Who Fixes Up the Tables?

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

respect our men in uniform (goths in the summer)

What if I said the reason Jason "steals all of Dick's friends" is because he died before he could form his own team, and then by the time he came back DC had aged him up so aggressively that he no longer fit with the generation that actually would have matched his age? What if the problem is that Jason should be far younger, but the team ups with heroes from Dick's generation enable audiences to forget that Jason should actually be closer to Tim's age than Dick's? What then?

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.