Me : *praying* please don’t let marvel fuck up Carol Danvers like they did Wanda and Nat and make me hate her.
Me : *not helping* Don’t worry, from that old comment about how she’s so morally pure that she knows she’s right and doesn’t want to hear from anyone else, they’re gonna fuck her up like they did Steve instead.
Why I say I want Tony Stark to live: His story is a beautifully orchestrated redemption arc requiring life at its end for it to hold any narrative value. All the motifs therein encourage the notion of rebirth. Of trial and error. Furthermore, he typifies the “father” archetype that has been a prevalent recurrence in the entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and, as such, it is only fitting he survive to become a living embodiment of a good father to oppose the representative bad fathers before him.
Why I really want Tony Stark to live: … spite 😈
I 100% want Tony to live just to spite the antis. Imagine spending nearly a decade screaming about wanting him to die, only to receive a gigantic middle finger from Marvel. Delicious.
(in my defense, I live for spite and attention)
Tony antis: lmao tuna is gonna die in infnity wars!@ can’t wait ⚰✌
Marvel: [Tony gets stabbed]
Tony antis: we love you thanos we’re so wet for you thanos 👅💦!
Marvel: [Strange sacrifices the Time Stone to save Tony’s life]
Tony antis: b-b-bullsshjfoawirto
Marvel: [Tony is one of the sole survivors after 50% of the entire universe is purged.]
Tony antis: …
Marvel: [Tony and Steve kiss and make-up. Steve dies saving the universe. Tony retires and gets married.]
Some racists in the notes proving the point and waiting to be blocked……
As a White woman, I am not going to claim that my experience is identical to those of Black people, but a similar phenomenon happens with women. Men just seem absolutely appalled by the idea of a movement/space that doesn’t exist to cater to them and just have to leap in and interject. Hence all the “What about the men?!” and “Not all men!”
Women have long had their own spaces they’ve carved out for themselves. When the wider culture makes it clear that they either don’t care about issues affecting people like you or if culture is actively hostile to people like you, the persecuted people will band together, find their own space to talk, and do what they can to take care of each other. Regardless of race, religion, gender, or orientation, humans make groups. It’s what we do.
The sad truth is that for all the progress we’ve made, women are still treated as some bizarre special interest group, lumped into the minority category, no matter how ridiculous the idea is. Women make up half of the population; that’s entirely too massive to be a minority group, which is why I try to make a point of never referring to women as minorities.
I suppose some jagoffs are all ready to leap into the ring, point out that I should have said “Some men,” instead of just saying men, but I am through with those disclaimers. They allow jerks a way of weaseling out of discussions and in any case, if they aren’t capable of parsing out nuance (i.e. A woman is talking about their experiences and not necessarily the entire 50.4% of the world’s population) then either they are completely incapable of grasping some of the ideas behind language or they’re being more than just a wee bit disingenuous.
I wonder if the people who do this sort of thing, if they show up at Gay Bars and are like “Straight people matter too!” Do they go to breast cancer fundraisers and are like “All cancer matters?” It’s akin to handicapped parking spaces. They don’t care that they have the whole lot; they care about the few spaces that they aren’t allowed to use.
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