deadpool is honestly more wholesome than any of the mcu movies
Explain
ok so
Doesn’t straightwash queer characters! this was a big one. (marvel movies have a huge problem with straightwashing*)
Deadpool is canonically pansexual, and the movies reflect this! Reynolds doesn’t shy away at all from Deadpool’s sexual interest in men.
(head injuries bring out deadpool’s romantic sexy feelings it seems. in the first movie, knife to the head = romantic montage with vanessa. in the sequel, fencepost to the head = deadpool sensually trying to go down on Colossus.)
(semi-related, both movies have some cute references to deadpool enjoying being on the receiving end in the bedroom.)
(yeah, it’s canon, Deadpool enjoys being pegged)
Oh hey, a healthy romantic relationship based on mutual respect and love! and with a fully developed female character with personal agency! A love interest who doesn’t just function as a plot device.
POLAR OPPOSITE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY. This really shines through in their marketing
(yes that pillows says “FEMINIST”)
(yes that is deadpool in heels dancing to celine dion)
Diverse casting! Characters who are poc just because poc exist!
Hey look, a cute lesbian couple treated with respect and one of them’s asian!
Holy crap i don’t say this enough but i loveDomino. What a badass. Sexy-but-not-sexualized black female action hero who is probably the coolest person in the movie.
Deadpool 2 took a run-of-the-mill white character design and made her interesting!
Her trademark eye patch is now vitiligo! She has awesome natural hair. And look, body hair exists! On a person who is a woman! Which shouldn’t be unusual, but here we are. Also, she’s fun
Portrayed by the talented Zazie Beetz. Did I mention how much i love this character?
Oh look, another much improved character design!
We’ve got your humdrum blondie cleft-chin stereotype replaced with a heavyset maori teen actor (Julian Dennison, who incidentally was in Taika Waititi’s indie movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople).
Overall themes: The movies have a lot of dirty humor and innuendo. But the overall takeaway is actually pretty sentimental. The Deadpool 2 themes in particular gets to me:
Ending the cycle of abuse. Not repeating the mistakes of the previous generation. “Kids give us a chance of being better than we used to be.”
The loss and recovery of family. Accepting friendship in the midst of tragedy. See also: Cable’s story arc.
Letting go of loss and bitterness to try to save a child who’s been abandoned by the world.
I’m honestly so excited about the choices the director & producers have been making for this franchise. They’re setting the narrative standard for modern superhero films. Can’t wait to see what the next movie has in store.
listen. cut off your hair. cut off all your damn hair. do you ever hear a man wondering if he’s too ugly to have short hair? no!!! there is no such thing as too ugly to have short hair. if you don’t want your hair, just cut off your hair. it feels so so so good.
Except no that’s not what happened, that’s not why he sued, he sued because when he went to ask for more napkins, the staff started racially harassing him, all over fucking napkins. As for the amount, ut was probably exaggerated by the lawyer so when the court shrinks it, McDonalds would still have to pay at least something.
There are no such things as frivolous lawsuits made by individual people.
McDonald’s (and most businesses) have insanely good pr departments. The woman who sued McDonald’s for being burned by their coffee was turned into the face of “people will sue over anything” because suing over coffee being hot sounds ridiculous, right? Except for she was literally burned to the bone. The pictures are nauseating. What she went through was horrifying.
If you ever find yourself ridiculing an individual on a company’s behalf you’re probably just repeating pr propaganda
This is one of several hills I will die on.
“There are no such thing as frivolous lawsuits made by individual people”
Stop Sexualising Aphrodite. Stop Making Aphrodite Trand-phobic!
I have seen this over and over and over. Young and old witches do this, not just beginners, but people who call themselves experienced and well rounded in this community. It’s disgusting and has to stop.
Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty, and procreation. She is not the goddess of women, or of pussy.
People are treating her as the goddess of sex and woman, especially women protrayed in a sexual way, and this is just not what she represents. For example, the other day I saw a post titled “Aphrodite wants you to love your pussy,” and then went on to say, “Your vagina, vulva, clit, and all.” ???
???
Since when is she the goddess of pussy???
Furthermore, posts that begin with things like the above tend to go on to say or have comments stating that she only cares about or loves female women. This is not true. APHRODITE IS NOT THE GODDESS OF WOMEN OR FEMALES. SHE IS THE GODDESS OF LOVE, BEAUTY, AND PROCREATION.
You cannot exclude trans women from worshipping Aphrodite. You cannot exclude men, males, or transmen from worshipping Aphrodite. And STOP reducing her to be “the goddess of pussy.” It’s disrespectful and really offends people who take their religion seriously.
Keep your transphobic, third wave feminist rhetoric out of Pagan, Wiccan, and witchcraft communities!
The very definition of irony is that fact that someone literally commented a link to their porn, asking me to promo their nudes.
Weren’t some of the priestesses of Aphrodite trans?
Yes, in fact, there were. There is a lot of inclusion for trans people regarding Aphrodite.
Aphroditus is the androgynous aspect of Aphrodite. They were portrayed as having a feminine bosy and shape; womanly hips and waist, breasts, a female face; but also a phallus. It is said that they are tied to the moon, and through their sacrifice, men and women exchanged clothing.
In later mythogogy, Apdrodite was said to have had a son whose was born to herself and Hermes, and was called a combination of their names: Hermaphroditus. Hermaphroditus was uninterested in love and shy, but one day whilst in the woods, he found a lake in which there was a nymph. She fell deeply in love with him and prayed that they would never be seporated. An unknown god answered her prayed, though not in the way she wanted. Their bodies became fused together and had both masculine and feminine aspects. Aphdorite raised them on high and said people like them, (trans people and intersex people) should be worshipped as symbols of fertility, thus, many of Aphrodite’s worshippers and priests being trans.
if you sulk and act like a sullen loser when someone asserts a boundary you’re not actually respecting their boundaries, basically if you make things unpleasant afterwards you’re creating an environment where people feel they cannot say no to you or assert themselves
This should be taught in every middle school health class
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