I remember how Jaydick used to be the go to vanilla, childhood-crush-to-lovers soft ship for young, first time shippers that wanted something simple and completely unproblematic.
Now going by the general consensus if you ship Jaydick you’re a fucking freak of nature and you should repent or burn in hell.
Brudick is a historical ship and it’s not exclusive to fandom spaces. It’s a staple of queer culture and it meant so much for queer folks all over the world for such a long time, especially during a time where representation in media didn’t exist because it couldn’t exist. To name one, to this day there’s Brudick graffiti on the wall near a famous gay club in Dublin, on the street where the Pride Parade marches every year.
A lot of folks that hate on Brudick leave me with the same bitter aftertaste of those straight folks or the young lgbt+ which do not understand how different the world was for queer people even just 15 years ago. And that among other things, do not understand those elder queers who define themselves as trannies or fags or dykes or whatever non-sanitized word they perceive as not morally impeccable.
It might sound like a stretch but at the end of the day fandom history is history, and Brudick (or Batman/Robin) is part of the history of a lot of queer people, and the fact that it’s being taken away from safe spaces in the name of a vague, virtue-signaled and vacuous sense of morality really feels symbolic of the sanitized, devoid of soul modern times in a lot of ways.
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