So...
Been a while since I’ve done one of these.
Excuse my French, but what the fuck. As in, what the actual fuck.
From this article:
“Whedon, the guy who has done more for female characters in genre TV than almost anyone in television, was chased off Twitter by a rabid mob of mouth-breathers calling him a misogynistic pig, rape-monger, and racist…among other crazy statements and threats. All stemming from how he apparently “wronged” Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron and a joke Tony Stark makes. I have no idea where the racist comments come from as those make no sense at all.
Where did this all start? The Black Widow bit seems to have likely sprung out of Tumblr and then moved on to these psychopaths in their echo chamber of Twitter feeds, where I doubt 99% of them even watched the movie or even know what they were harassing Whedon over. Some crazy they follow told them to attack him because he was a misogynistic pig, and they followed suit.
The Natasha complaint seem to rise from Whedon having Black Widow kidnapped by Ultron, thus “damselling” her. While it’s perfectly OK for Tony Stark to be kidnapped in just about every Iron Man movie, Cap to be captured by Hydra in Captain America, and Hawkeye to be mind-controlled in the first Avengers, figuring out a way to explain Natasha’s absence due to her real-life pregnancy immediately made Whedon a misogynist. The Black Widow kidnapping was NOT in the original script, but when Johansson became pregnant they had to modify the story slightly to explain why she disappeared for a chunk of the movie. But try to explain that to these people and you get dogpiled with harassment.”
People. Stop running your damn pieholes. The one thing that pisses me off more than anything is ignorance.
Call me ignorant for expressing an opinion and agreeing with this article. I don’t care. You have the right to your own opinion, I have the right to mine, which is: you’re all reading way too much into a damn movie, when a movie’s sole purpose is to entertain. ENTERTAIN. Not educate. If you want to be educated go watch a damn documentary.
