Chokabore

Just found this and I'm so fucking sad I missed it omg 😭 missed out on peak..

Rambling away like the yapper i was born to be but it ticks me off so much when we point out Bruce's flaws as a dad and people's immediate replies are like. "oh, but they CHOSE to be robin!" "Oh, but Damian is a brat!" "oh, but jason running away is his own fault!" Guys. Guys. Have we considered that in all instances above and others, they were CHILDREN, or teens in some, but i need you to stop and think about your own childhood/teenagehood and how many bad choices you made because you were a kid who didn't know any better. The adults are supposed to be the people who know better and keep you from doing dumb shit that'd get you killed, and yes that unfortunately doesn't always happen, but it's also never the kid's fault. It's of the adults who chose to not fulfill their goddamn responsibilities as a parent. I agree that the writers go wayy too hard with Bruce being a shit father and sometimes it feels cartoonishly out of character with how bad he gets, but let's not sit here and pretend that Bruce is a 10/10 parent who never fucked up. He willingly let these kids run around fighting criminals and then has the gall to make their injuries and pain about himself, to put Jason's uniform in a case naming him a "good soldier", when the Robins were the ones going through it. Im so tired. He may not fully intend to have child soldiers but that is still exactly what he does, and intentions don't matter much when kids end up dead because you couldn't, i dont know, be a parent and put your feet down and put them in therapy when you're a goddamn millionaire. He has plenty of good moments but that doesn't take away nor outshine the bad, and again, while i think the writers go cartoonishly bad with it, im so damn tired of trying to make excuses for a grown man who should be responsible for his own actions and choices instead of pinning it on his kids. I generally hate this "oh, this kid character is soo annoying because they're a kid and kids annoy me!" and "oh this guy who willingly let kids endanger themselves is soo misunderstood" idea i've seen people run with. Anyways, rant over. I might sound aggressive as fuck in this but it isn't that serious lol it just ticks me off

I love Bruce I really do but my God when you sit down and explore his relationships with the kids and his role in so much of their trauma but also deaths? It becomes baffling.