Q: Rammifications of
having two strong women leads
Originally
a question asked by Emily on February 1, 1999 at the Unofficial
Birds of Prey Message Board
Okay, this has been
bothering me for a while. Why can't two strong, intelligent,
independent women be presented in a comic book, television show,
movie, etc. without rumors of their being intimate with one another?
I've heard people online tell me that it is "obvious"
that Oracle and Canary flirt with each other. Upon re-reading
the BOP stories, looking for this flirting, I found no such evidence
supporting this claim.
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I don't have anything
wrong with homosexuality, but it always seems to me that two
powerful women linked in friendship are targets for rumors of
something more "going on" (Dinah and Barbara, Xena
and Gabrielle, etc). You don't hear rumors about say, Batman
and Commissioner Gordon (both strong, intelligent, powerful men,
linked by frienship), or Barry and Hal, etc. etc. Is it because
the strong women together are intimidating? Some weird fantasy?
Or am I missing something?
Emily
Chuck: This subject REALLY frosts me. We've
had letters to BOP openly thanking me for writing a "mature
lesbian relationship" between Babs and Dinah. Where does
this stuff come from? It is almost exclusive to comics that two
women who become close must be getting it on. The two have never
actually MET in person face to face!
Dinah, in her Black Canary persona,
had briefly crossed paths with Batgirl in the past. I've been
asked to do a LEGENDS OF THE DCU arc about just this subject.
(Maybe I should gety off my duff and do it.)
But as far as I see it, Dinah
has no reason to suspect Batgirl and Oracle are one in the same.
It's like saying to yourself, "I wonder if my eighth grade
science teacher is the voice on the Moviefone line?" There's
just no connection between the two except that Oracle often co-operates
with the Batguys. But she also does spade work for the JLA as
well. And I always assumed she used a device to disguise her
voice when she speaks to Dinah.
Even if they did swing that way,
when would they have acted on it? When I first started in the
business I worked with a pro who was going to take two of his
strongest female lead characters and have explore "alternate
lifestyles". I urged him not to do this as it was simply
immature and dishonest for the two characters involved. He ignored
me.
I have no objection to an honest
portrayal of gay characters in comics but I hate it when people
read things that are simply not there. If I have one more letter
talking about Connor Hawke being a homosexual, I'm going to have
an aneurism.
Glad you feel the same way.