It was so refreshing that the baseline assumption was Diana is a good person who really cares. You can have that and still have conflicthttps://twitter.com/nussbaumabigail/status/876483462043234304 …
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It really did push me hard away from the whole franchise for Man of Steel to say even Superman has to spend most of his life not caring
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That's toxic masculinity for you -- RAGE is a real emotion, we understand that, we get that when that happens it's overpowering
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Every other emotion -- grief, love, and especially compassion -- is extremely tenuous and uncertain and has to be teased out
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It's a sad day when Guardians of the Galaxy's Groot is a better onscreen distillation of Superman's essence than Superman
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Superman is supposed to be the guy who can't see anyone in pain even if it's trivial without feeling a sympathetic pang
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Like Groot gasping at seeing them make animals fight in the seedy space station
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Maybe it makes him come off as a huge dork in our ugly cynical society but he's a dork with incredible power, that's the fantasy
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He really would save every little kid's cat caught in a tree and talk every jumper down from every ledge if he could
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That's the kind of hero we need. I hope that's a takeaway for the studio execs when they're going over the #s for WW.
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