[beastsofarda]

Anyrra - a Tolkien-based OC of draconic nature. Indie, semi-selective. 18+, crossover and AU friendly. This is a sideblog; I follow back with @middlearda. Will also write Smaug and Gwaihir upon request.

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[profeminist]

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True story: guys online are actually complaining that Captain Marvel doesn’t smile in the trailer.

[profeminist]

Update: Brie Larson’s response:

[saintdollyparton]

I wonder if these guys actually realize how stupid they sound after seeing Brie’s response? Probably not. Carol has a universe to save and amnesia to deal with among so many other things. Plus her rediscovering her humanity is literally part of her story since she doesn’t remember her life on Earth. When the movie starts, she’s operating by her Kree side that is less emotional and more logical.

Also just stop telling women to smile. They’re not here to look pretty for you. No one tells dudes to smile, especially superheroes.

[bestnatesmithever]

[Captain Marvel trying to remember life on Earth]

Some dude: Hey! You should smile more!

Captain Marvel: Oh fuck. Now I remember.

[Captain Marvel flys away and leaves Earth to rot.]

[itistired]

Last comment got me.

[suicunesrider]

Just thought I’d mention, I watched the original trailers for the first solo films of all these heroes:

Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, AND Spider-Man

And they all smile less in their trailers than Captain Marvel does in hers.

That’s right. Captain Marvel smiles even more than little Peter Parker does, as far as first trailers go.

And yet nobody was whining about how they needed to smile more. Just the woman.

[virgoprivilege]

[suicunesrider]

It’s the same shit with men calling Carol Danvers “Carl Manvers.” If a female character doesn’t fit the incredibly narrow ideals of what THEY think women should be, then they hate her. And they obsessively insist that she’s not a real woman.

For reference:

I’ve seen plenty of women with this body-type, AND this type of face. Plenty. But I guess they aren’t good jack-off material…. so they shouldn’t be allowed to exist. These men will claim she’s not “woman enough" and is just ~“being made into a man”~

Oh, and the MCU version also isn’t showing T&A, or bold lipstick/mascara, and is wearing the same practical outfitting as the male characters…. so of course she’s already an “ESS JAY DOUBLE-YOO” character, or whatever.

So I decided to compare my body to She-Ra’s, because a frequent thing I’m hearing is that she’s “flat-chested”.

LOL …… o k a y.

I’m a 24 year old woman, seen here with super stylish, totally-adult penguin pants. I make She-Ra look like the bustiest woman alive. I honestly see more sense in the claim that her hips aren’t as wide as most women’s are, and she has broader shoulders.

And, well, shit. I guess women who have narrow hips, or a small ass, or broad shoulders, aren’t “real women.” Just like how I’m not a “real woman” for having a flat chest. I mean, I guess She-Ra’s other big crime here is not wearing lipstick?… and god forbid, having thick eyebrows? (Which a lot of real girls do).

God forbid any of these girls/women get ANY representation at all.

“If we can’t jack off to you, then you shouldn’t exist.”

In the end though, it all comes down to demographic. There was a He-Man reboot a while ago, that fans of the original series loved…. but it didn’t do well, because the actual children of 2002– the demographic it needed to appeal to– didn’t like it as much.

Jee, it’s almost as if you gotta appeal to the current generation, not the nostalgic piss-babies.

Even a creator of the original She-Ra is defending her reboot, rejecting the idea of an “ideal female body,” and mentioning that the toxic nostalgic fanbase are seeing things through a pre-pubescent lens, having imprinted on the original She-Ra “like baby ducks.”

[geekandmisandry]

“Don Cheadle has come to the defense of his “Avengers: Endgame” costar Brie Larson after a video published by body language expert Mandy O’Brien went viral for criticizing Larson’s appearance and behavior during the Marvel movie’s press tour. O’Brien analyzed a joint interview with Cheadle, Larson, and Chris Hemsowrth, referring to the men’s body language as “relaxed” and accusing Larson of being domineering by being “stiff” and “trying to be taller than these gentlemen.”

“She is really trying to dominate them,” O’Brien says of Larson in the video, which has earned over 400,000 views in a week. “I guess in her mind, domination equals acceptance…In reality, submission will get you a lot further in friendship circles than trying to dominate and boss everyone around.”

When Larson says she did her own stunts as Captain Marvel, O’Brien slams the actress for being “unprofessional” and immature. Larson is also accused of giving Hemsworth “bedroom eyes,” which apparently means she needs Hemsworth to “validate her” by thinking she’s pretty. The video is both disgraceful and nonsensical, which is why Cheadle put the clip on blast in social media posts calling out O’Brien.

