![]() The real story, if it was honest, would be about how Raven was neglected by an absentee mother who couldn’t keep a romantic relationship due to her own problems and the belief that she needed to save the world, and so relied on public school and a series of semi-serious partners to raise her daughter for her, some of which abused her. Female sexuality is also different than male sexuality, less fixed, which is why lots of women who have a same-sex relationship abandon the practice later. ![]() So that means there is a good chance Starfire allowed her daughter to be significantly harmed. I don’t have time to dive deep into this one in this post, but lesbians are victims of sexual violence at much higher rates than the population at large. This looks like a parody of Shoujo mangaĪnd of course, she is a lesbian. Again, the school food might be part of it, but that’s still within the parent’s domain of control. Your child eats what you give them to eat, and even if you turn them loose as a teenager, they will eat according to the habits you have established earlier. The obesity is also a sign of bad parenting. She’s begging for her mother to give her limits and to actually put an effort into getting to know her. Starfire allowed her daughter to dye her hair, purchased for her or otherwise gave her money to purchase the black uniform, allowed her (or more likely took her) to get her nose pierced, bought her makeup, allowed her to decorate her room with cringy occult symbols, etc. and it’s easy to see how a superhero could be a bad parent – after all, they are out saving the world, not rearing healthy children, who have to somehow stay with somebody at home and are (like most kids born after 1975) abandoned to the public school system. This can take lots of forms – absentee parenting, abuse, etc. But whose attention is she trying to get?Īt the heart of this auto-allegory is an accusation through the stand-in of Starfire: bad parenting. She wears the standard black, dyes her hair the standard black, has standard body piercings, and wears the standard boots and stockings. Starfire’s daughter represents (I believe) the author’s self-image: She’s fat, unattractive, and puts on a uniform of “noncomformanity” designed to signal how she feels to others. Auto-allegory is about much more than aesthetics, but the aesthetics do in fact have meaning, meanings which authors like this will seldom, if ever, acknowledge. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that she modeled the teenager after herself, probably in multiple ways, as we will see.
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