So...I got blocked from a Facebook group called DickKory for giving my opinion.
I'm not a fan of, nor do I support, hatred towards any character, regardless of any ship, so I was surprised by a post against Barbara and the DickBabs fandom.
My comment and argument was: "They hate a character simply because it's not the ship they like, and for reasons that aren't even canon anymore.
If they don't care about canon, why don't we hate all the characters who abused Dick in some way instead of hating two really good characters?"
After a long debate, they ended up blocking me from the group, even though I didn't break any rules in any way.
I guess "supporting hate against Barbara" is an unwritten rule.
My question is...can't fandoms get along?! Neither side is more right than the other. They're cute ships, and the characters are constantly being passed around between writers. One writer can create a beautiful relationship, and in the next run, another writer can make it the most toxic thing imaginable. Read the ship you like, and if you want, ignore the others, But never generalize about a fandom or spread hate.
Honestly both sides can get bad, and the "funny" part is how identical they can be. To each other and other ships fandoms.
I once ended up caught in the Mileven vs Byler ship wars and was like "wait...this feels familiar", lol.
Back to the hitting him topic, you were actually so real.
Everyone hates DickBabs because Barbara "is abusive", hitting him a few times... (Even made a whole post about this here) But then there are two or three panels of Kory doing the same, Helena doing the same, Shawn "verbally abusing him" (something they also accuse Babs of), Bruce doing the same, DONNA doing the same, Victor doing the same, Jason doing the same and gosh so many characters.
The only one aside Babs who gets hate for this is Bruce, probably one of the few characters where you can ACTUALLY EXPLAIN why he did that in the first place a few times.
I don't know, it's just so funny how DickBabs gets hate for things that happens with other ships too. Babs hitting him when others did it too, Babs de-aged "for him" when it's not true and Zee was actually de-aged for him in YJ, Babs dating so many BatFam characters (not even in canon mind you) when it's an issue recurring many female characters in general, some are straight up lies...
DickBabs gets hate for basically nothing like many ships, so those are useless arguments and we should all get alongπββοΈπββοΈ
So many languages and you decided to speak the truth. π

















