#just because they're fictional doesn't really give u the right to dumb them down to an object u derive pleasure from looking at

[glassdecanters]

this is entirely real. the sexualisation of dick grayson is a massive fucking problem and it isn't just because he's a man. it's because he's a person. his trauma doesn't even need to be taken into account, he's a person and no person deserves to be relentlessly sexualised.

The way some straight male fans talk about the sexualization of Nightwing is really weird, like I don’t know how to explain it, but it seems like they aren’t actually upset that he’s objectified per se, but they’re more upset that a female character isn’t objectified in his place?

Like you can see it in the reaction of people online to the news that Nightwing’s ass will be major plot point for the 4th season of Harley Quinn’s animated show, female fans are calling out how inappropriate it is to constantly sexualize a man who’s canonly a victim of multiple SA and has expressed discomfort in the past with being objectified by others, meanwhile male readers are yelling “OH SO THAT’S OKAY BUT IF WE TALKED ABOUT POWERGIRL’S BOOBS THAN THAT WILL BE A PROBLEM????”