>>107998505I had a theory for a long time that Dick’s problem with women was basically a mix of ignorance and a lack of anything resembling a normal adolescence which kind of gave him a “who, me?” attitude when women found him hot.
He first got raised in a circus until he was in his early teens, at which point he was raised by an extremely intense and strict taskmaster and an old man, both of whom were not particularly equipped to help him talk about girls and so his focus remained elsewhere. Combine this with REALLY being stuck in Bruce’s shadow (especially where it comes to women) and by the time it comes to dating he’s sort of never really noticed that he’s considered extremely attractive, which sort of jives with how clueless he is for a long time about his affect on women.
That said, I did like Tom King’s portrayal of Dick during his Grayson days as being totally aware of his effect and him just being a wiseass about it and sort of using it to James Bond his way past shit.