Marvel Women Kicking Ass

Marvel Women Kicking Ass

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angrybooklady:

Yesterday morning, our puppy Barkley got very sick. Long story short (you can read more at the link), after several diagnostic tests, exploratory surgery, and a hospitalization, the vet expects him to fully recover. Unfortunately, he’s racked up quite a medical bill that we weren’t prepared for. We’ve started a GoFundMe, and any help you can give us would be much appreciated, even if you can only pass the link along to someone else.  

Here is the GoFundMe. Please share! Barkley thanks you!

Hi everyone! I know I haven’t been on this blog for a while. Life has kind of gotten in the way of keeping up with it. But we’ve started a GoFundMe for our sick puppy’s vet bill, and could use all the help we can get. I’m reblogging this from my personal blog because I still have more followers on MWKA. If anyone could donate or even just pass this around, we would be really grateful. Thanks so much!

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stars-collected:

so tumblr recently implemented a really ill-considered feature that pops up “related posts” when you like a post. a lot of these posts can be potentially very upsetting for someone who isn’t expecting to see them. also it’s just plain annoying.

if you have adblock you can stop these from showing up by blocking “tumblr.com##.rapid-recs

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I honestly think the Karen/Claire thing is pretty easy to understand. Karen is hated because she’s seen as vulnerable, she is obviously frightened, she cries a lot, she shows that she is affected by the things that have happened to her, she is uncertain. She’s not a typical “strong female character TM”, and while I don’t think that Claire is either, Claire is shown as more competent, more independent and less emotional.

Even though Karen, in the end, is the one who shows probably the most agency (she investigates Fisks’ mother, kills Wesley, etc) she doesn’t do it without showing emotion, so she’s seen as whiny and annoying.

I hate that people think they have to like one and hate the other, though. I think they’re both excellent, well rounded, fascinating characters. I think they both have different types of chemistry with Matt and they both show different sides of him as a character and I adore them both.

ok but claire isn’t less emotional though. she’s sarcastic and self deprecating and scared and passive aggressive and exasperated and uses humor to deflect and distance and de-escalate situations; she longs for things and keeps herself from having them because she knows she’d get hurt and they would be bad for her in the end, and it’s intimated that it’s because she’s had experience with it before. claire shows emotion, she just has different emotions than karen.

the hate karen gets can be attributed to misogyny without framing claire to be as somehow less offensive to patriarchal expectations of what women characters should be like.

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Last October, Marvel Studios announced that they would finally launch a female-led superhero movie. Captain Marvel, the superheroic moniker of blonde clobberer Carol Danvers, would take flight on November 2, 2018. The comic book juggernaut’s acolytes were mostly thrilled—a lady hero would finally get her day in the sun. “But what about Black Widow?” they screamed. “Where was the Black Widow movie?!?!” […] Scarlett, we’re sorry Captain Marvel took your place in the solo movie pantheon, but you’ll be severely missed whenever the powers that be have to send you off. We salute you.

Scarlett Johansson in This Avengers: Age of Ulton Trailer Is the Hero We Need

I want to love this article from Esquire, because it’s so complimentary towards Natasha’s place in the MCU, but no. It’s bullshit.

A corporation designed to make money decided- using, IMHO, some poor judgment- that a Black Widow movie wouldn’t get the returns they’re hoping for. Nothing was stolen from Black Widow, from Natasha, or from Scarlett. And the fact that everyone keeps parroting this bullshit explanation is ridiculous, particularly when there are so many films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. How come everything else gets to exist, but the women have to be in competition?

Captain Marvel didn’t take anyone’s place. Through the enthusiasm of fans and creators, Captain Marvel earned her own movie. In a few years, Captain Marvel is going to kick ass, in a movie that has her name on the poster. And maybe if we’re lucky, a few years later, Black Widow will get to do the same.

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I agree the narrative that she lost her slot to Carol Danvers is bullshit - and it’s a pretty blatant sign of internalized misogyny to instinctively place women in competition with each other.

But i do think Black Widow fans feeling like Marvel is wasting opportunities for a Black Widow movie, and feeling ripped off is legit.  But agree, Captain Marvel is not the problem, and that idea that it is is the assumption there should be one token-woman slot.

If anything, we should be pissed about Ant-Man taking the slot that should be Black Widow’s - because seriously, WHO GIVES A FUCK?  

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laughterkey:
“ kellysue:
“ oncomics:
“ mattfractionblog:
“ kelly sue celebrates passover the #teamhawkguy way
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Hate to say it, but she’s no Kate Bishop.
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Don’t you sass me, child.
I’m a 42 year old mother of 2. Yesterday, I *slept in* until 4:30am,...

laughterkey:

kellysue:

oncomics:

mattfractionblog:

kelly sue celebrates passover the #teamhawkguy way

Hate to say it, but she’s no Kate Bishop.

Don’t you sass me, child. 

I’m a 42 year old mother of 2. Yesterday, I *slept in* until 4:30am, got my babies up and fed, planned an Easter brunch menu, finished a batch of rewrites, worked all day writing more comics than you, managed to sneak in 30 minutes on the treadmill and a quick shower before grabbing my hilarious and brilliant husband, two amazing children and double-batch potluck dish and heading to a seder at the home of two of our best friends, where I *rocked* playing with my daughter and her new bow & arrow out on the porch.  

Kate Bishop is great. I love Kate. But she’s a fiction, sweetheart, and she’s no fucking me. 

Always reblog this.

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