Rachel Dawes slapping Bruce Wayne (Double-Standard?)

I think specifically as a piece of drama for the film, it works pretty good. She was willing to cross that line of driving him away if it would save him from making a bad mistake in the future and we felt it b/c she is his childhood friend/love. So it's gonna sting in more ways than one.

Besides he's a guy who is going to grow up to be Batman. People grow up in neighborhoods getting beat up by gangs, what did Bruce have? Even Spider-Man got beat up by bullies in school. If he can't take a slap from a chick, what hope does Gotham have?

Face it, most women's hits you can barely feel them. Every women isn't Rhonda Rousey. I remember a girl punching me in the neck in high school and I literally didn't move or flinch. It was kind of cute b/c she was too short to get my head and kind of had to get on her tip toes. I didn't feel it at all. I could have torn her apart. I simply ignored her though. Clowned on her later. That's confidence. She had to take that.

Politically though, you're right it's BS.

We’re trying to pretend as if these comic books don’t exist. - David Goyer on the DCEU

It's a double standard, yes. And it certainly exists in reality, whether we like it or not. Refusing to show the existence of the unfair aspects of gender, cultural or racial dynamics neuters films that claim to be at least partly based in reality. That's one cultural taboo that isn't going away any time soon unless males suddenly lose their natural advantage in upper body strength overnight.

Rachel certainly could have been more gentle in her reproach, but she was quite distraught at the same time upon realizing that her best friend, whom she thought she could always believe in, was considering premeditated murder, something she had dedicated her career in legal to combating.

Besides, if she hadn't given him a good smack to make him realize that he was wrong, we might have no Batman. And that would be terrible.

In the end, she was a bitch.

"Respect my authority!"-Eric Cartman

That's the only part of the movie that I don't like. In fact, it pisses me off. If "resorting to physical violence" is bad for men, then it's bad, period.

At least Bruce got his own back when he saved Harvey Dent instead of her in The Dark Knight.

Think they ruined her in people's minds, all they did was make her come off as really cold and unsympathetic.

I think you´re being too harsh...
I mean I do think sometimes it is a double standard...like in situations when some women create hell for some men and advantage of the fact that man "should not hit her"...
But in this instance...you know he is her brother/friend...She was shocked that Bruce was willing to kill someone...so she slapped him twice as a punishment(My mom would do it to) you know to snap out of it! To make him realise that what he wanted to do is WRONG!
But she must have felt for him...
I think that scene was good

She wasn't telling him to get over it. She was telling him how stupid and horrible it would have been to kill Chill. He goes to prison for the rest of his life, the Wayne family name becomes known as the last one being a murderer, and the good Thomas did gets forgotten.

It was a tough love act. People need them sometimes. Bruce was going to murder a man in cold blood. He needed one. And you can definitely argue it works because he never executes anyone else in the series. That's part of the reason he has his rule. Because if he didn't he'd be just like the criminals hated. And before anyone says it, killing Harvey Dent was NOTHING like him about to shoot Chill. He killed Harvey to save a little boy and there was no other choice. That was self defense. Killing Chill would have been murder.