1st rule of feminism: protect adult women from the male gaze at all costs. 2nd rule of feminism: molest children
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (22)
sorted by:
"Fun size" is a reference to candy. It's an old joke that has nothing to do with sex. Pretending to be outraged over made up issues weakens your position unless you have the establishment backing to make the bluff. Stop doing it.
Agreed, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with jokingly calling kids "fun size," and it's not sexual.
However, I was going to say I didn't know the context in this case, but then it popped into my head; I believe this is that scene with the child version of Poison Ivy...i.e. someone they love to pair with Harley. At the very least, she's calling a child version of someone with which there's presumed sexual tension "fun sized." Honestly, it would be much more excusable if it were literally almost any other pairing of two characters. As is...at the very least it's a little suspect.
Harley delightedly calling a child version of her sometimes girlfriend "fun size" is...a bit off.
Kienan is right, there is a larger context of Harley and Poison Ivy diddling each other in the Harley Quinn show and other edgy DC media. Maybe this is an innocuous line, but, as they like to say, "it's a bad look."
Later in the same scene, Harley refers to Poison Ivy as "not just any little girl, but MY little girl." See the implication?
Unfortunately that is how it started but in current day it has been MADE sexual. Daddy wasn't sexual, just what a kid, usually the daughter, called their dad but thanks to years of porn it has been MADE sexual.
You cannot ignore how these kinds of previously innocuous words have been though concerted efforts been made sexual, almost to undermine their original purpose.
It also weakens your position to completely ignore how the phrase has been used for more than a decade to refer to smaller girls.
Unless you really think all those guys on 4chan think those little girls are really cute and funny because they are just adorable and humorous. Since apparently things can only have one meaning and its always the innocent one.
To be fair, not everyone is plugged into all that weirdness. It doesn't surprise me to hear it's used in such contexts, but I don't see it used that way, and hadn't really thought of it. I was ready to give it the benefit of the doubt too, before I remembered seeing that Ivy scene posted a few weeks back.
Nigga I literally heard girls being called that in high school decades ago. No internet, no "subculture."
Literal actual normies calling other people that. Out loud. In real life. To their face. And they themselves calling themselves that as a pro to getting with them.
Just because you never heard something doesn't mean literally everyone else didn't either and its just some niche internet thing.
Having reasonable debates where you have 100% of the facts on your side also weakens your position without establishment backing, so you might as well just go full nuclear option at all times against these people.