scans_daily: One Gotham City Citizen Opinion On The Bat-family.

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@ 2011-10-12 10:14 pm UTC

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char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, creator: ardian syaf, creator: gail simone, creator: vicente cifuentes, title: batgirl

One Gotham City Citizen Opinion On The Bat-family.

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	no subject mrstatham 2011-10-13 02:56 pm UTC (link)
	No, I don't think even Steph would be vocally snippy to this degree with a civvie. She might run it in her internal monologue - "And what about my ribs, jerk?" to herself. Heck, even to Babs as her handler, but it would be off even for her, IMO. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

	no subject runespoor 2011-10-13 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	And how should Babs have reacted, then, since you deem her replies snippy and borderline abusive? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

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mrstatham
2011-10-13 05:21 pm UTC (link)

Wow, sorry for having a differing opinion.

But I'd have the lines she uses anyway, just as part of her internal monologue. Like I said, Steph could be that snippy, but not to a civilian. To me, Babs should just make the remarks in her head, and move on, not pretty much mock someone whose property she's damaged and whose livelihood she might affect.

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	no subject runespoor 2011-10-13 08:22 pm UTC (link)
	I meant what should she have told the woman? She couldn't stay nothing; ignoring someone is much ruder than what she did. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject mrstatham 2011-10-13 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	That depends on your perspective. I think ignoring the woman would've been more polite than what Babs says, personally. In a world where DC actually knew what the status of their new universe is, she'd thrust a Batman Inc card at her, mutter "Bill me," and move on. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

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golden_orange
2011-10-14 12:07 am UTC (link)

But aside from the crack about her ribs, what she says is an apology. By implication a half-hearted and not-entirely-sincere one, perhaps, but an apology still (and considering the cabbie herself is being quite impolite and unreasonable, I can't entirely fault Babs for a lack of enthusiasm and sincerity in her apology in this case). I'm not really sure how a smug quip about billing Batman Inc. about it would really be that much of an improvement.

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	no subject mrstatham 2011-10-14 04:27 am UTC (link)
	But why even rise to it and give the rather sniping apology? There's no need to even engage the woman with that sort of response. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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golden_orange
2011-10-14 04:56 am UTC (link)

To be honest, having finally read the issue and this scene in context, I took from it more that outside from the crack about her ribs, Barbara actually isn't engaging with the cabbie, at least not outside of a distracted "oh-this-woman's-shouting-at-me-better-respond" fashion; she's more concerned with looking for the murderous supervillain that she's hunting and is only responding to the cabbie in a rather disengaged 'uh-huh' fashion rather than actually being sniping or giving her attitude. So while it might as apologies go still not be a very sincere or enthusiastic one, it's not meant with any attitude behind it.

But in any case, the cabbie's inches away from her yelling and shouting at her, and is only not literally in Barbara's face because Barbara's turned away from her; there's not engaging with someone and not rising to the bait and then there's just letting them trample all over you and treat you like dirt. Why should Barbara have to put up with the way the cabbie's acting without comment? She might be a superhero, but that doesn't mean she has the infinite patience and reserve of a saint, or should have to just let people treat her like that without any kind of comment back; she's a superhero, not a doormat. The cabbie's being the more unreasonable one here, not Barbara.

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