#and instead focus on hillary or smth or his friends from the school he briefly went to

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any opinions/thoughts on tana and kon’s relationship?

i think ive said my thoughts on it a while ago so i'll just try to be brief here, but dc, especially older dc comics, just has a weird problem with underage romances

i think it was generally seen as "cool" to date older women back then, and its still a mindset present today with some people, but it does make it hard to read some of these old comics because of how uncomfortable it feels. i just think it's unfortunate because tana could have been a cool Polynesian character who teaches kon about humanity, but the writers had to be weird about it and make her an older woman rather than idk the same age which just sours the whole thing. i especially get uncomfy when other characters in the comic point out the age gap, only for the comic to immediately brush over it. the constant naming of "kid" and pointing out of kon's immaturity as if he wasn't literally 16 then was also :T

i also think that tana is a result of fetishization by the writers part, and there's just a pattern in older comics of women being hyper sexualized and used to act out writers' weird ass sexual fantasies (see the several instances just involving the batfam alone) which just makes me more frustrated with writers and editorial than anything else really. of course, it is interesting to take the story and add depth that the writers clearly didn't originally plan for but yeahhh that stuff is mostly left for fans to deal with. incomic that relationship definitely would leave kon with complex trauma and then for meta analysis i just really hate dc writers for pulling this shit in this first place and doing it more than once without ever addressing the problem--it leaves a sour taste in my mouth