Lady Geek Girl and Friends

Okay, first I want to explain a few things about Poison Ivy so that we can better understand her sexuality within the context of her character development.

Poison Ivy is an ecoterrorist and a straw feminist. A straw feminist is a character who is labelled as a feminist only in a effort to ridicule or prove feminism wrong.

I should also mention that there is such a thing as an ecofeminist, who believes that the oppression women have suffered is similar to the suffering and oppression inflicted on the environment. This form of feminism, like most other forms, dislikes a hierarchy that puts one group above another, whether it’s men over women or humans over the environment, and recognizes more of a symbiotic relationship of all things.

So, Poison Ivy, at her worst, is probably a straw ecofeminist. She hates all men and cares only for plants, but in later…

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