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Like, Dick told babs to not make him regret putting an elevator in his building, Stephanie pursued someone who told her they had a girlfriend, Damian called Stephanie fatgirl multiple times, Bruce is Bruce, babs has snapped at Cass because of Cass’ disability, Jason killed people wearing dick’s suit, and these aren’t even close to an extensive list of every time these people plus other batfam members being insensitive

Being insensitive is kinda a requirement to being a member of the family

I mean, beyond some dedicated haters that cherry pick into hypocrisy, I don't think most people are really "singling him out" on it.

I think it comes up a lot with Tim because it's something that even Tim's biggest fans will admit that he does and also because he talks a lot.

It's a fault of his, but it's also one I personally find endearing. And particularly relateable back when I was a kid with ADHD that was undiagnosed until I was 16.

The problem doesn't come from acknowledging the characters do these things, the problem comes from trying to assign moral value to it as things that make them bad characters instead of interesting.

Although I do think also sometimes people will misassign specific things as rude that aren't really. Context is so important.

Complete sidenote, "Bruce is Bruce" is great, btw

I remember someone made a chart at one point with Tim, Damian, Bruce and Dick. And it was like - on purpose / by accident and funny / unfunny (Tim was accident/funny). And Bruce was listed as accidental/unfunny and I disagree, I think Bruce can also be hilarious when he says things awkwardly in the worst way. "You have no one", thanks Bruce, that's amazing.

I love these characters sm

But like, ymmv, if people want to find it annoying, that's fine.

Another issue with Tim I think is that people perceive Tim "stans" as thinking his character is flawless, and there's a chunk of fans that will bend over backwards to try to "prove" that they aren't those people and will sometimes go too far in overexaggerating the problem in order to be perceived as someone who is "cool".