The gender stuff on WandaVision is interesting, like the fact that Wanda is playing the role of a harried housewife but is actually running the show is supposed to be "subverting" sitcom tropes but of course it's mirroring many actual sitcoms, starting with Bewitchedhttps://twitter.com/MelanieMoore/status/1361144278815100928 …
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And it's the starting point of stuff like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie that gets you to the endpoint of the fully "subverted" Al Bundy/Homer Simpson/Hal from MitM stereotype of the Bumbling Dad who's a Spoiled Kept Prisoner in His Own Home
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Like... from an in-universe perspective the WandaVision setting moving "forward in time" is also bringing its true nature closer and closer to the surface
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I dunno I'm not saying this to attack the show or anything but it's interesting how it can be seen as a very Poor Men Woe Is Men narrative Vision *looks like* this square-jawed classic noble superhero, Wanda *acts like* a doting wife who's doing everything to make him happy
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And yet he's the biggest victim of all, he's being profoundly tortured, this whole paradise is a prison tailor-made specifically to hold him and keep him trapped in a lie
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Like I said in an earlier thread he's basically Leo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road Classic '50s breadwinner having a breakdown screaming at his wife "YOU TRAPPED ME HERE" Which, you know, is normally seen as pretty unsympathetic
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But this time they got us there through this roundabout fantasy magic shit to the point where it works Still, there's something to be said about how this rage against domesticity and quiet home comforts the show represents shades easily into misogyny
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I think the show avoids this noxious "You stole my 20s from me! I want to go back to the big city and stay up late and go to parties and be cool!" screed it could easily have become pretty well though It helps to tightly focus on Wanda as protagonist and Vision as secondary
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And like it helps that Westview IS a beautiful place and Vision DOES, when he lets himself believe in it, find happiness there We never 100% dwell on the fakeness and grossness and surrealness of Wanda's dream, even though that's all true and never far from view
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It actually gets harder-hitting as the sitcoms move forward in time and become closer to stuff I regularly watched on TV rather than antique alien artifacts Like the songwriters said the '80s theme song was written extremely sincerely and from the heart, and it really shows
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That they (Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez) are in the same life phase as Wanda and Vision in the '80s sequence, with two kids around the twins' age, and very genuinely and earnestly share Wanda's feelings of "building a forcefield of love against a collapsing world"
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"Crossing our fingers and singing our song We're making it up as we go along" And you're watching this one cheesy shot of the family having a picnic from a show that doesn't exist and you know this is fake and it has to end horrifically but you WISH it didn't have to
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