I did not and will not read Axis but why are Alex Summers and Wasp destined to have a baby together?

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kurt-banged-her:

golden-horses-like-pears:

golden-horses-like-pears:

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Really?  I still don’t even understand why they even became a couple… Lord, Jan, why must you always be attracted to blonds that fuck things up for you?

alwaysuncomfortable answered: Because the other future time line they did. Time Traveling happen, they remember being together and having a kid. They where told they can have her again if they do it at the right time. But Janet can’t be happy ever.. cause Marvel.

Me: That sounds so unbearably rapey… So, Alex kidnapped her in order to impregnate Jan “at the right time.”  SO GROSS.  SO GROSS, MARVEL.  SO GROSS, ALEX SUMMERS.

because you don’t understand how important Alex is that he has to be abusive to women and never get called on that bullshit by people in universe and out of universe.

Let’s see he abused Lorna emotionally by treating her as his possession and now he kidnapped Janet to impregnate her.

So he’s not just abusive he’s also a Rapist! Anything else you want to make him be Marvel and also never call him out on it or portray it as a negative thing? how about he starts leading some group of Mutant hunters? or he just becomes a Serial killer? there’s so many options of what Alex can become!

How do I say this properly?

Most of the depictions of Lorna and Alex as a couple are horribly one-sided to put Alex on a pedestal and make him look good. It’s a male-centric fantasy. You have a guy, the lead, Alex, and a lot of male writers think you can’t have a tough or cool male lead unless there’s a token girlfriend around that’s completely and utterly devoted to him and his goals and interests.

The problem for Lorna is that the writers at Marvel decided to use her, rather than creating a new “token woman,” for that role simply because she was already in a love triangle with Alex and Bobby. However, Lorna was depicted as a strong, independent woman, and Marvel writers felt like they needed to overcompensate and make Lorna look worse so she would fit the “overly devoted token girlfriend” mold.

I’ve seen examples of Lorna in her early days that really fit the abuse aspect, such as Alex blowing up rocks and shouting at Lorna about both of them needing to leave the X-Men for a civilian life. But for me, one of the more subtle, recent emotional abuse examples came from the space arc.

We had Lorna, running from an anti-Apocalypse cult. That would’ve been a kickass storyline all on its own, for Lorna to take down that cult by herself and learn to control her powers again. Instead, she needed Alex to come save her, and she needed to go into space with him partly to escape that cult.

Once out there, she had no real control over her own life anymore. It was a warzone. She could die at any moment. Her travels were dependent upon wherever Alex, as leader of the Starjammers, wanted the ship to go. She’s surrounded by all these alien races and people she’s never met before. The only two familiar pieces of her life back on Earth were Rachel Summers (arguably) and her ex-boyfriend, Alex.

So of course, with no other real options, with death a possibility at any moment and with Alex as the only familiar male potential love interest for light years of distance, she hooked up with him again.

One of the most prominent elements of an abusive relationship is making the abused person dependent on the abuser. Part of THAT is cutting off all other relationships the abused person has so they have no way out. Making Lorna leave the X-Men for a civilian life with him was the first time. Getting Lorna to come with him into space was the second time.

Did Alex actually abuse her? As far as we’ve seen, he hasn’t physically abused her, but there’s definite shades of emotional abuse in how their relationship is typically presented.

This is why I’m so glad they’re not in relationship right now. I think writers need about 10 years of the two of them apart, building who they are as their own characters, before there’s any tiny bit of a chance that writers will be able to treat both characters well and write them as equals in their relationship. If they get back together, of course.

So in sum, to answer the base concern: yes, Alex does have a history that makes him susceptible to awful behavior that’s incredibly possessive and to an extent abusive of the women in his life. Just that in the past, writers didn’t realize that’s what they were writing when they wrote it.

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rosalarian:

moriarty:

women’s arguments for being against feminism are so IRONIC theyre like

i dont need feminism because i can vote, i feel safe, i get equal pay, i feel like an equal member of society

glad youre fuckin comfortable, the only reason you’re in that position is because of feminism

And just because you got yours doesn’t mean everybody else did. It’s not over when you’re comfortable while other women are still struggling for what they need.

It’s also noteworthy that throughout history, there have been women against things that were good for women. When women’s suffrage was the big issue, one of the most prominent groups against women getting the vote was led by a woman.

Hey can you please explain why you are against James Franco/the interview? I’m not a big fan of him but I feel a bit uninformed about the whole fiasco and why it’s having such a big impact.

