My local comic shop is staffed by a black man and a gay woman so no, they won’t be dressing up as Hydra vermin to try and promote the garbage that the disgusting sub-human dog-fuckers who run Marvel Comics are trying to promote
Also, because they don’t give a shit about promoting Marvel’s piece of shit comics, especially their utterly worthless “Event” trash
Oh my god WHAT
Marvel apparently looked at the disgusting marketing campaign that piece of garbage “Man in the High Castle” show did and thought “Yeah that looks like a good idea” and just kind of
Didn’t notice the part where all normal people were disgusted and appalled by it
How fucking tone deaf do you have to be to run a promotional campaign encouraging people to dress up as fictional nazis in today’s political climate where white supremacists and real life nazis are in a resurgence and the country is divided.
Related? Yes. A good idea? FUCK NO..
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Actual real life Nazis are now making “Fan art” using Nazi Cap as a propaganda image
Marvel has a presence on social media, there is no way they are ignorant of this at this point
Their response?
“Hey everyone!
Dress up as nazis to promote our shitty event comic!”
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Sorry but there is no excuse for this bullshit…Marvel KNOWS how this is making actual real world people who had their families or people like them be victims of the horrors of Nazi germany feel…we’ve literally sent letters, tweets and messages TO MARVEL about this making it clear how horrible, offensive and disgusting this is
This isn’t just a mistake…this is Marvel NOT CARING
I’m beginning to wonder if there aren’t a few nazis inside Marvel itself…
One of their executives donated a million dollars to Trump’s campaign
So the answer to that question is yes
You know perhaps instead of aiming complaints at Marvel, we should be aiming them at Disney.
Something tells me they might care a bit more about their reputation being tarnished by this pro-Nazi bullshit, and they DO hold Marvel’s leash now…
There really needs to be an organized letter writing campaign to their parent company.
Voting with your dollars is good, but ineffective if they don’t understand why, explicitly, they’re losing money.
Remember: free speech means this shit can’t be suppressed by the government. Disney coming down on Marvel like a fucking hammer would be capitalism functioning as intended.
If Spencer et al want to publish their ugly garbage on AO3 instead, that would be just fine by me. I support trash fiction. I don’t support enabling white supremacy financially. They have a right publish, not to be compensated for it. Nobody owes them a nickel.
Give these fuckers what Milkfed Yakofuckerface got: the door hitting their asses on the way out with a terminated contract.
Yes, this! Complaining to Marvel when their head is Ike Perlmutter, a vile old man who supports Trump, is worthless. Write to DISNEY, include examples of the alt right, Nazis, KKK, etc., photoshopping Captain America into a Nazi, and tell them that this is not suitable to children and it needs to stop.
Also? Boycott ANYTHING with Hydra Cap in it, on it, or whatever. Boycotting Marvel as a whole hurts Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel and other books that are not part of this. Tell Marvel that this is EXPLICITLY about Hydra Cap, and that the boycott will end when Tom Brevoort and Nick Spencer are fired.
This is a great idea – I’m looking up how to contact Disney right now!
Edited to add:
Boost the hell out of this. Nazi propaganda has no place in a decent society.
Reblogging this for the following, to make it more accessible to those who can’t use the image:
Disney Corporate Office Address
Walt Disney Company 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521
Executives: CEO: Robert A. Iger CFO: James A. Rasulo COO: Alan N. Braverman
Also: A clarification on my own above comment-
The transposition of Moldbread Yankeedoodle with Milkfed was a sneering pejorative likening him to a pampered veal calf prepared for conspicuous consumption, not to in any way link his unworthy and vile ass with the excellent indie comic brand founded by DeConnick, Fraction, and Zdarsky.
(I forgot that was the name of their label, tbh. That’s on me.)
so u mean to tell me that Disney got Captain America 2’ed????
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
this is one of the most important LGBT articles I have ever read in my life. It struck several chords with me and I recommend everyone to take some time to read it.
I was just reading this post about gendered socialization as it relates to emotional labor and I can’t find it anymore but I suspect the topic is particularly relevant to this post. Men, including gay men, never learn how to do emotional labor in their interpersonal relationships and straight men offload that labor onto their wives and girlfriends more often than not but if there’s no women around to offload the emotional labor it just … doesn’t get done. They just get increasingly mentally unwell????
