder Black Canary, and neither was Robert Kanigher's original version with Black Canary as a crook ignoring the law.
Frank Miller had Black Canary having an attraction with Batman and kissing Batman, etc., which is not out of character. Black Canary has had an attraction to Batman in the comics for decades (Black Canary kissed Batman in Justice League of America #84 (1970) written by Robert Kanigher (Black Canary's creator) and illustrated by Dick Dillin, and Black Canary kissed Batman in Brave and the Bold #166 (1980) written by Michael Fleisher (Batman historian) and illustrated by Jim Aparo).
Frank Miller writes Black Canary endowed with strength, independence and sexual freedom. Black Canary has sex with Batman outside in the rain. Black Canary is the aggressor, which doesn't make Black Canary a "whore". Black Canary is not paid for sex by Batman. The definition of a whore is a woman who obtains payment in exchange for sex. To be sexually active does not mean that the woman is being paid. The "every woman is a whore" snarky remarks are a bad joke and others projecting their sexist views into Frank Miller's work. They try to take women down by automatically throwing out names like "whore" and "slut." There are sexist thugs in Frank Miller's work, as there are in real life, and they get their asses kicked in Frank Miller's work by Black Canary, and by Batman. No we can't grant that most women who do show cleavage are sluts. The sexist double standards. Is it assumed that most men who do wear a low cut t-shirt or unbutton the top of a shirt and show some of their chest are male-sluts? No, that's accepted as just a man being comfortable and dressing casual, but most women who do the same thing = slut? That's bull.
Frank Miller said he makes his material "for teenage boys and teenage girls, and older men and older women. I think that women fascinate women as much as they fascinate men. It would be a waste of material to put all of these beautiful women in black sacks! I would hope that as the dregs of the ’60s finally go down the drain, that we could enter a post-feminist era where we could realize that part of a woman’s power is her beauty and enjoy it for what it is." www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Rev…
As author Camille Paglia said, "I feel that the sexual ideology of feminism is reactionary and repressive and puritanical and phobic. Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power." twitter.com/camillepaglia/stat…
A true sexist views women as only weak and cowardly damsels in distress, stupid and submissive, and baby making machines that should stay at home in the kitchen to clean and cook and be mommies. In contrast to a sexists beliefs, most of Frank Miller's female characters are strong, intelligent, resourceful, dominate, aggressive, and some are leaders, in positions of power.
Frank Miller doesn't write women as merely sex objects, devoid of any personality and human characteristics. I'm not embarrassed, squeamish and offended by the sight of a beautiful woman's human body or a drawing of it. I took figure drawing class in collage drawing nude models. And sexual females exposing the female body doesn't automatically equate "sexist objectification". Is Katy Perry sexist objectification? Is Nicki Minaj? Is Olivia De Berardinis' art sexist? They get a free pass because they are women? They are overtly sexual and flaunt the female body as much as any of Frank Miller's female characters do. Madonna was accused of setting back the feminist movement in the '80s because Madonna wore little feminine lingerie in public and was overtly sexual and flaunted the female body. “I get so much bad press for being overtly sexual,” sighed Madonna in Newsweek magazine (1985). “When someone like Prince, Elvis or Jagger does the same thing, they are being honest, sensual human beings. But when I do it: ‘Oh, please, Madonna, you’re setting the women’s movement back a million years’,” Cyndi Lauper agreed: “How can you criticize a woman for having a sexuality when men for years and years have been singing about nothing else? She’s just doing her thing. My thing happens to be different. Women have a sexuality that shouldn’t be suppressed.” Far from suppressing it, Madonna flaunted it. As author Camille Paglia said, "Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives." quotes.dictionary.com/Madonna_…
Black Canary is showing cleavage in All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder. Females should be allowed as much freedom as males. I haven't seen complaints about Tarzan only wearing a little loincloth or Namor the Sub-Mariner only wearing briefs, or Hawkman's nipples being exposed, or Martian Manhunter's nipples being exposed, or Marv being shirtless in Sin City, or John Hartigan being nude in Sin City, etc. And that can be seen as erotic to women and gay men. Both cheesecake and beefcake should be accepted. Artists and women shouldn't conforming to double standards of what's considered proper or indecent/sinful for a woman in some minds in comparison to a man and cover females up accordingly, which runs contrary to feminists claimed mission to bring equality of the sexes. Oppression of the female figure is anti-equality. People who think, "Men who are aggressive, shirtless or nude and sexually active - that's studs, alpha males, sex gods" but "women who are aggressive, topless or nude and sexually active - that's just whores, worthless sluts" who "have no respect for themselves", reveals the sexist double standards in the minds of to many in society. Religion is a major culprit.
And censorship runs contrary to equality and was invented over the semi-hysterical sexual hang ups of oppressive religious hypocrites, using the Bible and faux morality, and claims to protect the children*, to preach pure hatred, fueled with bitter repression, sexist double standards, dysfunction, frustration and fears. *While churches have been exposed as having child molesting priests and the Boy Scouts have been exposed as having child molesting Scoutmasters.
Having sexual activity with more than one person out of wedlock in life does not make anyone necessarily lacking in self-respect. I don't want our rights lost over some semi-hysterical pro-censorship persons sex hang ups, using the Bible and faux morality to preach pure hatred, fueled with bitter repression, frustration and fear. Religion is a major culprit of the herd mentality, vilifying physical arousal and pleasure as sinful and dirty. They use the fear of god to try and keep people down, obedient, feeling shameful of their arousal. Orgasms are actually healthy. There are physical and mental health benefits from orgasms. Sexual arousal and orgasm increases the number of cells called leukocytes, also endorphins and the hormone oxytocin are released from nerve cells in the hypothalamus (a region of the brain) into the bloodstream, which relieves stress, headaches, sickness, depression, pain, helping the immune system. It increased blood flow to all parts of the brain. Sexual activity has a protective effect on health which helps you live longer.
At Comic-Con with Latin actress Eva Mendes, Frank Miller defended her from harassment and said to fanboys, "And, a complaint that I have to air in defense of my femme fatale (in The Spirit (2008)), Eva Mendes: guys, I know she's almost inhumanly beautiful, but some of the 'questions' thrown at her ... they were just plain out of line. She handled them with the humor and grace I've learned to expect from Eva, but really ...asking the woman for her phone number? It wasn't funny. Eva is a woman, and an actor of much merit, not a plaything or a proper target for lewd suggestions. She deserves the respect you'd afford any talent. I've known you all for many years. You're better than that. You know you're not going to get a date with her. Don't harass her." news.moviefone.com/2008/05/15/…
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