LogFAQs > #910711458

To enjoy this comic, you have to be okay with the notion that this Gotham City Bruce Wayne and Jim Gordon are entering is a Gotham City that is entirely corrupt and morally dead. It's why, when you see Ra's al Ghul say, "I'm wiping this city off of the map, it's completely bereft of any value," you take pause. Gotham is both Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into one, at least for the template of early in Batman's career. Slowly, if we read other Batman titles in the future, you'll see that as time passes, Gotham begins to clean up, but the institutional criminal organizations are supplanted by the mass murdering super-villains.

The point is, Selina is a product of her upbringing. When she sees opportunity for things to change, she tries to make that change happen. But she has spent years in the hopeless assumption that this is how Gotham is, and this is the only way for her to get by. She legitimately believes that it's better to ward away a crazy outsider than to immediately protect Holly because, if you follow her line of logic, the pimps have Gotham bought and paid for. Institutionally, Holly and Selina and the entire cottage industry of this neighborhood might fare worse if a john becomes disgruntled. I mean, just look at how completely immoral the Commissioner is in that issue.

Oh, and that underage prostitute actually is still a fixture in the Catwoman world. She even becomes Catwoman temporarily in 2006ish.
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