I’m already seeing male reactors get very verbally defensive about that scene in She-Hulk where Jennifer describes how, simply as a woman, she has more experience in suppressing rage than Banner because speaking out will get you labelled “hysterical”, “emotional”, “difficult”, “too much of a feminist”, the list goes on. And if you snap back at the wrong cat-caller, you can get murdered. So now mcu bros are rushing at the opportunity to cry out “this is just another ‘marvel throwing in another woke scene for woke’s sake’. But like...it isn’t untrue. Comic nerds are all for female superhero protagonists until she, god forbids, talks about the dynamics of what it’s like to live within the confines of patriarchy.
MCU fans are always clamoring for the social commentary to be more “subtle” and not so “in-your-face”, just so they can mindlessly enjoy a punchy fighty show and not have to confront any real-world intersections with racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, all the -isms and -phobias you can imagine. Additionally, even when the social criticisms are embedded into the story, the conflicts are routinely either overlooked or watered-down and discussed at the individual-level as if these are just isolated incidents and not reflective of larger phenomena. Dudebros forget that superhero comic media, from the very beginning, has always been political. A lot of the mainstream characters we know and love today were created in response to the anti-war and peace movements during the seventies in the United States (this is also not to say that there isn’t some definite war propaganda and Red Scare-inspired comics out there either).
Comics are teaching grounds for morality, human good, and bad, power, greed, corruption. Comics have been about the social commentary from the get-go. The idea that the government (and by extent society at large) is villainizing and surveilling a specific minority group who carry varying physical and genetic traits contrasting to that of the “ideal national subject” because of a perceived inherent aggression or difference based on their physical attributes *ahem ahem mutants*...where do you think they got that from?
I literally sat through a dude being like “IN MY EXPERIENCE AS A MAN, THAT IS NEVER THE CASE! IF A WOMAN GETS UPSET AND MAKES A SCENE IN PUBLIC, THE MAN ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE THE BAD GUY BECAUSE IT IS ASSUMED HE DID SOMETHING WRONG. MEN ARE THE ONES WHO CAN NEVER BE ANGRY.” (Obviously for Black men, my argument is different because when Black men express rage, they are viewed as a threat or turned into spectacle, but the person who made this rant was not a Black man, nor was he factoring race into his argument). As if masculinity and gratuitous violence have not become nearly synonymous. When male celebrities are accused of beating their partners, fans run to their defense to say “well she shouldn’t have provoked him.” When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, the internet rooted for a televised boxing match between the actors/comedians. We all watched the Trump and Hillary debates right, where his belligerent behavior was coddled while she had to maintain composure?
We’ve collectively grown up watching male newscasters, talk show hosts, and reporters make jokes about angry women in sports, in the media or in news reports being on their periods, as a way to minimize the stressful and abusive circumstances, or people, women are subjected to. The world expects women to react to harassment with class and elegance; women’s anger, Black women especially, is never not mitigated. For male fans to come away from that scene wanting to eye roll is why the commentary is so “in-your-face” because a lot of y’all still don’t get it! Men are still finding ways to make women’s issues about them and the “loss” of their rights. In a world where Brock Turners are able to walk free, are you really trying to argue against this scene? Really? What else do you expect out of a series whose main character is AN ATTORNEY? Y’all are just not going to enjoy this series then, as per usual.
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lmaooooooo I just remembered that one time I was explaining to a friend that people who are TOO conventionally attractive kinda become unattractive to me bc they're too perfect & symmetrical, and I much prefer hot people who still have some character to their face. she then proceeded to tell me "oh that's why you love off. he's pretty but not TOO pretty." I WAS SO GODDAMN FLABBERGASTED ALL I COULD REPLY WAS "haha yeah..." 😭
no but for real, why do people & especially people irl KEEP coming at me with their WRONG and insulting off jumpol takes?? when they KNOW how much I stan him?? do I open my mouth when they stan the most mediocre thai actors in existence?? NOPE. just STFU thanks 🫶
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I'm back talking about Harry Potter and Snape's worst memory because while I hate the author y'all bug me.
Snape worst memory isn't James bulling him or string him up in front of the school, (that was bad I'm not saying it wasn't) it was Lily ending her friendship with him because he called her a Mudblood. With evidence.
To prove my point we have to go read the Deathly Hallows when Snape gave Harry his memories! We get to see the scene again but this time the thing that sticks out the most is Snape calling Lily a Mudblood. Now if that's not enough proof the next memory goes like this.
*Outside Gryffindor Tower*
Snape: I'm sorry
Lily: I'm not interested
S: I'm sorry!
L: save your breath... I only came out here because Mary told me you were threatening to sleep here.
S: I was. I would have done. I never ment to call you a Mudblood it just-
L: Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends- you see, you don't even deny it! You don't even deny that's what you're all aiming to be! You can't wait to join You-Know-Who, can you? I can't pretend anymore. You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.
S: No-listen, I didn't mean-
L:-to call me a Mudblood? But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?
*Lily leaves. Memory ends*
The next memory is Snape becoming a turn coat for Dumbledore so he could keep Lily safe because Voldemort wouldn't spare her.
Snape has had worse experiences then a teenage James Potter being a bully (even if it was shitty). so we look at the rest of the memory and lo and behold what do we see? The actual worst moment of Snape life, the moment he lost Lily forever.
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So fucking disrespectful for Miguel to go “You shouldn’t be Spider-Man. You were meant to have never been bitten and your Spider-Man should never have died!”
Like excuse the fucking—???? The god damn DISRESPECT to Chris Pine Peter Parker? In MY house??? He was MILES’S Spider-Man!! He greeted that kid with wonder and “I thought I was alone.” His last words to him were that he trusted him to save the day, and promising it would be okay.