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peppermonster:

christmasnoose:

no problem my dude!

the thing that bothers me the most about sony actually releasing the interview is that seth rogen and james franco had a HUGE opportunity at their disposal. that movie had a big name cast, and they could have done so many things with the concept of north korea. they could have made a drama or a comedy based in north korea or SOMETHING to use that platform to raise awareness about the horrors that go on in that country.

do you know that kim jong-un has brainwashed north koreans to make them think that he can read their minds (about 11 minutes into this video)? think about how terrifying that is: living under a dictator who you think can read every thought of yours, so thus any negative thoughts you may have about his regime need to be avoided immediately.

then there’s the fact that there is a massive food crisis in north korea. it’s so bad that people eat pieces of corn found in the shit of animals because they’re so hungry. one of the most visceral things i heard was that in severe cases of malnutrition, the anus actually doesn’t close and anything you eat or drink comes directly out of you. these accounts come from prison guards who witnessed it.

at any point for any reason, police in north korea can charge you with any crime they want, and take you AND your family – regardless of whether your family was even with you at the time – to political prison camps. these camps are obviously fucking terrible places to be, as demonstrated by the images drawn here by former prisoners.

there’s also the fact that people can’t leave north korea. their borders are tightly monitored with frequently rotating guards who are told to shoot anyone who tries to cross. china, who shares a border with north korea, sends back people who have fled to china from north korea. women who return to north korea pregnant are forced to carry heavy loads up and down hills until they miscarry.

so i was relieved that sony wasn’t going to release the interview because i knew it would be full of racist, frat-boy level humor (spoiler alert: it got terrible reviews and yes, it full of racist, frat-boy level humor) that makes fun of 25 million peoples’ suffering. they had an amazing opportunity to raise awareness about the devastation that exists in that country, and instead they used that platform to be racist, mimic accents and literally make butt jokes.

when north koreans are finally freed of their chains, they’re going to learn that the rest of the world thought it was hilarious how much they were tortured.

that’s why i am against the interview, james franco, seth rogen and sony.

except the movie is not about NK it’s about how fucked up America is. seriously. it disses our self-absorbed consumer driven media. it draws parallels between the atrocities in NK to the crap that happens here in America. It makes a HUGE point in the movie to say YES the people of NK are suffering. they do not joke about that part. they say it many times that the people there are terrified of the leader, that they are suffering, that the whole point of the interview was to raise awareness to the people of NK who were going to be watching it that their leader is NOT a god but just a man. you know what they do instead of kill him? they make him cry on camera, to show his oppressed people that their god leader is not all powerful all knowing and inhuman. inn the end NK is overthrown by the people rising up, and not because America did anything. We wanted to go inn there and kill him and more than once it’s brought up that America invading other places to “fix things” by killing their leaders never seems to fucking help or work. We still look like a bunch of spoiled entitled idiots, and NK is their own heroes, and the female Korean character is the hero and champions her people, rising to power to help lead a new NK.

so, i’m sorry, the movie wasn’t the best or funniest ever, but everyone fucking SJWing it here on tumblr needs to get the fuck over it. No, they weren’t going to make a drama about it because it’s fucking depressing as HELL what is happening over there. and never once in the movie do they SHOW the people suffering, not for shock value or to make fun of it. They imply the suffering, talk about it, show the lies NK is trying to put out there in their denial of their horrible living conditions, which is what is important. 

damn it. this movie doesnt make fun of NK. it makes fun of America. how hard is that for all you assholes to understand?

it was an OK movie. 

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The funny thing is that the early reviews of the movie were pretty lukewarm, not just from critics but from regular test audiences. Now after this controversy, people are hailing it as the greatest comedy of our generation.

It’s also caused a resurgence of those stupid NORTH KOREA BEST KOREA memes. That’s just annoying, though.

What makes me angry is that by mocking North Korea, the mockers are reinforcing the DPRK’s state propaganda. If you think the North Korean government is stupid or you see them as toothless cartoon villains, then you’ve already been indoctrinated by it. Hook, line, and sinker. Without getting too much into my personal life, I have close ties with people deeply involved in North Korea. I’ve befriended DPRK defectors and people who have dedicated their lives to dismantling the Kim regime.

North Korea is the only Orwellian police state in the world and it has been that way for almost 70 years. Other nations have tried to maintain a government like the DPRK’s in the modern world and failed. The USSR broke apart. Fascist Italy fell. Nazi Germany fell. Gaddafi was ousted and killed.

Yet the DPRK endures. People don’t rebel, other countries don’t invade them, and they still receive concessions from the international community even as they continue developing their nuclear program. Stupid governments can’t keep 24.9 million people drinking the Kool Aid and force exponentially more powerful countries into bargaining positions.

A large part of why North Korea endures is because they’ve carefully engineered how they want to appear to the West. Horrific things are happening there right now. Some of my friends have been sent to juvenile concentration camps where kids were beaten and raped by the guards. Camps where kids had their feet cut off for attempting to escape. Friends who saw a fresh corpse on the street every day they walked home from school, left to starve to death on the sidewalk because of the Great Famine. Friends who were forced to eat bark to survive, friends who witnessed cannibalism.

There is so much information out there about how horrible and dangerous North Korea is but the international community doesn’t receive pressure from their constituents to do anything about it because everyone views North Korea as a joke. That is a very intentional, calculated move by the DPRK government. They are fully aware of how ridiculous and empty their threats sound. Those statements are nothing but propaganda fed to the West.

B.R. Myers is one of the world’s foremost scholars of North Korea and he pointed out that North Korea is not very socialist or communist. In fact, if you read the North Korean constitution, you won’t find a single mention of socialism or communism. But they are very Confucian, and a lot of what they talk about in their constitution is aligned with Confucian principles. That also goes for their foreign policy. It’s straight out of the Art of War. To quote Sun Tzu:

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

And that’s exactly what North Korea does. They know they can’t possibly withstand a military invasion from a first world power, but at the same time, they can’t risk a policy of close contact because it would compromise the internal propaganda they minister to their citizens.

