This brings us to the beginning of the problem. Dick and Barbara didn't have a pretty or good start to their relationship. And that's where the hate towards Barbara begins.
Dick cheats on Kory. Barbara is a mistress. It's misogynistic. It's female rivalry. And this wasn't done because the writers thought they wanted to explore Dick and Barbara's relationship. No. Dick had a whole history and development with Kory over the years. The writers wanted to marry them off. But the Batman brand didn't want the first Robin to have a love interest who was a character outside the Batman brand, so they forced the Dick-Kory breakup and forced Grayson with Barbara.
All of this reduced Barbara to the role of Dick Grayson's love interest, causing haters against Barbara to emerge. DC doesn't care how much this is out of character and damages Barbara's image. And increasingly over the years Barbara has suffered retcons to function as Dick's love interest. None of this was done for her image as a heroine, nor for her development. No, she was and still is being overshadowed by a man. And no Barbara Gordon fan would be happy about that.
Furthermore, if you ship DickBabs from the comics, you're actually shipping a copy of DickKory without the depth or elements that make the couple unique. It's the DickKory version of the Batfamily: the redhead with green eyes, sunshine, mother of the group, Dick's best friend. It's impossible to tell if I'm talking about Kory or Barbara because DC is trying to turn Barbara into the Batfamily version of Kory. Hell, they even made Barbara immediately move into Dick's apartment like Dick and Kory used to live together.
It's denial in the most innocent of hypotheses and total indifference to Barbara if, at the extreme, it's denying that Barbara has been reduced to just Dick's girlfriend.
Because taking Barbara out of Gotham is like taking Batman out of Gotham. The fundamental point of Barbara becoming Batgirl was only Gotham. She didn't do it for a boy, she didn't do it for fame or glory. Barbara without powers, without Batman's resources or Dick's natural talent. Barbara, solely through her intelligence, courage, and kindness, becomes a superhero because she wants to protect the innocent, strengthen and give hope to people who don't feel strong enough to fight, and make Gotham a better place. Barbara has no ties to Blüdhaven. Having Barbara abandon Gotham just to live somewhere else simply because her boyfriend lives there not only erases all of Barbara's altruism in giving up a normal life since her youth to help people, but also removes the key point and depth of her motivations as a heroine. This robs her of much of the richness that made the character special, besides being uninteresting and extremely misogynistic.
It's obvious that DC doesn't really care about Barbara, as they've shown since The Killing Joke. They just want to make her Dick's love interest, and not even with Barbara being Barbara.
So, no, I'm not reading this. Because when I looked up Barbara's story in the comics, it was with this horror movie that I discovered that "Dick Babs" transformed her life. You can't even blame the haters. Look how DC massacred my girl.
And the last news I had about Birds of Prey is that DC canceled the title. And in 2023 they published the run that has a comic reducing Barbara, mocking and belittling her as a superhero and saying that her only value is being in Nightwing's shadow. What empowering and favorable portrayal of the character.
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