#I may have watched one too many vids discussing diet culture whoops

[silverwolf1249]

god this is going to be a slightly unhinged take but I recently saw a vid in my recs on youtube titled "pilates princess to diet culture pipeline". Then I stumbled upon some interesting batman and batfam takes where they don't care about their physical or mental state so long as its for the mission.

Combine those two together and you get: Vigilante to diet culture pipeline. But also like, most if not all of the batkids and Bruce cannot have had healthy mindsets concerning food even before for various reasons. Like not even Dick would be fully spared despite his loving parents because I would imagine he would still have been firmly taught to eat a certain way to be in the right physique for all those acrobatics. Jason lived on the streets, enough said, and with the serious neglect Tim had I would not be surprised if he also didn't have proper access to food at times. Cass and Damian were probably punished with withholding food from them or learning that it's a privilege to be able to eat food at all. And Bruce for sure went through some disordered eating after the death of his parents, for control purposes most likely, and probably falls back on the habit under stress, which he is under constantly. I know this is probably reaching a bit but I think they're all plausible in their own way.

But then they become vigilantes, and it all becomes so much worse. I would imagine they also all unintentionally bounce off each other. Punishing themselves by not eating until they solve their case, forgetting to eat or not eating on purpose because that's what they're used to and everyone noticed but no one realizes it's an issue that should be addressed because that's just normal for them, eating highly restrictive diets to support their vigilantism, so on an so forth. And their colleagues just think they're just very health conscious because they're bats they're just like that.

I have no clue where I was going with this but I needed to get it off my brain so here we are thanks for coming to my ted talk.