When you see what you know to be a very old brand, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that “doctor”, to the brand-makers, certainly meant “male doctor”.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

I have to admit the Ferguson Unrest of 2014 and the rhetoric about Michael Brown being a thug really changed my mind about Batman, for whom even his games highlight mobs ( mobiles or game artifacts that move) as thugs. And this led to Garth Ennis' observation that Batman is a billionaire aristocrat who beats up poor people

Then again Supergenius Reed Richards could never cure HIV and T'Challa / Black Panther, King of Wakanda and captain of the vibranium industry can't ever do enough to elevate non-whites in the US and in industrialized nations. I digress.

Getting back to Batman, I wonder if the white thugs Batman usually preyed on were Italians and Irish, who had to spend a century in the barrel before they were given white privilege.