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runespoor7 (runespoor7) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-07 21:34:00

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char: batgirl/cassandra cain, char: batman/bruce wayne, creator: dylan horrocks, creator: rick leonardi, series: one perfect moment week, title: batgirl

Cass Cain's one perfect moment
From Batgirl #50.

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mysteryfan
2009-06-07 10:08 pm UTC (link)

And more than that, it makes me angry. Why sexualize Bruce and Cass's relationship? It hurts Cass more than Bruce, but it hurts both characters and it's...

Good lord. I just read the text. Kill him or Kiss him? From #50 too?

(I have differences of opinion with you about Cass's character development and Bruce and batdickery, but that's not related to my issues with this particular issue.)

*looks up at pic again*

Good lord.

That demeans Cass and it demeans Bruce.

But as the twenty-year-old new girl? It demeans Cass much more than Bruce and is... wow. Sexist.

I mean, does this story even want to be about a dad/daughter relationship (he never let me touch him, etc.) or a wildly, ickily inappropriate will they or won't they (we don't know!) relationship between Batman and his now adopted daughter. Thanks, Horrocks.

Still like that she dissed him for the batsignal, though, in the last panel of this original post.

But ew. The other's sexist. Thanks, author, illustrator and DC.

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bluefall
2009-06-07 10:14 pm UTC (link)

She'd still be 18 or 19 at this point. Developmentally (both mentally and physically) she's more like 14-15, though, and of course obsessively fixated on him to a degree far beyond that of a normal child for a parent.

Babs seems to have no comment or even interest beyond that question in that one panel there, as well. I really don't even have the beginning of a clue wtf Horrocks was thinking or trying to say there.

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	mysteryfan 2009-06-07 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	We might as well be seeing Bruce and Tim about to make out in a DC comic. And Babs ignoring it. As she would be so wont to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-06-07 10:43 pm UTC (link)

Tim hitting on Bruce would be infinitely less squicky. He's got twice Cass' maturity, a dozen times her understanding of the world, and less than a thirtieth of her dependence/obsession/fixation on Bruce as the ultimate end-all and be-all of her existence.

Now, the issue starts with this, so it seems likely to me that Horrocks was trying to repeat that motif; Cain being perturbed by Cass trying to show affection, and then Cass repeating the attempt with Bruce and having that affection returned. I can't fathom, though, that he would have missed the fact that it comes across blatantly sexual, even before Leonardi drawing in the suggestive poses... between the age difference in the two scenes and the fact that the arc immediately prior to this one was the "Cass' sexual awakening" one, not to mention the simple context of the way Babs presents that insight, there's pretty much no innocent way to take this. Either Horrocks did it on purpose or he's staggeringly blind as to the connotations of his scripting.

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	mysteryfan 2009-06-09 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Hmm. I'm rereading 50 tomorrow. It definitely looks deliberate to me right now, though. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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