Really, from watching TV and movies you'd think that high school caste systems are not only rigid of totally simple. It's not that it isn't based on truth, but high school classes are made up of people from central casting playing stereotypes!
Wow, I have never thought that about Dick and the feminine qualities but that really makes sense. I mean, there's already so many ways where Dick surprisingly winds up attracting a pattern of attitudes that usually get imposed on women, but you are really right there about things like emotional intelligence, cooperation etc. And Tim, while obviously not being hyper-masculine in an exaggerated way, really does probably fall into the more comfortable area of lone, obsessive hero. Which doesn't sit so well on Dick because when he's isolated you notice--it's like icon_uk always points out as being weird about Devin Grayson's run on Nightwing. He doesn't operate naturally like that, and that's often seen as a flaw instead of just being different.
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Wow, I have never thought that about Dick and the feminine qualities but that really makes sense. I mean, there's already so many ways where Dick surprisingly winds up attracting a pattern of attitudes that usually get imposed on women, but you are really right there about things like emotional intelligence, cooperation etc. And Tim, while obviously not being hyper-masculine in an exaggerated way, really does probably fall into the more comfortable area of lone, obsessive hero. Which doesn't sit so well on Dick because when he's isolated you notice--it's like icon_uk always points out as being weird about Devin Grayson's run on Nightwing. He doesn't operate naturally like that, and that's often seen as a flaw instead of just being different.