Beyond The Frames

this made me so angry. he looked AMAZING as Tony Stark and I hope he knows that those kids are just jealous

I know exactly how that boy is feeling. I was bullied when I was a kid, and continued to get bullied for many, many years. I was bullied for the way I looked, the way I dressed, and all the times I acted different from the norm.

After some time, tired of the way things were, I decided to just stop. I began dressing myself simpler, I started to talk less, because I thought that maybe, just maybe, they would have stopped making fun of me if I comformed. If I stood out less. I remember not buying clothes I really liked because I thought the others would find them extravagant. I even remember curling up perfectly my hair, then washing them up before going to school because I thought they were going to laugh at me. For some curled up hair.

One day I came home to school crying because I didn't like my glasses, because I thought they made me look ugly. But the truth was that I didn't think they were ugly, I thought the others would find them (and me) ugly. So, my father sat next to me, looked me in the eyes and said: "Sofia, it doesn't matter what you look like, how you dress, how you act. People are always going to find something to make fun of. So, in the end, you might as well just be yourself. People are going to criticize you the same, but at least you'll get to say, at the end of the day, that you were true to yourself, that you did what you liked, lived how you wanted. And remember: the world can be ugly, but you are not."

This is, and will always be, the most beautiful, honest and precious thing he said to me, and the best lesson I learned from him.

Because it is all true. And I just wish Evan knew it too.

And his mother is right: children really need to understand that words hurt more than punches sometimes. Parents need to acknowledge that children can learn a lot more than they think is possible from a very young age.

As an Italian, I can confirm

The Captain Marvel movie didn't do her justice: it didn't explain her motivations, the inner conflicts she's often put through in the comics, her fragile side. I think they wanted to give us a hero that was "strong and badass", that wasn't weak. But ultimately, they just bumped into another stereotype: that kindness, love, emotions make women weak. This is just not true. As the perfect example, look at Wonder Woman. She's a Goddess whose strenght is defined by her love, by her kindness. Would people say she's weak because of that?