TO THE BATPOLES #215: Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity

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TO THE BATPOLES #215: Women in Season 3, pt. 1: Villains (and heroes!) approach gender parity

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One of the most striking things — in a good way, for once! — about Batman’s third season is the number of villains who are women. Also, of course, this is the season of Batgirl, who is more aggressively “feminized” than any other woman on the show, perhaps because she’s doing “a man’s job.” This time we begin a look at how the show presents women in season three by looking at the season's first five episodes, and we’re joined again by novelist Nancy Northcott.

PLUS: What if King Crimson performed the Batman theme? A Batman writer turns out to be a war hero! And, Bat Audio from another Batman reunion in 1989.

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-- The Joker, in a line cut from "The Joker's Epitaph"
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