Like, the criticism is happening Right now Captain Marvel is the MCU movie you can *least* talk about without getting criticism over it It is one of the most disproportionately heavily criticized popular media on the Internet in 2019-20
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
Right, so now we're also going to ignore a whole other swathe of context and pretend there weren't six months of literally tens of thousands of YouTubers making "Captain Marvel is the nadir of American liberal ideology" into its own thriving cottage industry
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Like (I feel bad about bringing her up again but sigh oh well) Lindsay Ellis tweeted that she specifically did NOT review this movie because she disliked it but did not want to be roped into the "team" of people "speaking against" the movie to "defeat idpol libfem ideology"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And also because she was a white American so it would have been distasteful? Again, anyone pointing out that the movie using feminism to leverage for US military recrutiment isn't same as people who think that women onscreen is the end of cinema. It's disingeous to pretend so.
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
As I recall, she wanted to be able to talk about the movie as a movie, i.e. about the structural issues and acting and writing choices she disliked, etc., and not get involved in a culture-war debate over whether the movie should exist and be singled out as uniquely problematic
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
I have no opinion on whether you personally hate women, I just strongly feel that the argument that CM is *particularly* problematic and has advanced the interests of the US military-industrial complex more than any other Marvel movie is obviously false
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And that the double standard is, again, obvious when you compare Captain Marvel to Captain America, a character who symbolizes the fundamental righteousness of the WWII-era military-industrial complex and whose costume is literally the US flag
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And whose first movie is literally an Army recruiting film cliche -- a stock storyline that follows the exact same beats as Heinlein's Starship Troopers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I think it's incredibly obvious the bandwagon that was started here had sexist ringleaders, but that once the bandwagon exists plenty of people jump onto it who have many other motives I still reserve the right to dislike the bandwagon
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