scans_daily: USA Today Leaks How Barbara Gordon got her Spine Back

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@ 2011-12-12 10:40 pm UTC

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char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: harley quinn/harleen quinzel, creator: gail simone, title: batgirl

USA Today Leaks How Barbara Gordon got her Spine Back

Massive Spoilers
Apparently she went to a clinic in South Africa that specialised in spinal injuries, and that's how her paralysis was cured after three years as Oracle.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2011-12-12/Batgirl-comics-story/51830078/1?AID=4992781&PID=4003003&SID=1w5y8vwb3c6rd

IF that is the case and not just some misinformation on the part of Gail, that explanation...

Kind of leaves me underwhelmed. On the one hand, it's definately not the cop-out, cheap explanation of "her injuries weren't as bad as she thought" or "Zatanna cured you with a potion made from ground up pixies and the dreams of orphaned stampcollectors!", and is actually something of a credible explanation in reality as well...

But I don't know, something about it just doesn't seem to gel. Doesn't really have an umph impact or something.

Also, heh, so both Steph and Barbara spent some time in Africa to recover from plots involving their injuries/deaths? Okay then.

For legality, a Christmasy moment with Harley and Babs,

Ah, Kara/Babs one of the less pronounced friendships in the DCAU. Apparently they're close enough to spend Christmas together (as opposed to Kara spending it with Clark and the Kents) as stated in the Justice League Christmas episode.

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kenn_el
2011-12-13 03:47 am UTC (link)

You're actually perpetuating the stereotype by assuming that 'feminist' will somehow be linked with 'man-hating' though, aren't you, as I see don't see the evidence for the conclusion in the interview. One can be 'man-hating' without having any feminist notions whatsoever.
I'll make a similar leap, though, and assume that there was once a 'Hansel', and perhaps he's the root of the man-hate.

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technoknob
2011-12-13 04:09 am UTC (link)

"Man-hater" is going to be linked with "feminist" whether Simone or DC want it to or not. In this society and in this particular medium, there is absolutely no way in hell that a female "man-hating assassin" is not going to invoke feminism. I'd wager a large pile of delicious doughnuts that pseudo-feminist theories will be deliberately invoked during this character's introduction; if by some miracle that does not happen, reviews, online comments, and interviews with creators/critics will invoke it and it will eventually make its way into the books. There's no way to get around it, and trying to pretend that drexer is the problem simply because s/he brought up this fact is very, very disingenuous.

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	no subject kenn_el 2011-12-13 04:32 am UTC (link)
	My point stands. There's nothing in the interview that links the two. You're extrapolating based upon your own biases. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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