In honour of the song, which is an ode to optimism and happily moving past messy situations, from one of my favourite albums of all time - Talk of this Town by Catherine McGrath.
scissor sisters: oh, i could bury you alive, but you might crawl out with a knife and kill me when i'm sleeping, that's why i can't decide whether you should live or die ^_^
Iris West-Allen (The Flash) vs. Rose Tico (Star Wars)
Iris West-Allen
Rose Tico
Remaining time: 5 days 12 hours
Propaganda below the cut:
Iris West-Allen:
Fandom calls her a bitch and annoying for daring to challenge Barry and to be his love interest while being a black woman.
She is sweet but doesn't take shit from her father or love interest and she is a great journalist and a terrible cook (iconic).
Honestly I am overwhelmed thinking about it.
To start, the CW didn't even try to protect Candice Patton from online harassment and threats, to the point that she almost left after season 2 it had gotten so bad.
Literally every single time Iris challenged any other character on anything fandom called her manipulative, or a bitch, or controlling, or accused her of gaslighting. When she had to make hard decisions, she was called cold/emotionless by some and somehow too angry/mean at the same time (hmm, I wonder why that is). She was accused of "weaponizing" her personal relationships to get what she wanted regardless of the actual circumstances.
And to top it all off, the creators and many of the writers were white men who clearly did not get that Iris wouldn't just be getting pushback for being a woman. Way too many times the fact that she was a Black woman navigating her circumstances was completely ignored (e.g. another characters comments towards her came off as racist, not only sexist, and that should have been acknowledged). I gave up on the show entirely after a point, so I am not sure if the writing got better wrt Iris but maybe someone else knows.
IF IRIS WEST ALLEN DOESNT WIN THIS WHOLE GOD DAMN TOURNAMENT. To this DAY there is a LARGE section of the fandom that violently wants her dead. they claim she single handedly ruined the show and ignore the terrible writing aroundā¦ Quite literally all of it. If the show is so much as MENTIONED. ANYWHERE. youāll get a swarm of people going āwE aRe tHE fLaSHā even if IRIS ISNT MENTIONED AT ALL.
Her character got hate the SECOND Candice Patton was casted; with people claiming Barry (the white mc) ālooked betterā with Caitlin (a white woman); and Iām mentioning this because I donāt think you can divorce the misogyny leveled at Iris from the racism sheās subjected to. Itās misogynoir. But that saidā the fucking fandomās always just CLAMBERING for reasons to hate her. Sheās annoying, sheās a bitch, she shouldnāt have rejected Barry, āactually itās good that the men in her life didnāt tell her important information that (lethally btw) affects her life because sheās RECKLESS and would just throw herself into danger if she knew everything!ā <- same people often claim not to be misogynistic btw.
Also their evidence is always a single time in season 2 that she got in a dangeorus situation (while working as an investigative journalist) and called Barry to get her out of it. SHE WAS DOING HER JOB! THE ABILITY TO CONTACT BARRY PROTECTED HER; AND GAVE HER THE TOOLS TO PROTECT HERSELFā REALLY. those mfs just want her dead or sidelined. Cause ohhhhhh thatās when they start to hate her even more. In season 4, not only does she not die (in S3) like they wanted her to; sheās given AGENCY and the ability to cement her place in Team Flash. She doesnāt get forced into the role of a love interest. Sheās an active character and she helps with superhero and non-superhero stuff. And you know what, by all definitions she is a full-on hero. Because her ideas saved the day MULTIPLE times that season alone (Enter Flashtimeā anyone? did you mfs want Central City blown up by a nuke?). In fact; Iris saved the entire world in the end of season 4 with her belief in Marlize Devoe. And then later on? Saves the ENTIRE MULTIVERSE by almost single-handedly convincing Ryan Choi to help them in Crisis On Infinite Earths. ALSO almost everything people hate on her forā¦ is just blatantly incorrect. iykyk; thereās MANY examples. so Iris is a case where I will wholeheartedly say: FREE MY GIRL SHE DID NOTHING WRONG!
I could go on! And Iām sure others will. The Iris West Allen fanclub doubles as a defense club. Because Iris West-Allen is kindā intelligentā passionate and compassionateā beautifulā brave (remember when she jumped off a fucking building to save her husband?), sometimes a little too selflessā¦ She doesnāt take shit but she is INCREDIBLY forgiving at the same time. She built a media empire from the ground up and won a fucking pulitzer. She has an amazing fashion sense and on a CW SHOW! She has an unwavering belief in people and humanity (THAT HAS SAVED THE WORLD/UNIVERSE AT LEAST THRICE AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED). She has been through SO. FUCKING. MUCH itās actually unfairā but! In the end she got the happy ending she deserved with her husband and friends; and will continue to kick ass with her literal media empire. Her treatment in the show was more than questionable at times, and her treatement by the fandom FAR moreso; but she got her fucking happy ending at least. and Iām happy for her for that.
Vote Iris West-Allen!
Because she deserved and DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER FROM THIS FANDOM.
Rose Tico:
They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.
Sheās a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!
I meanā¦ we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)
She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!
The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr
Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out
She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.
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