#vintagerobin.txt

[vintagerobin]

I'm going to be honest I think the notion that there is a clear-cut list delineating what is and isn't a romantic or platonic behavior that is universal to every culture, time and unique life experience is a complete load of shit.

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I do wish people in this fandom particularly on the Leftist Website TM really understood how deeply homophobia has shaped public perception of Batman and how the comics themselves have been shaped by that in turn. I grew up being teased on the playground for liking Batman because that's gay. The Christmas before this one I sat down to eat with a friend's family and in a conversation where we were jokingly saying "oh yeah he's a freak (positive)" about Batman this friend's dad (a man in his fifties who ostensibly likes Batman) responded very earnestly "well of course he's a freak, he's in that big house alone with those little boys". Batman comics tried to minimize Robin and make Batman a harsher character in direct response to the theory of acquired homosexuality spread during the Lavender Scare which posits that all gay men are child predators which means that any man who presents as not stereotypically masculine and isn't married to a woman is inherently a danger to male children (who will then become gay men/child predators themselves) which is a concept that persists TO THIS DAY. Can anyone hear me!!

[vintagerobin]

Something you must remember about Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne is that they spent more than a decade getting locked in Saw traps together and that both of them are intensely and painfully fond and nostalgic about that period of their lives.

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Always so interesting when people get shocked and appalled by a common genre convention of the genre they've actively chosen to engage with. Like I'm sorry there's wheat in your bread.

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Wild to me that some people take Bruce's general lack of expressiveness as indicative of him genuinely being less emotional and not invested in people, as if half his problems aren't caused by having an extremely overactive sense of empathy and feeling things way too deeply

[vintagerobin]

Is anyone else really tired of the child soldiers reading of child heroes. Especially in superhero comics as a genre like, we have deconstructed the idea of sidekicks literally to death, the last major holdout of the sidekick trope is Robin at this point and that one's just barely hanging on. Is it really necessary to take a genre convention that was originally about children's power and escape fantasies from a media that was originally aimed at children? Is it really better to be so completely pessimistic about children to the point that a child being at all competent and able to hold their own amongst adults is more unbelievable than a friendly spaceman who flies and shoots lasers from his eyes?

[vintagerobin]

One of the worst things about reading a lot of Batman comics is that you get to a point where you realize that a lot of people who have a lot of very strong opinions on Batman do not in fact read many comics that are about Batman. And then you have to restrain the urge to be very very annoying.

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Omg I love this character he's such an eldest daughter malewife birthing hips mother hen submissive and breedable slut waist pathetic baby. I headcanon him as a trans man btw.