jitterbugjive:

I saw a thing a recently about some kind of contest involving Harley Quinn committing suicide naked.

And people are saying this is terrible and “sexualizing” suicide.

So, I read the details to see what was up, and it says she’s naked in a tub with a bunch of electronic appliances hanging above her. They are also saying it’s sexist since she’s a female and they’re ‘making light’ of a serious problem.

I’m um, sorry, but where is the logic in this?

What, people get in bathtubs with clothes? Last I checked, people generally don’t wear clothes when they get in a bathtub, suicide or not. And it doesn’t matter which gender, males and females both get in tubs naked.

Ohh. What a concept.

Harley, by nature, is messed up in the head, abused, and suffering from a LOT of shit. She copes with it with a mask of humor.

It is very much in the possibility of her character to commit suicide, and try to find a ‘funny’ way to go about it, as a last effort to make a joke of her life.

Honestly, I feel people are looking way too much in to it. Isn’t it sort of wrong to automatically conclude that just because she’s naked and female means it’s sexualized?

Like women aren’t allowed to be naked at any point ever, including in a bath, because that’s just “way too sexy”?

What the fuck?

Isn’t THAT the problem, right there? LOOKING for sexualization and accusing things that aren’t really there is nearly as bad as people actually going out of their way to sexualize it.

Nowhere in the information did it say her tub suicide was supposed to look ‘sexy’. No one said her naked-ness had to be sexualized. She could be covered in bubbles, the water could be blocking any naughty bits, it’s all up to how the artist wants to portray it.

If she was shown in a bath tub with clothes on I’d honestly be confused as hell.

They aren’t trying to romanticize or sexualize suicide. They aren’t trying to laugh at it. They are trying to find something that works for HARLEY QUINN SPECIFICALLY. As a CHARACTER. As a victim of abuse, identity loss, and trauma. As someone who is insane and emotional and very very lost, constantly in conflict inside her head.

Just…

Ugh, just, people need to stop pointing fingers in the wrong direction…

So basically, they want it to be like arabia where women aren’t even allowed to show their ankles or wrists?