DC, DC, DC... what to do with you.
How many time must you blow up your universe before you get things right? Looks like its going to take at least one more.
Behold the stupidity:
"They put on a cape and cowl for a reason. They're committed to defending others — at the sacrifice of all their own personal instincts. That's something we reinforce. If you look at every one of the characters in the Batman family, their personal lives kind of suck…
Tim Drake, Barbara Gordon, and Kathy Kane — it’s wonderful that they try to establish personal lives, but it’s also just as important that they put it aside as they know what they are accomplishing as the hero takes precedence over everything else. That is our mandate, that is our edict, that is our stand with our characters."
So, with literally hundreds of characters active and many, many more sitting on the sidelines, the best you can do is - "They are have the same life - empty and void of purpose outside of their heroism." They want their heroes to be anguished, what they don't know is that its making their readers just as miserable.
That's their edict, that's their mandate, and screw you for thinking you deserve better. If they get close to someone, we will fridge 'em - if they are gay we will do it right before they propose.
If someone was married, well screw that - how are 12 year-olds going to relate to a married superhero?!?
New 52 broke up more marriages than the 80s. Everyone went back to being single, young, and dating their hot coworker they've had their eyes on for years. It's like they should of had a "CRISIS IN MID-LIFE" event to explain this idiocy.
What is particularly unnerving about the Batwoman situation is the fact they had an opportunity to really explore a gay marriage, to show the difficulties in maintaining a relationship with someone when you dress up every night and go on patrol, even if your spouse is a cop who basically does the same thing. There is so much rich thematic territory to cover in this relationship - even beyond the obvious lesbian marriage angle.
After the debacle with Alan Scott's dead almost fiancee, you think that DC would learn from their mistakes.
You would think.