"As I consider Disney’s new depiction of femininity in Captain Marvel, I cannot help but mourn. How far we’ve come since the days of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
The great drumroll of the previous Avenger movies led to this: a woman protecting men and saving the world. The mightiest of all the Avengers — indeed, after whom they are named — is the armed princess turned feminist queen, who comes down from the tower to do what Prince Charming could not."
..................
How horrifying that a smart, strong, courageous woman would defend her country.
"As I consider Disney’s new depiction of femininity in Captain Marvel, I cannot help but mourn. How far we’ve come since the days of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
Mourn? For what?!
Interesting bias shown here:
The great drumroll of the previous Avenger movies led to this: a woman protecting men and saving the world. The mightiest of all the Avengers — indeed, after whom they are named — is the armed princess turned feminist queen, who comes down from the tower to do what Prince Charming could not."
Is Captain America derided for doing what Thor could not? Is Iron Man despised for doing what the Hulk could not? (sorry if I'm mixing comic book heroes.)
This reminds me of the funniest rationale I ever saw for why Mormon males can be sealed to more than one woman but women can't be sealed to more than one man. I am paraphrasing, but it went something like this:
"What a waste of resources that would be! Men are intended to take care of women, and if a man can take care of one woman, then surely he can take care of two. On the other hand, since it only takes one man to take care of a woman, if she were sealed to two men, it would just be a waste of resources!" ----Some Molly Mormon
There was, for a while, an uprising of pasty white basement-dwelling incels carpet-bombing the review section at Rotten Tomatoes, even before the release of this movie, until RT pulled the plug on their antics. Seems as if the concept of this female superhero has ruffled the feathers of a good number of snowflakes.
"As I consider Disney’s new depiction of femininity in Captain Marvel, I cannot help but mourn. How far we’ve come since the days of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
Mourn? For what?!
Interesting bias shown here:
The great drumroll of the previous Avenger movies led to this: a woman protecting men and saving the world. The mightiest of all the Avengers — indeed, after whom they are named — is the armed princess turned feminist queen, who comes down from the tower to do what Prince Charming could not."
Is Captain America derided for doing what Thor could not? Is Iron Man despised for doing what the Hulk could not? (sorry if I'm mixing comic book heroes.)
This reminds me of the funniest rationale I ever saw for why Mormon males can be sealed to more than one woman but women can't be sealed to more than one man. I am paraphrasing, but it went something like this:
"What a waste of resources that would be! Men are intended to take care of women, and if a man can take care of one woman, then surely he can take care of two. On the other hand, since it only takes one man to take care of a woman, if she were sealed to two men, it would just be a waste of resources!" ----Some Molly Mormon
Yeesh. This cuts both ways. Men viewed as a resource to be exploited and women viewed as something to be supported (yaz! slay queeeen!). Imho, Molly Mormon needs to get a j-o-b so Dad can spend more time with the fam. It is, after all, 2019.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Christians shouldn't fear Captain Marvel, they should fear Capitalism. If the movie is a flop, it's a flop. But part of box office sales is the dynamic of couples finding a movie they can both agree on. So it was either Captain Marvel or a movie about a camp where all the kids have diseases, and a couple of kids fall in love. Mr. Testosterone will point out that a CGI Superhero extravaganza is actually a meditation on feminism, an argument to which Ms. Estrogen will eventually agree. But this is not Disney or Marvel expanding our consciousness. This is about attracting market share in a segment that is traditionally dominated by young men.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
