Clearly this post will have movie spoilers, so proceed at your own caution.
!I find it very disappointing the way Endgame treated men in comparison to women. First off, the whole “staring at Captain America’s ass” sequence implies all the male superheroes have a thing for each other, which makes all the tweenage fanfic writers wet themselves with excitement. But how would fans feel if Antman said Black Widow’s ass was “America’s ass”? Or Captain Marvel’s? Or any other female superhero? Obviously it would cause uproar as an act of blatant sexism and objectification. Additionally, fat depressed alcoholic Thor is used as a constant source of humor. Is it really a good idea to make fun of mental illness and addiction? And what if a female superhero felt down about their failure and similarly let herself go? Black Widow, for instance, blames herself. If she got fat and addicted to alcohol, fans would decry this as sexism, portraying women as weak, emotional, etc. Also, the scene where all the female superheroes - including side characters The Wasp, Pepper/“Iron Woman” and Shuri - team up to kick ass. Why is this needed? Doesn’t this just separate the female from male superheroes, indicating they are not equal? You’re telling me not a single male superhero helped, or that not a single female superhero was busy helping somewhere else? There are virtually no all-male superhero scenes in the entire MCU unless there are only 2-3 of them. This seemed like lazy pandering to me.!<
These are just my thoughts on the movie’s treatment of men compared to women. I’m sure there are more examples as well. I just wish we didn’t use objectification of men as an apparently “okay” method to make up for prior decades’ objectification of women. Neither is okay.
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You’d be singing a different tune if Captain Marvel had “America’s ass” for sure. It wasn’t a joke, it was old-fashioned catcalling.
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I don’t even know what this is supposed to mean, “amazo,” but I can definitely tell you that while objectification of men is either dismissed as “an irony-rich cop-out” or considered to be “completely okay”. That is sickening, hypocritical, and demeaning. Shame that you fully support that, apparently.
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If you read these articles, you’d see the authors claim that objectification of men is okay because men choose to be objectified (as if female models and actresses don’t), because men don’t get raped (studies show 30% of gay men are, 10.5% of men overall are, and 5% of men are forced to penetrate someone else against their will), and because men don’t experience “catcalling” or mistreatment (Magic Mike, anyone?). But alright, protecting men’s rights and preventing a culture which encourages their objectification and mistreatment is
Got it.
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Considering the dictionary definition of “feminist” is “the advocacy for women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes,” then yes, I am advocating for men’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Thank you for your compliment!
Glad your own false equivalency of marking feminism as bad is
Also, I don’t need to look up false equivalency since it’s self-explanatory and I’ve heard it used countless times. I’d really appreciate if you’d read the articles I linked for you to actually learn something, since the authors of those articles do indeed
Here’s a direct quote from one of the articles I linked: “Well, until you straight, white men live in a world in which your objectification leads to excessive victim-blaming [it does, arguably more so than women], unwelcome catcalling [America’s ass, Magic Mike], mortifyingly high rates of sexual assault and rape [the numbers I listed above seem pretty “mortifying” to me], and having your value in society based exclusively on what you look like [male models, male sex workers, male bodybuilders, etc.], I will continue to exercise my God-given right to objectify you.”
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What?
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