#its the double standard about how all things Robin related (and his Discowing costume which was modeled after his dads 1st circus costume)

[bigskydreaming]

Please someone show me even just one panel of Dick dressed as a fashion disaster in his civilian persona. It doesn’t exist. He’s never ever ever been characterized that way in canon, people just make fun of his costumes in-universe, because the same characters who get defensive and territorial about their backgrounds can’t extend him the basic courtesy of recognizing that he designed them for sentimental reasons, with zero interest in adhering to the fashion standards of the very same elitist pricks he grew up with in Gotham while they all looked down on him for his circus origins.

LOL sorry to sound like a broken record but the fashion jokes are really not funny when his costumes are literally all they’re based on, and to me they’re an example of this implicit understanding in fandom and in canon where fans and writers and characters make a big deal about classism and the prejudices of the Gotham upper class with various characters - until they exempt themselves from that to giggle about the exact same things those characters mock Dick for in canon - his circus origins.

sfhafhlkfalhs I know its not that big a deal all things considered, even fandom related, but its like nails on a chalkboard to me, because it demonstrates such a basic flaw in half the meta or discussions raised in this fandom. “Its bad to be derisive or unsympathetic about the origins of this Batkid or that Batkid or that one.....except its okay when the jokes are ones I think are funny and I mean its not like people are really ever from the circus in real life, so when you think about it, Dick’s origins don’t really count as ‘real’ and there’s no reason for him to ever be sentimental about them or for other characters to give a shit when he is.”