Yeah basically it's all a hark back to 1954 when Batwoman (Kathrine Kane) was introduced to counter the thought that Batman was Gay and give him a love interest. All due to a book in 1954 called Seduction of the Innocent by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.
That book lead to a Congressional inquiry about comics and it was why they went from pretty much straight-up Detective type Stories to more toned down children's fare, have to remember how fundamental Christian things were back, you know like how they could only film Elvis from the hips up.
It was around the same time that Joker went from a murderous fiend to practical Joker until later on, they also introduced Betty Kane in 1961 as BatGirl to give Robin a love interest, she was the niece of Kathrine Kane. Same thing happened in 1964, was the reason that Aunt Harriet was introduced first in the comics then the 1966 TV Series to reduce the potential for homosexual interpretations of the Wayne/Grayson relationship.
All this stuff now is basically a counterpoint to what was all anti all that up until about 2006, seems in each decade or so there is some type of backlash about something. We are now in an era where all this is now what the people who want to tell everyone else they should be doing/reading/watching are up to, we've gone from white wash the gay and premarital stuff or be damned to embrace it or be damned. Elvis corrupted the youth then The Beatles and so on and so-forth from generation to generation.
In all the instances since at least the 50's there never seems to be a middle ground it has to be one way or the other.
This is a good read about that book mentioned above if you have time: https://comicsalliance.com/history-fredric-wertham-seduction-of-the-innocent
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