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laufire · 10 months ago

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you could be generous and think that both barbara in batgirl (2000) admitting to dick that she finds it difficult to connect with and care about a non-verbal cass, and stephanie on batman & robin eternal upon meeting cass saying she's "barely a person" because she speaks one word, are meant to be the writers' showing you a reflection of the characters' ableist prejudices. except one of these actually explored that and what it meant for the characters and the other seems determined to do jack shit about it and instead commits to "everyone acts like an asshole for no discernible reason and (worse) with no discernible narrative goal" as a vehicle for storytelling.

#honestly cass seems to be one of the characters that got the shitiest deal in prime earth #i despair over the shit i read following jason's appearances for blorbo-related reason #but you couldn't pay me to put up with cass's if this is what i'll be getting #it's either plain bad. or bones thrown that are better and often a callback to new earth...#but because they're completely separated from the context and not grounded in it they turn meaningless #like that last bop issue just. reboot cass and barbara simply don't have the same dynamic so... yeah.#talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc thoughts #dc comics #batgirl vol. 1 #cassandra cain #barbara gordon #stephanie brown #bitter lau tag

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