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he/him, bylines NBC Think, Atlantic, WaPo, Pitchfork, Guardian, Foreign Policy. Wrote Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism for Rutgers UP.

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    Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

    Noah Berlatsky Retweeted Alisha Grauso

    Superheroes are really different from myths in a lot of ways. Also the MCU is the most successful media juggernaut in explored space; the defensiveness seems silly. You won!https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880 …

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    Alisha GrausoVerified account @AlishaGrauso
    People dismissing comic book movies as "kiddie shit" and completely failing to realize superhero stories are essentially a collective American mythology and the closest thing to a shared lore we have. Eastern European folk tales & Nordic mythology were largely "kiddie shit," too.
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      2. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

        Myths were generally about human limitations; superhero stories are about how humans can do anything. Stories post death of fox look really different.

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      3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

        And obviously capitalist production is pretty different than oral story telling traditions

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      4. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

        But there is a huge and growing body of academic work on superhero films. Lots of ppl take them seriously!

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      5. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

        And lots of superhero films are bad and rote, is the truth. But lots of art is that.

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      6. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

        Also myths are not that great often! A lot of them are about how women who don’t let powerful men rape them deserve punishment, or about how challenging authority in any way is bad.

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      7. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020

        They can be fun and weird too, but we shouldn’t just blanket accept any story as uncriticizable, IMO.

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      2. Aaron Radney (Freelance Illustrator)‏ @aaron_radney 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @nberlat

        I keep saying this same thing. We nerds won. We need to learn to relax and enjoy that. Yes, this was stuff for kids. That was fine! There are good things in stuff for kids. Just folks got way too attached.

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      3. Aaron Radney (Freelance Illustrator)‏ @aaron_radney 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @aaron_radney @nberlat

        When you start using the definition I typically use for myths, super hero stories don't really fit (though I'm pretty sure I at one time used this framing too). I got this from the Extra Credits show. Not sure where they got it from but the thinking goes like this:

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      2. Laura‏ @oluckygal 11 Dec 2020
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        Isn't there plenty of American (settler) lore/mythology? Paul Bunyan and John Henry off the top of my head.

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      3. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @oluckygal

        Paul Bunyan was made up by advertisers!

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