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
Because it deals with the US military during a period that people still remember and lived through. Your refusal to admit that it hits closer to home for people because it's *more recent* is very skewed. No one here grew up with watching WWII on the news. Kosovo yes.
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Replying to @KirifudaRed @AlexJThomas and
...Okay I know this is arguably whataboutism but Iron Man 1, which started the whole MCU, is transparently about the (at the time present-day) War on Terror It takes place in a very thinly fictionalized version of the Afghanistan conflict
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
"Terrorism" and the need to put a stop to it with the threat of overwhelming force by the US military-industrial complex is the explicit theme of all three Iron Man movies
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You can argue these movies probematized that theme and made the US military out to be flawed and showed the War on Terror has costs and so on ...Buuuuut they do that a lot more ambivalently than Captain Marvel! Tony Stark is still our hero and he's literally a US arms dealer!
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