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lynati:
jujubiest:
jujubiest:
I think it’s important to recognize and discuss how superhero movies can function as military propoganda, but I also think it’s highly suspicious that this has suddenly become a major talking point around Marvel’s only female-led film when it’s hardly the first Marvel film this criticism applies to.
@oodlyenough your tags are too great:
Also…one of the big plot points [SPOILER ALERT!] of the movie is about not blindly trusting the military, and that they aren’t always the champions of the cause that they make themselves out to be. All the flashbacks she has to her US military training involve men being assholes to her because she’s a woman, and there’s no “oh you’re one of us now!” moment to offset that. She was a test pilot because she really wanted to fly, but we weren’t letting women be combat pilots in the 90′s, so testing new planes was all she (and Monica) had available to them. They seem more annoyed about the fact that they were facing limitations that the men weren’t than the fact that they weren’t allowed in combat specifically.I’m not sure this movie is going to do as much to inspire girls to go join the military as some people (who I guess haven’t seen the it?) think it will. In a lot of ways, it paints military service- particularly for women- in the worst light out of all of the Marvel films that reference it.
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lynati:
jujubiest:
jujubiest:
I think it’s important to recognize and discuss how superhero movies can function as military propoganda, but I also think it’s highly suspicious that this has suddenly become a major talking point around Marvel’s only female-led film when it’s hardly the first Marvel film this criticism applies to.
@oodlyenough your tags are too great:
Also…one of the big plot points [SPOILER ALERT!] of the movie is about not blindly trusting the military, and that they aren’t always the champions of the cause that they make themselves out to be. All the flashbacks she has to her US military training involve men being assholes to her because she’s a woman, and there’s no “oh you’re one of us now!” moment to offset that. She was a test pilot because she really wanted to fly, but we weren’t letting women be combat pilots in the 90′s, so testing new planes was all she (and Monica) had available to them. They seem more annoyed about the fact that they were facing limitations that the men weren’t than the fact that they weren’t allowed in combat specifically.I’m not sure this movie is going to do as much to inspire girls to go join the military as some people (who I guess haven’t seen the it?) think it will. In a lot of ways, it paints military service- particularly for women- in the worst light out of all of the Marvel films that reference it.
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