oh! dear Bruce

don’t get me wrong, “batfamily” is great and all but when it’s too nuclear, it is annoying. I get why people call Dick Bruce’s “son”, obviously that’s the way it’s been leaning for a long time, even within canon comics and media. I just wish people would remember and appreciate that it was established to be less familial and more mentor/mentee, that they were demonstrably not portrayed as father and son for a long time since their inception, that they were two guys hanging out, and it only started relying heavily on father-son roles when it was too scary for pearl-clutchers to fathom them having any relationship that isn’t within the sphere of nuclear christian family values simply because the idea of homosexuality is repulsive and frightening for them. honestly we should push back on that. level the playing field as it were. let them kiss with tongue. etc.

don’t get me wrong, “batfamily” is great and all but when it’s too nuclear, it is annoying. I get why people call Dick Bruce’s “son”, obviously that’s the way it’s been leaning for a long time, even within canon comics and media. I just wish people would remember and appreciate that it was established to be less familial and more mentor/mentee, that they were demonstrably not portrayed as father and son for a long time since their inception, that they were two guys hanging out, and it only started relying heavily on father-son roles when it was too scary for pearl-clutchers to fathom them having any relationship that isn’t within the sphere of nuclear christian family values simply because the idea of homosexuality is repulsive and frightening for them. honestly we should push back on that. level the playing field as it were. let them kiss with tongue. etc.