#super heroes and by creating more overlap with her legacy batgirls) + it made her more vulnerable to being reduced to a male fantasy the
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#Babs#barbara gordon#will booker#he goes on to argue in favor of her new 52 reemergence as batgirl (which had just happened at the time of publication) as an empowering#return to pre-crisis 2nd wave form#which I disagree with pretty strongly because it made her even younger than post crisis + less unique (in general as one of few disabled#super heroes and by creating more overlap with her legacy batgirls) + it made her more vulnerable to being reduced to a male fantasy the#when written by men (not an immediate problem for her initial solo written by Gail Simone but something that’s become a very prominent issue#since and was already apparent in the animated series from the 90s)#the n52 reboot (much like COIE relative to Reagan-era* backlash against 2nd wave feminism!!!) also coincided pretty closely with gamer gate#—a nerd specific anti-feminist movement#AND ALSO n52 repeated the decision to cut her relationships with other women#*one of the things that contributed to Reagan’s overwhelming popularity as a president is the fact that many people who took issue with his#policies would attribute the policies they took issue with to Nancy while continuing to support the man himself#batgirl
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