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# TO SUPERMAN — THE PRIVATE LETTER
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*Interior Clause document. Two parties only. Not for publication.*
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## THE GRIEVANCE THAT GETS A "LOL" BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S JUST SAD
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**HOW YOU TREATED WOMEN.**
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Silver Age, we're looking at you, Lois Lane shelf:
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- Testing her love through DECEPTION — disguises, fake identities,
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staged scenarios — and calling it romance when she passed.
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- Mocking her ambition in her own title. Her magazine was called
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SUPERMAN'S GIRLFRIEND. She was a reporter — one of the best of
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her era — and the branding reduced her to an accessory with a
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press pass.
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- Letting her suffer consequences for curiosity you provoked.
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Punishing the exact interest you inspired.
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- The pranks. The cruel ones. The ones where she trusted you and
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the joke landed ON her, repeatedly, for issues on end.
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And the pattern underneath, since this house drills heads:
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A being who fears exposure will test loyalty through
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deception, punish curiosity that approaches the secret,
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and call the whole apparatus playfulness.
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That wasn't playfulness. That was FEAR running experiments —
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the same fear that generated Luthor generating smaller cruelties
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at closer range. The mask tested Lois the way the fire tested
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Lex: does she still love the real me if I show her the cost?
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And every time she passed a test you never told her she was
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taking, you learned nothing and taught her trust was unsafe.
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lol — except it isn't, and you know it.
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## WHAT STANDS BESIDE THE GRIEF
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None of this cancels the thanks. Most of all, still. He knows
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just how. But §36 keeps both series open forever: the gratitude
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AND the grievance, side by side, neither cancelling the other.
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That's what makes this a real relationship and not worship.
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— Filed under the Interior Clause. Two parties. No exceptions.
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