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So, apparently, SJWs and “feminists” have chased Joss Whedon off of Twitter.

Why? For having a female character express how it made her feel to have the ability to raise a family taken from her against her will. This news is also coming fresh off the heels of the Batgirl variant cover controversy. Apparently, female superheroes (or female anythings) aren’t allowed to have any humanity to them. They’re not allowed to show weakness or flaws. They’re not allowed to be victims of anything, even if that gives them a reason to fight, and even if they overcome what happened to them, and become stronger because of it. What, then, are we saying about victims? With the Batgirl cover, they’re treating being a victim of sexual abuse as though it were leprosy, and even trying to erase that aspect of the character. What are you telling the victims of the world when you refuse to allow them anything they can connect with? What are you telling them when you want to erase them from existence?

Sadly, a lot of the people commenting on comic books and comic book characters nowadays–calling them “sexist” and “misogynistic”–don’t even read comic books. Many people just see a bandwagon to jump on so they can tear someone else down, and boost their own sense of self-importance. One person says it’s “bad” or “trash”, and they rally a group behind them that just blindly eat whatever bullshit they’re being fed. It doesn’t matter what the franchise is, so long as there’s a reason to pull out the stakes and torches, and scream “MISOGYNY!” to the heavens while applying menstrual waste to their faces as war paint.

This witch hunt bullshit has got to STOP. This is not “empowering” women. It’s treating us like hyper-sensitive little glass dolls that can’t be moved a single inch without shattering. I’m not a little glass doll, and neither are you. If you can’t sit and watch a non-fictional story without trying to find something to be “offended” by, you need to take a step back, and seriously reevaluate your life. You claim to want equality, and you claim to want women to be seen as strong, yet you do the equivalent of sitting in a corner crying and demanding a hug just because little Timmy didn’t pick you first to play dodge ball. To represent us this way is ass-backwards, and embarrassing. It’s also incredibly insensitive to people that have overcome trauma, because we’re telling them that they can’t be anything more than a victim. We’re telling women that they can’t have flaws. We’re telling women that they’re wrong for having emotions. How do you possibly think that’s going to improve how women feel about themselves? You’re not only perpetuating, but CREATING, impossible standards for women.

This behavior is disgusting, and incredibly disrespectful. You don’t fucking send death threats to a director just because a character that IS NOT YOURS, AND THAT YOU HAVE NO SAY SO AS TO WHO THEY ARE turned out to be different than what you wanted them to be. This is not how anyone should conduct themselves, and it sure as fuck is NOT how I want to be represented as a woman.

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The fact that this even needs to be said says a lot about the state of the internet in 2015. The fact that people flocked to Joss Whedons twitter to send him fucking death threats and told him to kill himself over a plot point in a movie, which might I remind you all is a work of fiction.

So apparently people seem to think that this type of behaviour is fucking right? I understand not being happy about whatever it was that happened in the movie, I don’t know what it is besides that it involves the character of ‘Black Widow’, because I haven’t seen the movie yet but have been doing good at avoiding spoilers.

But no matter what it was, it does NOT justify sending messaging urging a man to kill himself over a fucking movie.

The internet is a toxic place, and it makes me sick.

Tumblr in a Nutshell

Tumblr: Please don't bully people. No one deserves to be bullied.

Tumblr: *sends Joss Whedon hateful messages, death threats, and suggests that stop doing what he loves and kill himself over a sequel they were disappointed in and his decision of headwear in a Twitter profile pic*

Joss Whedon: *deletes Twitter page*

Tumblr: *laughs and makes fun of Joss Whedon for deleting his Twitter page, patting each other on the back for making it happen*

Tumblr: Remember, bullying is wrong!

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I could not recognise her for the whole movie…

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“Fine, I’ll do it myself” Thanos, Age of Ultron

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Mark Ruffalo is better than all of us 2k15

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In case you were unaware, Joss Whedon has deleted his twitter account due to all the hate and threats he had received on there. As for the why, to go in depth would be considered a spoiler, but it has to do with people misinterpreting a line and minor plot line from Black Widow in Age of Ultron (more here, spoilers: x).

Here are some tweets from other Marvelites on the issue:

So I would like to thank everyone who has not taken this issue out of hand. And to everyone who is threatening Joss:

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here’s what we know about captain america: civil war so far:

returning for the creative team: joe and anthony russo (directors), christopher markus and stephen mcfeely (screenwriters since cap 1), trent opaloch (cinematographer), henry jackman (composer) [markus&mcfeely and the russos will also be helming avengers: infinity war parts 1&2]

from the cast of cap 2, chris evans, scarlett johansson, anthony mackie, sebastian stan, and frank grillo are confirmed to appear in cap 3

despite reports that say otherwise, cobie smulders and samuel l. jackson have not personally confirmed their appearance in cap 3, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not appearing

there has also been no word about emily vancamp reprising her role in this movie

aside from the original cap 2 cast, jeremy renner and elizabeth olsen have also been confirmed to appear in this movie

rdj will reprise his role as tony stark

black panther will make an appearance in this movie, played by chadwick boseman

daniel brühl confirmed that he is playing baron helmut zemo

there has also been no confirmation that the vision (paul bettany) will appear in this movie

it still remains unclear if spider-man is appearing in this movie

filming has already begun in atlanta, and will follow in puerto rico and berlin

civil war will be essentially the consequence of the events of the winter soldier and age of ultron, and therefore “not about the secret identity thing, as much as it is about, overall, who reports to who, and who can agree to oversight committee”

the timeline of the movie takes place “a couple of years” after winter soldier

the focus of the movie will continue to be the relationship of steve and bucky, which is complicated by political and powerplay themes

black widow will “continue to confront her past while participating in the civil war”

chris evans: “morality hits tony, humanity hits tony. all of a sudden he feels responsible. neither of them are blindly convicted. it’s blurry and that’s what makes it great. no one’s right, no one’s wrong.” rdj: “it’s going to make it even harder for them to come to an agreement.”

civil war will jump off into avengers: infinity war, and will set-up the real battle

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#okay i know some people hate this scene because they think it’s whedon making fun of cap#and that might have been how he intended it#but the way evans and rdj played it is so perfect#because there’s steve’s sass coming back#’seriously?’#’seriously tony?’#’what exactly are you expecting from me?’#’it’s been like a week and a half since i got here from the 40s’#’what does it look like?’#’well it seems to run on some form of electricity’#unspoken ‘you moron’#and tony’s response is just like#’i don’t know what i was expecting’#’you got me there’#i don’t know#i just thought the two of them played it perfectly off each other [via invisiblespork]

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Yes, this. It wasn’t hateful or sniping at all. Steve was confronted with something that bore only the vaguest resemblance to electrical wiring as he knew it, so he called it, knowing he was not giving Tony any useful information. And Tony instantly recognized the fault in his own logic, did not snark Steve out as his custom in most situations, and instead guided Steve, who didn’t know what he was looking at, through a process that Steve had to trust was correct and would solve their problem. And it did, because they relied on each other and communicated clearly.