I never thought the Bruce/Barbara relationship was "creepy". They're both consenting adults, and Barbara is in her early twenties, and Bruce is in his early thirties, nothing really wrong age-wise here. Not to mention that Barbara was the one who initiated the act, and Batman clearly regretted the encounter. Personally, I NEVER liked the relationship mind you, as I thought it's unnecessary in the Batman TAS.
However, I also think that the Dick/Barbara relationship wasn't appropriate, it's cheap and so....formulaic. You're Batgirl and I'm Batboy, let's shag. I think it makes as much sense as Bruce/Barbara to me. Neither should've ever happened. If Batman was arbitrarily seen as the "Father" of this made-up family, then Dick and Barbra are closer to being siblings. I think it's kind of hypocritical to condemn one relationship, while liking the other.
Also, Barbara came into Bruce's life after she was already a young adult. People make it sound like Bruce changed her diapers when she was a child or something. Not to mention that the whole "how he could do that to Gordon" is also BS, as Gordon is at least in his fifties, while Bruce is much younger. Comparing Bruce dating Barbra, to a girl dating a friend of her father (who's presumably the same age as the father) doesn't make sense. The two scenarios are not similar.
It seems it was purely done to give Batman a stronger motivation to hunt the Joker down, which I'm not sure was something the movie needed, but the fact remains that it's a pretty small detail all things considered. People swearing off watching the movie over this are way beyond overreacting.
This is of course disregarding the cries of misogyny of course, because let's face, the lives of all women in the world suddenly became horrible after this one scene >_>
People love to overreact and get offended over everything, and DC just handed them the perfect excuse. DC should've known better.
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