Are you going to stand in this sacred place and call Chris Pine Spidey a lair? How dare you. How DARE you. He ALWAYS gets back up and he did! Even dead! He had a MINUTE with Miles Morales, and the kid chose to become Spider-Man from it. He used the one move Spider-Pine taught him to shut down the collider in the finale, the move Gwen and Peter B didn’t teach him. He trusted that kid. He died for that kid. Are you saying he would regret that? Would ‘undo’ it, if he could!??? Are you trying to say Spider-Pine would not have wanted this? You think he would tell Miles Morales he doesn’t belong??? Your bitch ass lying ugly soul trying to tell me that Chris Pine Spider-Man would look a Brooklyn kid he protects in the face and tell him he can’t be Spider-Man and is a fucking mistake and wishes he could take that away from him?!?, He knew that kid for seconds and loved him. He’s fucking SPIDER-MAN. He wouldn’t choose himself over a kid! He literally didn’t!!!! And the ENTIRE legacy that man chose to leave behind, his own WORDS his wife relayed for him after his death??? Were that ANYONE can be Spider-Man, and anyone could have been, and we ALL have that potential inside us!!! ‘Canon event’ ‘supposed to be’ ‘always’ ‘fate’ how DARE you stand where he stood.
How dare you put words in his mouth. How dare you try to take that choice away from him and call it wrong. How DARE you claim what ‘should’ be in his reality over what he chose?!?!! The only person with a right to say he shouldn’t have died and Miles should have never been Spider-Man, is HIM, and he DIDN’T. He told him to run.
You think a little thing like a grand design could possibly change that???? Who do you THINK HE WAS!?!? He’s fucking SPIDER-MAN. How DARE you try to choose over him? How DARE you claim to have that right? The disrespect!!! I will not STAND for it. ‘Formula’ ‘canon event’ ‘every reality’ shut the fuck up. There is no ‘always event’!!!?! Spider-Man is always some things sure—an everyman, funny, kind, self-sacrificing, he always gets up, he loves, he tries, he forgives, he does his best, even though life is cruel, and he makes mistakes, but he keeps trying to be better. And ALL of those things? are CHOICES. Active. CHOICES. That ANYONE can make. Not a ONE of them, is an event, or loss, or a rule!!! That’s contrary to the entire idea of who he is. There is no formula!!! It’s a leap of faith!!!! How DARE you claim to know who belongs in another Spider-Man’s world, like your fanfiction time stream web could possibly be more cosmically of significance than the dying choice of a Peter Parker who loved Miles Morales. How fucking DARE you.
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Mrityunjay: Durykarna (1)
bro B r o BRO I'm halfway through Mrityunjay, right now on Duryodhan's POV and I SHIT YOU NOT his description of Karna is straight (hah) out of a fucking romance novel.
I MEAN THIS SHIT;?!!!?! Fucking G O L D
(The following translation sucks but trust me when I say that this gay loser describes Karna in the most flowery way POSSIBLE)
He (Karna) has a way of making all those who were close to him, his own in every way. With his many attractive qualities, he has won over the vast majority of citizens in this capital city. But his most powerful and mesmerizing trait is his enviable personality (in this context; his physical appearance).
Whenever he stands in front of me, I don't know why but it feels like there are countless particles of radiance fluttering right in front of me. Every time I look into his blue eyes, the blue vastness of the sky pales in comparison.
Sometimes, I would run into him on the royal staircase of the palace as he was returning from a bath (in river Ganga). I will never be able to forget the way he looked then. The way the residue of the clear droplets of Gangetic water shines brilliantly in his wet, curly golden hair, it reminds me of dewy sunflowers in the garden that dance to the tune of the wind.
His gentle swaying earrings, his magnificently smooth forehead, his nose as straight as a flagpole, the colour of reddish-pink lotuses flushed across his cheeks, arched golden eyebrows racing towards his ears, biceps as large as an elephant’s trunk, the carved, glowing muscles of his calves, his broad and elevated chest could be likened to the huge back of one of the mega turtles of Ganga, his neck round and thick like an arrowhead, his shoulders were strong and chiseled, not unlike a bull’s and all of these features were beautifully enhanced with his sunlike round face!
In my opinion, there was no other man that could rival Karna’s distinguished beauty (and caliber) in the entirety of Hastinapur. He’s reserved and talks very little. But his silence is a living commentary! Whenever he speaks, the sound resembles the clear gong of a mace smashing against another, grainy and deep.
In the terms of voice and the style of speaking, Karna is only second to the Grandsire (Bhishma), who is my favourite.
Sometimes while talking, he would break into a breath-taking smile and his teeth would cast a golden glow and I...
and I forget Guru Drona’s hurtful neglect towards me, forget the insults hurled at me by Bhima-Arjun, hundreds of wounds that scrap the deepest corners of my heart are long forgotten. I forget that I’m the crown prince of the Kurus, forget that tomorrow I’m going to be the emperor of Hastinapur. And like the endless buzzing of a bee, only one thought starts spiraling in my head--
“Is Karna really a Suta (the son of a Suta)? In the modest hut of a charioteer, could a man bearing such an ethereal form be born? Is Karna really inferior?”
Then my soul tells me quite defiantly, “Karna is not a charioteer’s son! He is the epitome of brilliance! How can a glowing jewel (*paraphrased) be born in a cave of darkness? Karna must be some celebrated king’s bright and courageous son. Karna must be a Kshatriya!”
@kaurava-apologist @rorapostsbl
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