Can we completely excise Arkham Asylum from the Batman mythos? It's really not a great way to treat (or present) the mentally ill.
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I mean, just to start with, the conflation of "criminal" with "mentally ill" is not great.
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And the unfortunate fact that a mentally ill Batman rogue can never be effectively treated without removing them from all future stories
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Resulting in a mental hospital which apparently never successfully treats anybody, a tragic misrepresentation of modern mental healthcare
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Arkahm Asylum makes this implicit statement on mentally ill people: "Criminals, all of them. Lock them up, they can't ever be helped"
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The easy fix is to just represent Batman villains as criminals. Flamboyant style, weird tics, but never "insanity defence" ill. Then, prison
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If you actually need a creepy insane asylum for your story, maybe set it in an era when they existed and functioned like that
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