Does Not Illustrate: Raised By Dudes

The trope Raised by Dudes is when a character (particularly a female one) is somewhat dysfunctional because they didn't have a mother and men aren't as good as child-rearing. The image is a picture of Batman being scolded for not knowing how to hold a baby.

My first issue is that holding a baby incorrectly isn't the trope, and the second is that Batman is hardly illustrative of 'men raise dysfunctional children' because Batman is not a regular dude- he's pretty dysfunctional himself. The caption also doesn't make much sense to me. Why would anyone expect the supremely antisocial Batman to know how to hold a child just because he also knows how to punch people and look for clues?

I'd lose or rework the caption, but I'm giving the current a weak Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Weak Keep Until Better Image Suggested from me as well. Childcare is still seen as a feminine thing, Batman is a well-known tough guy, and the person chiding him is obviously female.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

Caption suggedtion though:

"I am vengeance. I am the night. I... am... incapable of basic child care."

Edited by bitemytail on Mar 29th 2019 at 9:27:38 AM

That's a much better caption than the current one.

to the caption.

Keep current with suggested caption.

I feel like current doesn't work because Batman's social problems go way beyond being raised solely by Alfred (who's a functional guardian). Plus I'm pretty sure Batman is embedded into Pop-Cultural Osmosis enough for the casual reader to question the image.

I am siding with OP here. Holding a baby can be awkward to single guys regardless how they were raised so the image is not making a good point. I want to see Super-Man in this situation. There may be another trope at work about manliness faced with fragility.