Note that the whiny pissbaby fanboys came out in either greater droves for Captain Marvel, amping up their campaign of abuse and vitriol than they did for Wonder Woman. They did embark on a hate campaign for Wonder Woman, but not with the same level as what they brought to Captain Marvel. Why is this?
The reasoning is obvious: with Wonder Woman, they still had the hope that this movie would fail like most of the other female superhero movies of the past and then they could take comfort in knowing that it would be decades before they have to :gasp: suffer the indignity of seeing of seeing a female superheroine in the lead, kicking ass and taking names, her plot :gasp: being about something besides getting a man or being fetish material they could jerk off to.
Because when a male hero fails, Hollywoodโs like, โWhelp, shouldnโt have gone with that script/director,โ and hero gets a reboot before too long. When a female hero fails, Hollywoodโs like, โWhelp, guess people donโt want female superhero-led films,โ and women have to wait years, possibly decades before they get another film.
Before Wonder Woman, the last female superhero movies were Elektra and Catwoman. Do the math to figure out how many years separated those movies and Wonder Woman. While youโre at it, count how many male superheroes we got in that time period. Freaking Ant-Man got a film before Wonder Woman, even though Wonder Woman is part of DCโs trinity and is a hella much more prominent character than Ant-Man.
It never seems to occur to Hollywood that maybe people would go to female superhero movies that didnโt suck. Nope, must be the female hero. Thatโs clearly why the film failed. Women pretty much had to do constant โPlease donโt let this suckโ prayers/dances to the movie gods because if it failed, itโd be decades before we would ever see another one again.
The whiny pissbabies could also reassure themselves with the knowledge that the DCEUโs quality had been incredibly uneven at best. With all this in mind, they werenโt too scared about Wonder Woman.
But Wonder Woman didnโt fail. Wonder Woman brought audiences in droves, the film critics adored it, and it is still seen as the best DCEU film by many. Basically, it proved their beliefs to be bullshit. People can and will see female superheroes and might, nay, prefer those movies over ones with :gasp: :choke: :pearlclutch: male heroes.
So now theyโre running scared and itโs for this reason, they redoubled their efforts to try to sink Captain Marvel. Iโm afraid weโre going to have to put up with this for a while.
Hereโs hoping Hollywood continues to cram as much diversity into these fuckersโ faceholes as possible. The way I figure, either the pissbabies will scream themselves into apoplexy or theyโll be like, โHey I like and relate to this character, even though they have [a different gender identity/higher melanin count/orientation] than I do,โ and grow the fuck up. Either way, the world would be a much better place for it.
Though frankly I thought that Black Panther was even more radical in its usage of female characters, almost as radical as their usage of Black characters. By virtue of :gasp: :choke: having more than just one character to represent women as a whole, we were able to see, relate to, and understand women with a wide variety of viewpoints.
The multiple female characters was also another reason why Birds of Prey was so great. Having multiple female characters allows them to be actual characters with flaws, ambitions, and actual personalities, rather than token representations of half the worldโs population.
Itโs insane how rare this phenomenon of multiple female characters is.
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