So like, someone tell Michael Hobbes I have a very simple answer for his question.
Gay rights didn’t cure loneliness because toxic masculinity.
This is fascinating (in the sick to my stomach kind of way) that this is the same issues being brought up about bi, ace, and trans people: oversexualization of the community, the importance of positive representation and visibility, as well as intersectionality. It’s no wonder many minority groups don’t feel accepted into the LGBT community at large. They’re literally getting shamed out of the community by people trying to one up each other to display their masculinity to /feel loved at all/ and that’s. That’s a problem.
I also noticed this as a trans guy, but since I’ve had so much self made DBT skills on abuse and self care, especially related to my anxiety (where I got actual DBT), I’ve mostly shrugged it off and figured other guys in the community were doing that too. But thinking back on my experiences, that’s probably not actually as common as I thought.
Quote from article:
Pachankis, the stress researcher, just ran the country’s first randomized controlled trial of “gay-affirming” cognitive behavior therapy. After years of emotional avoidance, many gay men “literally don’t know what they’re feeling,” he says. Their partner says “I love you” and they reply “Well, I love pancakes.”
…Emotional detachment of this kind is pervasive, Pachankis says, and many of the men he works with go years without recognizing that the things they’re striving for—having a perfect body, doing more and better work than their colleagues, curating the ideal weeknight Grindr hookup—are reinforcing their own fear of rejection.
It’s called Tengoku, and it features two female leads: a trans lesbian, and a disabled bisexual woman.
Both are women of color (from a fantasy world based on Japan, with editors who helped me make sure their culture was portrayed accurately and respectfully).
Although I wrote the book, it was a team effort, with strong collaboration from several women (and men) who identify as Asian, mixed race, disabled, and trans. Again, this book features a female trans lead.
Today, I found out it was named a finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Awards in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category. (This year, there is no trans category, which is a problem for another day).
I am flattered and humbled that the GCLS judges thought my manuscript worthy of inclusion.
But. (There is a big but here). Some TERFS on facebook are writing articles saying it shouldn’t be eligible for the award, or even the category. According to them, trans women shouldn’t be eligible for lesbian book awards, even if they are lesbians and are in lesbian relationships.
I’m not going to link the article because my publisher has asked me not to. (She thinks angry comments on it from my fans will look unprofessional). But I feel the need to respond somehow, to let the detractors know that they are 100% wrong.
My wonderful publisher absolutely has my back, and the GCLS obviously does too, since Tengoku is a finalist.
But even so, I need them to hear they made the right call.
Contact them and tell them thank you for including trans lesbians in their awards. It should be common sense that trans lesbians count as lesbians, but unfortunately, some people still don’t understand. So please, please please, support the book, tell your friends, signal boost the fuck out of this post, and tell the GCLS trans lesbians belong in the lesbian category. Period.
Edit: Please be positive! I want to overwhelm them with thank you notes. They’re doing the right thing. ^^
Just imagine how good women hockey players could be if they were given the same opportunities as the men. Like the year round training, access to high end facilities, dietitians and personal trainers. Being able to practice more than twice a week at 10pm. Having all of the things that the NHL players take for granted.
Imagine if they didn’t have to have full time day jobs. If they could devote as much of their lives and time to the sport they love.
They’re so good now, imagine how good they could get if given the chance.
Stop abusing your boyfriends and yes what you are doing is abuse.
Stop:
Yelling at him in front of his friends
Hitting or slapping him when he does or says something you don’t like
Telling him he doesn’t have a choice when it comes to decisions that involve both of you
Telling him he can’t hang out with friends because you don’t like him
Telling him to not talk to other girls even if they are his friend
Forcing him to spend every moment with you
Belittling him and pointing out all his flaws
Calling him stupid or making fun of him for making a mistake
Threatening to break up with him if he doesn’t do what you want
Being emotionally manipulative and crying until he does what you want
Accusing him of cheating every time he’s not with you
Blow up is phone if he doesn’t text you every five minutes
Telling him you are the must thing that has ever happened to him and no one else will love
Physically attacking him when ever you are mad
Forcing him to have sex despite that fact that he said he didn’t want to
Invading his privacy by going through his phone
Getting mad at him for changing his password and demanding he tell you what it is
If a guy did any of these things to a girl it would be considered abuse but since its the other way around its considered normal. Throughout High school I saw many girl treating their boyfriends like shit. Sometime even physically abusing them in the hallways and no one trying to stop it because its a girl attacking a boy.
