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scintillyyy · 3 months

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btw if you are at all wondering why i can forgive/think neutrally about the sexism present in tim's comics but i can and will get extremely disgruntled about how bg09 has sexism problems and complain about it, it's because tim's comics are in no way, shape, or form ever supposed to be seen or read as a feminist work (it's usually written by a sexist man for white teenage boys, and i can accept that) whereas it's obvious bqm is writing bg09 like he's under the impression what he's writing is somehow a great win for women characters and feminism in comics while every page and plot is dripping with sexist ideas of women & women interacting with each other, extremely sexist ideals of the good not-like-other-girls girl vs all those other brainless harpies (much like any cw show has), utter lack of respect for any woman character who is not the main character, sexist male/female dynamics, ableism, racism, and just very shallow characterization and motivation in general.

#like this is including the steph and damian interactions btw sorry. those were def probably a high point #but those are also dripping in boys will be boys mentality and the whole idea of perky blonde teenager girl #teaches recalcitrant sullen little boy how to have fun which is also still entrenched in #the sexist dynamic of girls being expected to manage and teach boys how to behave better no matter what they say or do to you #(like don't get me wrong it's a good story for damian to learn from her)#(but is it a good story for a woman character in steph to be cast in the 'girl has to teach boy to respect women #as he's throwing sexist insults as her? sorryyyy it's just. leaning into the idea that girls have to teach boys to do better.)#anyways. i can forgive a comic for being exactly what it is and having no illusions of being anything else #i have very little patience for something that's pretending to be what it's not actually #actually i could probably forgive it for being a product of it's time if it wasn't upheld as such a win for women

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