“You should see my ‘body language’ right now,” Cheadle said. “This is some of the funniest stuff i’ve ever heard. Brie was trying to keep her ponytail behind her because her hair stylist kept flying in and fixing it. She’s actually being over accommodating. Amazing.””

Anyway this is a good time to remember that body language experts aren’t a real thing because body language is personal and ambiguous, this woman is just a sexist pig and Don Cheadle is awesome.

Also, no way would this woman tell a man that submission is an ideal trait to make people like him

[onlyblackgirl]

“body language experts” are always full of shit

[autistic-danvers]

i’m actually just stunned reading this. the stupidity. my god.

[musings-of-an-artist]

People will do anything and everything to criticise a woman and put her down. Her looks are “bedroom eyes”. Her body is “dominance”. Her independence is “disrespectful”. If there “experts” spent a little more time checking their BULLSHIT it would be a lot more fucking helpful to the world !

[suicunesrider]

Anyway I love Don Cheadle

[syrosaur]

[jadewolfe]

My GOD the twitter drama is exploding. As of today, here are a couple updates for anyone interested:

The "insulin is free" tweet from the fake-verified Eli Lilly account tanked the company's stock, along with the stocks for two other major BioTech firms, by up to 4%

The "we're suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United States, et al" tweet from a fake-verified Lockheed Martin account tanked Lockheed's stock today

Since 8:00AM this morning there has been a tweet claiming Elon Musk was starting a program called "Elon's Tots" wherein he would pay off people's student loans

Numerous politicians and pundits have been targeted by trolls leveraging verified accounts to fuck with their public images, and many of them aren't being addressed nearly as fast as the fake-verified Elon Musk accounts

Twitter is allegedly worth 1/4 of what Elon bought it for

Tesla's stock has allegedly fallen by 50%

Elon has said Twitter may have to declare bankrupty

lmao

[turnways]

[ambidexedition]

[otahkoapisiakii]

!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!

I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered

PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

You know how in Lord of the Rings and Narnia and other films shot in New Zealand, the scenery looks like it’s got a big sparkly filter added over it in editing? Yeah well went to a river yesterday and it actually just looks like that

[ancientbread]

The thing about method acting is everyone talks about that joker guy being a dick or whatever but no one ever talks about Viggo Mortensen in the lord of the rings sleeping in the horse stables and leading the entire cast on random adventures

[sunshiny-rants]

Iran: protests against women being killed because of the hijab law

Pakistan: floods causing mass displacement and humanitarian crisis

Puerto Rico: no drinking water due to catastrophic hurricane

every news station for the past few weeks: THE QUEEN IS DEAD

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Credit to @macrosbudt, who created the original post and gave permission to repost. I'm trying to blaze this. If it doesn't work, that means the moderators rejected it.

Edit: Yeah, they rejected it. This is at least the 3rd time they've decided to reject a post about women being oppressed.

[icarodamiano]

A post by @OnCanadaProject Damiano shared on his Instagram story — September 25, 2022

[wendystella]

Some women choose hijab, some do not. Both are CHOICES to be respected.

[intensepokerface]

Tomorrow, September 25th is an important day in the Shia Islamic culture. It is the anniversary of the death of both the prophet and Imam Hassan.

Tomorrow is also a week after Mahsa Amini’s passing. In Muslim and Iranian culture, the friends and the family of the departed gather together again a week after their passing.

The people of Iran are no doubt going to protest tomorrow. They are going to mourn the loss of Mahsa and the many lives lost during this past week.

The government will try to derail this again. They will burn copies pf the Quran, and the Iranian flag and they will yell disrespectful things about Islam and then they will claim that all of that was done by protesters. They have done this before. About 13 years ago, after a long period of protests against the government, when they where unable to stop people, the government burned copies of flags with Imam Hossein’s name during the month of Moharram. They said that the protestors had disrespected Islam and so they used that as an excuse to slaughter people. They killed them in most violent ways. Mass slaughter. The protests stopped immediately.

Don’t let this happen again please. Do not they believe the shit they will inevitably feed you. Stand by Iranians. Know that standing by Iraninas will in no way mean that you are standing against Islam or any religion for that matter.

Iranians are not against Islam. Iranians are against the Islamic Republic government.

[girlbosscoded]

Please help our voices be heard!!

(Source @/middleeastmatters on ig)