Boys: If your girlfriend does anything on this list leave her. It is abuse and you deserve better.
Girls: if you find your self doing anything on this list to your boyfriend you need to knock it off because you are being abusive.
!!!!!!!!
My brother was abused by his babies mom and it started like this and escalated to child abuse and neglect.
You don’t deserve to be screamed at, ignored, or assaulted.
Not showing affection when she wants or not hugging her before class) or missing a phone call doesn’t warrant getting cussed out or hit.
Lol, I lost 5 followers from reblogging this. That’s fine, y’all can go
Whole lot of grown women do this too.
Just wanna throw these in too
Being passive aggressive with him when he wants to spend time with friends or doing other things
controlling when he’s able to go out with friends
Breaking up his friendships with other girls just because you’re insecure
Making him feel like his opinions in decisions that affect the both of you are irrelevant and don’t matter
testing him in anyway in general without his knowledge or permission (example: catfishing! it’s manipulative and weird don’t fucking do that)
taking money/credit cards without permission to spend on things without his knowledge ( had an ex friend do this constantly to her boyfriend and she’d always condone it because “he’ll get over it” )
guilting him for hanging out with friends/family over you and making him choose between you and friends/family
telling him “you don’t love me if you *insert harmless activity he wants to do here* “
being rude or mean to him in front of others to assert dominance or power over him
downloading apps to spy on his phone activity (yes, this is a thing “”regular”” people do) or snooping on his social media to see who he’s talking to
hitting him, slapping him, punching him, shoving him. literally how do people not understand slapping your male partner is bad. people tend to find this funny in media and society and its weird. KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR PARTNER WITHOUT PERMISSION.
I come from a family of very forward and manipulative women and i see it in media all the time. it’s fucked and people need to not be accepting of young girls acting like snot-nosed, abusive shit heads that think they can get away with manipulation and cruelty because they happen to be girls.
Basically anything you see in cheesy high school set movies DO NOT DO.
Asian wlw and mlm are amazing and deserve everything good in the world
hi I made this post bc I have never seen a post supporting Asian lgbt folks and know a fence but supporting your local gays means supporting us too, especially when we aren’t as visible as others.
I’ve grown up living in a predominantly straight white world and consumed mostly western media all my life and idk bout you but there’s not a lot of us out there in the media or the entire entertainment industry actually. Asians in western media is already cutting it fine. Asian lgbt folks in the media? there’s like 3 people I can think of off the top of my head.
anyway I’m getting carried away here so. All I’m asking is for u to pls reblog this. give love to ur local Asian gay bc we don’t get enough
“The word ‘politics’ has become too all-encompassing,” SportsCenter host Jemele Hill said on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch in February. “Mike and I aren’t … breaking down the Affordable Care Act. That’s politics. Understanding somebody’s right to speak out against injustice, oppression, and police brutality, isn’t a political matter. It’s right or wrong.”
Okay so to give more context to the reason a video like this might be made– often times in fantasy stories, when a woman is given a sword she is given a rapier whilst a man is often given a longsword or an arming sword depending on how big a sword they need. This is largely due to the FALSE belief that rapiers are light swords and therefore more suitable for someone with less strength. Like I said earlier, this cannot be further from the truth. Rapiers are just as heavy as longswords, the weight is just distributed differently. In a longsword, the weight can be spread throughout the sword to allow for greater cutting power. Meanwhile, in a rapier the weight is almost all focused in the hilt, allowing a greater degree of control of the point of the sword, which is required since the rapier is first and foremost a weapon meant for thrusting at small gaps in armor and as such requires a great deal of control. That being said, neither sword is more masculine or feminine than the other, they are both powerful weapons designed for specific tasks on a battlefield.
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