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"[[The Daria Database]]" reveals that she uses a cell phone to "call and hang up on [her] ex-husband twenty times a day (until he gets Caller ID)"...
She hates Anthony DeMartino and he regards her with fear, to the extent he tried to prevent [[Timothy O'Neill]] from marrying her for O'Neill's own safety. She has physically assaulted DeMartino in "[[The Daria Hunter]]" (as a substitute for her ex-husband), "[[The New Kid]]" (to scare him into changing the Yearbook layout), "[[Is It College Yet?]]" (for interfering with her relationship), and "[[The Daria Database]]" (for no apparent reason), and in "[[The Lawndale File]]" lied to Immigration that DeMartino was an illegal immigrant so he'd be incarcerated. Despite that, in "[[Antisocial Climbers]]" it was DeMartino who was tasked to translate Barch's traumatised whimperings into English, which he was able to do.
Daria knows exactly what to say to please Barch and can manipulate her misandry to get a better mark. Barch seems to like Daria's more cynical ideas and comments. ("[[The Lab Brat]]")
In "[[The Big House]]", during a hockey game against DJs, Barch is seen having [[Rock N' Roll Randy]] in a headlock and punching him repeatedly while snarling "It's payback time, Randy!". It sounded like a personal vendetta: was Randy intended to have been her ex-husband?
Despite her misandry damaging her ability to teach, Barch seems to have some sense of pride in her work - in "[[Fizz Ed]]", when she was forced to give inane lessons that would promote [[Ultra Cola]], she was clearly fed up and responded to her suggested 'lesson plan' by announcing "or I can just spend the rest of the day in the teachers' bathroom, staring at the tiles" and then walking out. Later, in "[[Lucky Strike]]", she was the first teacher during union negotiations to bluntly ask Li "are we getting our raise or not?", and took a key role in the union strike by crafting the picket signs (which weren't fit for purpose and had to be redone by [[Jane Lane]]).
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