Re: Wherein I open my big fat mouth...
Is Dinah treated in the same way a male hero would be, though? She overcomes the trauma and is stronger for that afterwards, but the whole scene with her dangling from a pole in a heavily sexualised setting and subsequently having a male hero carry her out in his big, manly arms -- this still reads as pointless victimisation to me, especially since I can't really see any reason why Dinah ended up in the situation in the first place. Those flannel-clad, middle-aged evil wrongdoers don't look particularly threatening in the face of Dinah's fighting skills.