Squeak!

Dew - 13/30

Sketch and process video below

Do you feel that, the change in the air?

Yup, he was in The New Teen Titans. He worked with Dick in TNTT, but Dick was appalled by how Adrian disobeyed the law, and he didn't want to work with Adrian anymore. Dick had just left and was outside Adrian's building when it blew up, killing Adrian's wife and his two kids. Adrian became Vigilante after that.

Vigilante vol. 1 #20

Adrian eventually killed himself, but part of me wishes they'd bring him back as a recurring Nightwing antagonist. Though it may feel too derivative of Daredevil and Punisher (though that didn't stop them with Nightwing vs Blockbuster basically being Daredevil vs Kingpin).

Chase also feels a bit like the Harvey Dent to Dick's Batman, in that they're both DA's that they worked with who eventually went crazy from the mob traumatizing them.

Notably, Wolfman did bring a Vigilante back in Nightwing vol. 2, but it was Dorian Chase, Adrian's brother.

You want to be able to go outside shirtless? Let’s not think about how disturbing it is that women are denied such a basic freedom. Let’s not work to make the female torso be seen as neutral as the male torso. Let’s just say that you want this freedom because you’re not actually a woman (women who call themselves women are fine with their breasts being seen as something in need of censorship), and let’s encourage you to get “top surgery”.

You don’t identify with femininity? Let’s not consider that femininity exists as a tool to oppress women. Let’s not talk about the ways that femininity is forced onto women and girls, which will naturally lead many to despise it. Let’s not insist that femininity and masculinity aren’t innate, but rather are social constructs that need to be done away with. Let’s do the opposite and insist that you actually have a masculine soul and that you’re not actually a woman (because women who call themselves women just love femininity so much).

You feel uncomfortable with she/her pronouns? You feel more comfortable with her/him and/or they/them? Let’s not examine the way that he/him and they/them are used as default for living things, while she/her is used as default for objects. Let’s not think about what it does to a woman’s self-perception to be referred to the same way as a man’s treasured car. Let’s not try to change the way we use pronouns for living things vs objects. Let’s just say that you’re not actually a woman (because women who call themselves women never feel uncomfortable with this phenomenon), insist that everyone call you anything other than she/her.

When you insist that discomfort with misogyny and female oppression is a sign of not being a woman at all, the implication is that women who don’t want to pretend they aren’t female are comfortable with said misogynistic oppression. They identify with it. This leaves no room for actual discussion and change, because whenever a woman tries to open a discussion to promote change, she’s met with “well maybe you aren’t a woman? Cis women don’t think like that”.

There has never been a point in history where feminists engaged in actual positive change were well liked and warmly received. To be feminist is to be hated and called whatever the Worst Thing Possible currently is btw.