Batman is not a good parent.
Allowing abuse to perpetuate and continue without taking actions to protect the victims and stop the abuser is passive abuse.
All because you can’t kill a man who violated and mutilated kids and adults and animals.
That’s not strength in abstinence.
That’s weakness in a fancy costume.
It’s the stance of a billionaire, who will never have to suffer the same consequences as the average person.
It’s the stance of a weak man.
And I’m tired of people calling it bravery or morality. It’s cowardice in a bat costume.
He allows abuse to continue.
Not only on the city he swore to protect, but the children he brought into his life.
He sealed Jason Todd’s fate before that kid knew Bruce Wayne at all.
As well as Barbara and Jim Gordon, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Harleen Quinzel, Sheila Haywood, Thomas Elliot, Sarah Essen, and every single other victim of the Joker.
Because he couldn’t suck it up and decide to break his rule for a man who he knows will not stop, get help, or be contained.
Batman allowed that to happen.
He let children into the line of fire. And he still chose to sacrifice the innocent to protect the guilty.
That is not heroism, or even anti-heroism. It’s not some code, or moral backbone.
Its weakness. It’s failure to protect, and it’s irresponsible.
Fuck Bruce Wayne. Fuck Batman.
