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The Captain Would Be Proud!

San Jose City Councilman Lan Diep sworn into office

Occupy protester Andy Yung Wai-yib 

Vishavjit Singh the Sikh Captain America and Falcon Cap 

Stephen Colbert with the shield given to him after the ‘death’ of Cap in the comics

Cap sign at the Women’s March on Washington

DAPL protester with Cap Shield

Vet protesting Republican shut down of government in US dressed as Cap

 In real life Steve Rogers was created by two young Jewish men who had Cap punch Hitler in the face on the cover of Cap’s first comic book when the US didn’t want to enter the War.  That’s a political statement of intent that rings true today.

Me:

wanda & pietro: functional siblings

A recently published study by John Pachankis and Mark Hatzenbuehler has substantiated what’s called the “Best Little Girl in the World” hypothesis, first put forward in 1973 in a book by Andrew Tobias, then writing under a pseudonym. It’s the idea that young, closeted women deflect attention from their sexuality by investing in recognized markers of success: good grades, athletic achievement, elite employment and so on. Overcompensating in competitive arenas affords these women a sense of self-worth that their concealment diminishes.

…Deriving self-worth from achievement-related domains, like Ivy League admissions, is a common strategy among closeted women seeking to maintain self-esteem while hiding their stigma. The strategy is an effort to compensate for romantic isolation and countless suppressed enthusiasms. And it requires time-consuming study and practice, which conveniently provide an excuse for not dating.

Best of all, it distracts: “What love life? Look at my report card!”

…But the study does show that the longer a young woman conceals her sexual orientation, the more heavily she invests in external measures of success, potentially leading to undue stress and social isolation