Preaching to the choir All in all, I actually like Ollie as a character, even if he is often an unlikable guy.
Which is why my loathing of Ollie is so...loathsome. Normally I like the unlikable characters: Gregory House, Rodney McKay, Sheldon Cooper, Tony Stark...Courtney Whitmore, back when nobody liked her because she was a b!+@#. Ollie, though, is the kind of unlikable character who not only thinks he's likable, but cons other people (namely Dinah and Roy) into believing it as well. He reminds me of an abusive person who hurts the ones he loves then apologizes without learning anything from it.
I mean, Batman shuts people out and hurts feelings, but it's usually under the misguided logic that he's protecting them. And even then he's got Alfred there to both soften the blow and smack sense into Bruce. Ollie just abandoned Roy and when he came back got upset because Roy, whilst performing with Great Frog to earn a living, fell in with the wrong crowd. Say what they will about Batman, the worst Bruce would have done if that had been Dick would be to go out and patrol until he processed the situation. (Providing he doesn't have some backup plan in place for when one of his Robins gets addicted to drugs, which he might, because he's Batman.)
*shrugs* I'm bitter, because while I know I should like Green Arrow because of the other jerky characters I like, I can't get past what I read about in Inheritance.