burt ward: my life in tights (1955)
“when i had them together onstage i asked for them names. when i got to the girl, i responded as though i had just discovered that she was a girl. then I turned to the audience and asked, “can a girl try out for the part of batman?”
all the boys in the audience screamed NO and all the girls screamed YES.
i said “i’m going to let this young lady try out, because whoever makes the best batman is the one i want to come back to gotham city.”
the girls cheered and the boys booed.
imagine being a little girl in one of these assemblies… like bro robin letting me try out to become batman would have irrevocably changed me i would have genuinely dedicated the next 16 years of my life to becoming irl batman
