Comics fans have a tendency to insist on holding characters accountable for specific traits they have under one writer (who's not even their original creator) and never show under any writer ever again and it baffles me.
Talking about stuff reminded me I've seen some Babs "sexualizes Cass" discourse and it's like, lets be clear, she does that under Dylan Horrocks and Dylan Horrocks only, which makes is more of a Horrocks issue rather than anything that says anything about Babs. If she never shows these characteristics under any other writer, it should not be seriously considered when talking about her character. I think blaming the character and failing to hold the writer accountable, especially when it comes to stuff with a misogynistic slant, is part of the problem. Horrocks sexualizes Cass a weird amount once he comes on, and it warps everyone around her in the process.
For example suddenly Babs Batgirl costume is extremely especially sexy or something (despite being a standard superhero costume no more skintight than the one Cass wears) and emphasizing how hot Cass is in it leads to a super OOC moment from Tim (who, under Dixon and Lewis as the main people who wrote him at the time, is not the type of person to tell a girl she's hot or openly drool or whatever. He doesn't even do that to his actual girlfriends. And I think he's smart enough to realize saying this to his girlfriend's bff 1. will probably not impress her and 2. is tempting Steph's wrath if it gets back to her, I cannot imagine being that stupid).
But I see no one deciding to bring that up over and over when discoursing about Tim and Cass's relationship, for some mysterious reason.
(To be clear, I do think this stuff is subconcious for Horrocks, he was disgusted by Steph's death and it was part of why he quit DC irl, he clearly did care about Cass as a character, he highlighted that Devin Grayson fought back against it too, so on. But this stuff can be so ingrained you don't notice it)
But yeah, like, if a character acts weird under one writer, that's just what happens in comics sometimes and you have to ignore that, I think it's not relevant to how the character or relationship is written over all if it's an outlier.
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