how Nightwing fans feel after telling you that he, a grown man who had to take up guardianship for his little brother after their father was presumed dead for a few months, has eldest daughter syndrome (he has never raised a child in his life):
Oh my god LITERALLY THANK YOU it always makes me giggle (cause otherwise I would cry) seeing dick be described with “eldest daughter syndrome” because that idea ppl have in their mind just. Doesn’t exist. Or not to the extent they think it does because hello?? Dick Grayson for literally most of his time even HAVING siblings lived in a whole entire different CITY??? People forget he was literally an only child until he was 17-19 depending on the age difference between him and Jason. HE WAS LITERALLY ALLOWED TO HAVE A FULL CHILDHOOD AND REACH ADULTHOOD AND GO OUT ON HIS OWN BEFORE HE EVEN HAD ONE SIBLING. Matter fact, Dick leaving home to build a life for himself is what incentivised Bruce to take in Jason in the first place????
He wasn’t forced to raise shit, nor was he part of a system that systematically abused and forced WOMEN (keyword WOMEN) into caretaker roles and robbed them of the childhoods they deserved and/or the futures they wanted.
And the other side of this incredibly stupid and harmful coin, is when people dare to say Nightwing has experienced sexualisation on par with ANY woman, let alone women in comics. No, a few jokes about his ass while people respect him as a person, he’s drawn with a full-body-covering suit, he is universally agreed to be one of the most complex and interesting characters, does not fucking make him objectified to the level that female characters are, and it’s not even close.
It speaks of incredible ignorance and dare I say stupidity to even make that comparison because only until a very recent period in human history were women even seen as their own autonomous people and not second class citizens, property of the men around them. You’re fucking telling me NIGHTWING experiences the same objectification as women, who only RECENTLY started to not be viewed as objects and literal property??? How misogynistic and blind do you have to be??
I can count on ONE hand the amount of female superheroes that were never portrayed in a skimpy, impractical outfit that reduced them to pieces of meat with boobs and an ass, with no real depth to them except wanting sex and men. NOT EVEN UNDERAGE FEMALE CHARACTERS ARE SAFE. Female characters are constantly and still to this day rarely given the same, frankly BARE MINIMUM, treatment of being semi well rounded characters that male characters will and have always have had the privilege to receive.
A well rounded male character is the norm, a well rounded female character is an exception that should be celebrated. A sexualised female character is the norm, a sexualised male character is an exception that causes outrage. It’s so fucking infuriating and tbh if you honest to god even attempt to compare Dick Grayson, a complex male character since his creation, to anything a female character has experienced, I’d ask you to please get your head out of your ass and be so fucking for real.
That is not to say he doesn’t experience ANY objectification or sexualisation, because obviously he fucking does and his uncomfortable reaction to it is always treated as the butt of the joke (pun really not intended). But you can call out how harmful that is without minimising the experiences of women and female characters through comparing those two INCOMPARABLE situations.
And an interesting thing you’ll find that most of the time people who spew that rhetoric do not engage with female characters either AT ALL or not nearly to the level they engage with male characters and it really shows man. It really shows. Please look into your own biases and stop subjecting me to eye watering awful rhetoric.
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