The answer is going to depend on your personal opinion, sure. But it certainly seems like the questions of perceived sexism in super hero comics and their related products aren’t going away any time soon.
As CBR’s Robot 6 correctly points out, it’s quite possible no one at DC directly approved these particular t-shirts, which were produced by licensees. Yet it’s also hard to believe that someone in the company or parent Warner Bros. didn’t see the designs at some point in the process.
Since comic book publishers are in business to make money, I never expect that they are okay with sexism, if for no other reason than potentially offending an entire gender of potential customers is bad for business. That means that like the Milo Manara variant cover flap, we’re left to assume that whoever gave these shirts the green light just didn’t think they would send the wrong message to anyone.
For the majority of comics fans, maybe the decision-makers are right. But even the fact that we have to consider the answer to the question posed in the title above means the discussion will be — and should be — an ongoing one.
(via DC Women Kicking Ass by way of Robot 6)