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** In "Beneath", Dick is explaining to Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Miss Martian, and Bumblebee that he put together an all-female team to investigate Queen Bee because her persuasion abilities don't work as competently on women as they do on men. Batgirl then asks Dick if he would've "felt the need to justify an all-male squad for a given mission?" At which point the rest of the squad gives Dick a dirty look and sheepishly asks "there's no right answer to that, is there?" When he logs out, Batgirl quips that Queen Bee's not the only one who can mess with men's minds, and the team laughs. Batgirl felt that Dick was being sexist when he was explaining that the team had a logical advantage against Queen Bee that a team of male members wouldn't, and was simply explaining in an intelligent manner that they had an advantage. Batgirl acted as a [[Straw Feminist]] and had no reason to jab at Dick. This was a [[Funny Aneurysm]] moment for most fans who laughed the first time, then realized what happened and felt Batgirl was being stupid.
*** It's possible that she ''thought'' he was being sexist when he wasn't. This can be justified in her case as a misunderstanding, but doesn't stop the [[Unfortunate Implications]].
*** She was winding his up.
*** She wasn't calling him out on sexism so much as male privilege. Instead of saying "Queen Bee has the ability to the control the minds of men," he said "It's weird that you're an all-girl squad, but I did it because Queen Bee can control the minds of men." He (probably unintentionally) implied that an all-girl squad was a deviation from the norm, so Batgirl teased him. The same thing happened the ''last'' time Dick discussed Queen Bee in "Image," when he said Queen Bee could control men. Batman corrected him then, too: "Most men and some women." Dick's not sexist or homophobic, he's just a straight white guy raised in a society where "straight white guy" is the assumed norm. There's a reason we have a trope for [[Girls Night Out Episode]], and that reason is because, in a society where "straight white guy" is the subconsciously assumed norm, an episode where just the girls are featured is considered unusual. Batgirl teased him instead of yelling at him probably because she knows he doesn't mean to do it: he put her in two all-female squads in "Happy New Year." Nightwing was wise enough to admit his mistake and not dig himself deeper.
* [[Ugly Cute]]:
** The little G-gnomes fall under this.
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