In mass media women are only allowed to be powerful if they're perfect and good. If you tell a story about a woman with even patriarchally-pathetic levels of power, say, she disapproves of her husband dealing drugs, people get mad bc she's not perfect
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You might say we don't need more stories about grim male antiheroes, but I say we don't need more stories about perfect, good, female heroes. I want stories about women who are powerful and where "good" is irrelevant at most
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
There’s still such a shortage of female leads. We’re at WW and CM as leads right?
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl
And they’re both not really like, people who got powers, their whole lives are in Superland
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True. She’d be a good option, though she’s not powered, and they’ve spent so little time on her characterization
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Replying to @mssilverstein @BootlegGirl
Jessica Jones was a good one though. Not really an antihero, but at least a darker super
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I loved Jessica Jones. Her story was tied to her life, which is what I think I'm getting at. In real life if people had powers plenty of them would use them to just live their lives. Jessica uses her power to survive. She's not an anti-heroine, but she doesn't patrol streets
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein
I've always wondered what a real-life X-men type situation would look like. Super strength is a cool party trick, but like... when is it useful in real life outside of helping your friends move? Would there be societal pressure not to like, get an office job or be a lawyer?
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It would save a lot of money to just hire someone to do a forklift driver's job without buying the forklift but I'm not sure how useful it is if you only have the one person
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Most people who are extraordinarily physically gifted in our world directly make money from it as athletes Which brings up Dash's whole complaint in The Incredibles that for him to do this is somehow "unfair"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KenzieLutece and
I mean yeah sure in real life if there were an "X-gene" they'd pretty quickly make rules barring you from competition if you had it It's just that the existence of purely natural "superhumans" demonstrates how arbitrary sports are in the first place
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Such as Phelps and his lack-of-lactic-acid or whatever it is. I'm also interested in the other array of weird superpowers. Is Iceman doomed to either get a job powering refrigerators or just not bother with his powers at all?
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