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samhain's review
1.0
Wtaf Batgirl? Literally nothing Patient Zero said justifies the "knowing what you've been through I understand [why you hate men]" line... She only ever suffered at the hands of her own father, her entire origin story had nothing to do with dudes, it was just the era and Gotham being Gotham. Also, she has one of the female villains tied to a chair, and she still thinks only men can be violent and insane??? COME ON! Did you even try to have a coherent plot? And true facts about reproductive science, and science in general. And respect for Harley's character (she has a PhD in psychiatry, stop writing her as a utterly idiotic puppy). And logic in your story ("the vials could explode if you scream Canary, this is why we're gonna trash this entire place and hope the GLASS vials won't get crushed :D"). Not to mention the fact that Batgirl and Batwoman had apparently broken their ties really early on and were just waiting for the others to arrive (because they suddenly couldn't handle an old lady on their own, I suppose??), and just sat there while two innocents men were tortured to death right before their eyes! And people call Harley a psycho...
All in all, this entire arc was full of poorly disguised sexism, and anti-feminism discourse. Why not try to stop spreading toxic ideas about feminists hating men/women having to be the protective ones/men being violent by default (and of course she included the "not all men" idea, of.fucking.course), instead?! Like, it's 2018, and we're still getting a moral lesson about how "men are half the world", "men and women need one another", "women should be the protectors not the destroyers", and so on... Besides, the fact that Benson tried to save her own ass by using the Daughters' transphobia against them is just lame. She's the one who wrote that story, who had her villains be men-haters to the point that they would even sacrifice males who didn't identify as men, and who decided to have its resolution talking about how women should just appreciate men. The Daughters aren't the only ones with a binary and dangerous view of the world, just saying...
All in all, this entire arc was full of poorly disguised sexism, and anti-feminism discourse. Why not try to stop spreading toxic ideas about feminists hating men/women having to be the protective ones/men being violent by default (and of course she included the "not all men" idea, of.fucking.course), instead?! Like, it's 2018, and we're still getting a moral lesson about how "men are half the world", "men and women need one another", "women should be the protectors not the destroyers", and so on... Besides, the fact that Benson tried to save her own ass by using the Daughters' transphobia against them is just lame. She's the one who wrote that story, who had her villains be men-haters to the point that they would even sacrifice males who didn't identify as men, and who decided to have its resolution talking about how women should just appreciate men. The Daughters aren't the only ones with a binary and dangerous view of the world, just saying...
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