So they make ridiculous threats they can’t possibly carry out. They get angry about comedy movies. They play the role of the tiny man with a huge chip on his shoulder, and the international community responds accordingly. The unspeakable atrocities North Korea is committing against its citizens is overshadowed by the global public perceiving North Korea as a cartoon villain. And when North Korea does do something legitimately dangerous like missile tests in Japanese waters or firing upon submarines, it is without warning, provocation, grandstanding, or boasting. Nothing came of the RKS Cheonan attack because there was no hard evidence that linked it back to the DPRK. Do you think an inept government can pull that off?

This is how they control their public image. It’s how they make it clear they are not to be fucked with when they want to be taken seriously, but when they need to relieve international pressure off themselves, they start talking like Darth Vader, and the laughs and mocking that follow work to North Korea’s benefit.

Did you know they’re also heavily involved in organized crime? You probably haven’t and you’ll never hear North Korea boasting about it, even though their criminal enterprises are a legitimate threat that causes actual damage overseas. They want to divert people’s attention away from things like Room 39 so they make wild threats they cannot possibly carry out and the international media eats it up. Room 39 is a multibillion dollar criminal enterprise but we have little information about it. People struggle to accept that the DPRK can run operations like this because of the misguided belief that the DPRK is run by boneheads.

Look at what the response has been like for their threats about The Interview. The DPRK knows damn well they can’t bomb any American movie theaters. But they used their grand, puffed up threats as propaganda. And it isn’t the first time they’ve indoctrinated the West with idle threats.

What’s the response to North Korean news on any popular media website? North Korea Best Korea! ROR! You are now banned from r/pyongyang! Any discussions about the concentration camps or human rights abuses are completely drowned out by stupid memes, stupid memes which exist because North Korea presented itself as an evil empire out of a sci-fi book and the West ate it up. North Korea is already associated with vapid memes in the eyes of young westerners. Now it’ll be associated with a slightly above average comedy movie and hammy threats, playing right into the belief that North Korea like a real-life version of Mordor or the Galactic Empire.

When you hear about the Galactic Empire killing trillions of people in Star Wars, you don’t feel anything because it’s exaggerated fiction. On a subconscious level, it’s easy to feel ambivalent towards millions of people being tortured, raped, and starved on a daily basis when you view the oppressing power in the same level of ridiculousness as Darth Vader.

But Kim Jong Un is not Emperor Palpatine. The Workers’ Party are not Sith Lords. They are completely sane, flesh-and-blood men and women no different from me or you who torture and imprison regular people.

Real people. People who are fathers, daughters, uncles, friends. Imagine if your family lived in a country where one misstep you make could land you and your children in the gulag. If you have daughters, you can expect them to be gang raped by guards. You can expect them to have forced abortions for carrying mixed children. If you have a relative that has special needs, expect them to be executed for polluting the gene pool.

When you step back and start deprogramming yourself from the media conditioning that North Korea has been feeding you, it’s not so easy to be so flippant about North Korea, is it? Suddenly it becomes as disturbing as joking about the deaths of Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, or creating memes out of the two NYPD officers who were murdered in cold blood simply for being in uniform. Picture that on a scale magnified by millions and perpetuated every single day.

So the fact that the world is congratulating itself for being so witty and edgy for mocking North Korea is what made me angry this week. I’ve seen more outrage against North Korea for bullying Sony into pulling this movie than I have when the UN released its report on North Korean concentration camps.

If the world was able to see North Korea soberly as the most brutal dictatorship in the world, it wouldn’t be such a pain in the ass convincing people to get involved. That’s harder to do now that everyone is lapping up the DPRK’s Kool Aid without realizing.

Why is this the issue Reddit wants to have protests over?

The real way to stick it to North Korea would be to start organizing mass donations to nonprofits dedicated to ending it, making their human rights abuses viral, and starting an online movement that pressure world leaders into breaking the Kim regime. That would actually scare the shit out of the DPRK.

TLDR
The Interview is out and millions are spending cash on watching it.

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touchofgrey37:

Holy shit.

Aside from House of M, I think the only time Lorna, Pietro, and Wanda have been in a comic together at the same time was that issue where they found out that they were related.

And I don’t think they’ve been in any comics all together with Erik, outside of House of M.

Lorna has never been in a comic with Billy and Tommy as something other than illusions brought to life by Wanda.

Billy and Tommy have never been in a comic with Luna.

And Luna hasn’t seen her aunt Wanda since prior to M-Day.

The sudden parental retcon for the twins is just the latest in a long line of fuckovers by Marvel.

Yep, especially been going strong on Lorna until just recently thanks to ANXF.

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calico-goddess:

The original post vs what tumblr turned it into.
It had nothing to do with body shaming and you essentially made negative comments about the original artist’s body. Please spread this. I’m tired of the artist’s original intent thrown out the window.

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