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Black Canary Barbie Doll? What the frack…?
Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 07:00
This isn’t the kind of thing I generally notice - obviously, since it happened last year and it’s just now grabbing my attention - but the very idea of a “Black Canary Barbie Doll” made me laugh out loud. http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/07/17/black-canary-barbie-heathen-tramp/ Though I have to admit I’m a bit confused. Are there any Barbie doll collectors out there who even read DC comics? From a marketing standpoint, it’s kind of iffy. And if you’re a chick who doesn’t have a clue who Black Canary is in the first place – which I assume to be 98% of all women anyway – here’s an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canary (Though personally I liked her old costume better, back when she wore the jacket like the one here http://www.pocketpcthemes.com/preview.asp?ID=62310 and here http://michaelmay.us/07blog/images/0717_blackcanary.jpg Hubba hubba!)
“And why,” you ask, “do you sexistly assume that women don’t read comics?”
I don’t assume that. A lot of women do, but not so much in the super hero genre statistically speaking. Heck, I even know a couple women who read DC comics, but then I know a couple people who speak Esperanto: that doesn’t mean it’s popular, I just happen to know a lot of off-brand people.
“Oh yeah? Well, why couldn’t women read them if they wanted to?”
*Sigh*.
They could, obviously, but the comics aren’t aimed at ‘em, as we can see from these panels from the recent “Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding” comic book, where Vixen and Wonder Woman are shopping: http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8475/canary1xz5.jpg and here’s the next page, showing Black Canary herself http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2773/canary2wk0.jpg Again: Hubba freakin’ hubba!
Despite all the mainstream respectability comics have gotten in the past couple decades, and despite all the talk of female empowerment and whatnot, the fact remains that superheroines in mainstream comics are still basically masterbatory aides for 12-year-old-boys. The defense rests, thank you very much.
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27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
12,756 reads and going strong. That's the most freakin' bizarre thing...
23 December 2008
29 min 32 sec
Instant insight is hard work... we'd probably better get started on that.
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
Wow.
You know, we're probably gonna' do a "Top Stories of 2009" retrospective at the top of next year, and it pains me - pains me! - that this will probably be the #1.
On the other hand, I'm sure I can find some way to spin it that'll be funny and insightful...
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
It's funny checking the search terms people use at the end of the month that bring them to this site. "Masterbatory aids" (Which is what I call comics in that article) always gets a few. Curiously, though I mention "Canadian Hookers" quite a bit on the site as kind of a running gag, no one has EVER done a search on them, which is just weird. I mean, you'd think in a world where people are actively looking for Ben 10 porn, at least *someone* would be looking for Canadian Hookers, right? I mean the whole damn "DaVinci's Inquest" revolved around 'em, but no...
Tumbleweeds and crickets.
If I was a Canadian sex worker, I think I'd be offended by that.
23 October 2009
16 weeks 3 days
I clicked through because it was popular and because the title says someone made the link between super-hero-babes and Barbi, both known for large gazongas.
Any press is good press, right?
23 December 2008
29 min 32 sec
It's not a glitch... well as far as the system goes. The number is right.
It's just one of those googly internet weirdness things. People search for pics of Black Canary, and they end up here, where there are NO pics of Black Canary.
It's like the pervs who end up here when they search for "Ben 10 Porn".
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
This article is up to 3736 reads! I'm sure it's just a glitch of some sort, and I'm not about to fix it because, frankly, I like slight bump it gives to our overall daily numbers, but seriously! 3736 reads! 3736!
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
Yeah, I thought that too at one time, and it does make sense, but my daily site results never mention search combination like the phrase "masterbatory aides" or anything like that to support the idea.
Bottom line: I dunno what the hell is up with it, but, hey, popular content is popular content. Leave it up.
2 January 2009
23 min 46 sec
I doubt it is a glitch in the sytstem, it is most likely a combination of provocative content and provident search engine rankings based on the title and several heavily searched keywords.
Basically, all the visits are just from web vagabonds looking for pornish stuff involving barbie dolls and superheroines.
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
since it's likely a glitch, the specifics of the article probably don't matter. There's probably nobody actually looking at it. but if you wanna' grab the pictures from the links and embed them in the story, go ahead and give it a shot. Test out the theory.
23 December 2008
29 min 32 sec
I wonder what would happen if we actually added pictures?
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
must be a glitch of some sort. I'm tempted to just remove it and have done iwth it, but OTOH it's kinda' pushing our stats up....
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
I dunno. It just keeps going. I was suspecting it might be a glitch, but maybe people are looking for it because of the link to the Superheroines in their skivies? I dunno.
1 June 2009
20 hours 47 min
I just happen to read it because it was on the Most Popular list over on the right, there. No real interest in Barbie or Black Canary, or even comics that much. Might just be a weird glitch, or be popular just because it's listed as popular.
27 December 2008
1 hour 24 min
For some reason this page pops up in our top-ten most viewed pages almost every day, and since it first went up 29 days ago it's managed to logg 622 reads. Out of the millions of words of content on this site (We're verbose!), this one of our most popular entries, and yet it's an entirely trivial dawdle.
I gotta' know why! I gotta!
Who are you people, and what's the attraction here? I'm certainly not complaining, but I really want to know if it's 622 *Different* people visiting here, or one guy coming back here 622 times, or if it's like a secret club dedicated to Black Canary that's plugging this site to their members (And if it *IS* a secret Black Canary organization, can I join?) or what?
Please post and tell us how you found this page and what you're getting out of this page, and, you know, a little bit about yourself.
Thanks!