I’ve attended a lot of Comic-Cons in my life as a professional journalist, and one thing that gets missed a lot in mainstream coverage of these events is not the adults in the impressive costumes, but instead, the children who are there with their parents. And while we could debate about the merits of Harley Quinn as role-model, I can personally tell you kids do love her. She typifies the 21st-century cosplay generation of comic book fans, and her brand of anti-heroism is certainly connected with female empowerment. Harley Quinn is a wise-cracking, punk-rockish anti-hero mostly for girls. Writing for Deadline, Anthony D’Alessandro pointed out: “By making this movie R, the studio has potentially sidelined the younger female-skewing Harley Quinn fanbase…” Other outlets, including CinemaBlend, supported this premise, and it’s not hard to see why. ![]()
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