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All-New X-Men #9 (2016)

Vision #7 (2016)

If there’s one thing that American audiences hate, it’s being told that our art is bowing to the demands of foreigners/censors.  But this way, the way that Cargill is spinning it, you say no, Marvel is not bowing to the Communist Party of China, they’re not compromising art to make money, no, they’re standing up to whiny social justice warriors on the internet.  They’re trying to be inclusive of Chinese feelings.  That sounds much better.

Ugh, and the WAY they try to spin the China thing too.  This is the worst paragraph, I’m just gonna c/p it in all its rageworthy filth:

Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko as part of Doctor Strange’s origin story in Strange Tales #110 in 1963, the Ancient One seen there is, as the screenwriter describes it, as “a racist stereotype who comes from a region of the world that is in [a] very weird political place. He originates from Tibet, so if you acknowledge that Tibet is a place and that he’s Tibetan, you risk alienating one billion people who think that that’s bullshit and risk the Chinese government going, ‘Hey, you know one of the biggest film-watching countries in the world? We’re not going to show your movie because you decided to get political.’”

First off, white washing a character is not a great improvement on a racist stereotype, like at all.  But he went there for the sympathy vote, invoking the story’s shitty racist origins as reason why him making a change is good.  And that’s a fair point: the character should change (not necessarily lose his ethnic and national identity altogether, just you know, get written less racist).

He justifies changing the ethnic identity of this character because, he says, keeping the Tibetan storyline would be “alienating one billion people who think that [Tibetan independence is] bullshit.”  Alienating the maybe six million TIBETAN people isn’t the problem.  What the screenwriter says is, “one billion people who think that that’s bullshit.”  Much more digestible.  Also mathematically one billion is more than six million and in ticket sales.

Well.

Even when Cargill calls China “one of the biggest film-watching countries in the world" and talks about the (purely financial) fear of not getting a movie released there, it’s still part of the sympathy ploy.  See?  He just wants to make money.  What could be more understandable, more American?

THEN, he constructs this hypothetical where the Chinese government bans his film saying he MADE it political.  Not China.  China’s censorship laws didn’t make this political.  China’s occupation of Tibet did not make this political.  Whiny people on the internet made this political by insisting the Ancient One be Tibetan.  Cargill was just working to make a fun movie out of a comic book, and as we all know, comic books are never political in origin (here is a picture of Captain America punching Hitler because you know you were thinking of it).  Dr. Strange has, by Cargill’s logic, never been political.  Dr. Strange totally didn’t travel back in time to meet one of America’s Founding Fathers on the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  No, according to Cargill’s logic, the story was never political in the first place.  So if the story were never political, then writing a Tibetan character out of existence (to appease an occupying government) is NOT actually eviscerating the story’s political backbone.  Whew, glad we cleared that up!

Cargill attempts to justify the white-washing by saying if the character can’t be Tibetan, it wouldn’t be ok for the character to be any other sort of Asian ethnicity, because that would be racist against Asians.  So instead of dropping the character entirely, or writing around the censors (a thought which apparently never occurred to anyone in this process), he was FORCED to make the character white, ok?  To appease everyone, ok?  His art suffered because people are mean.

The gayest dinosaur to ever live is the black swan (Cygnus altratus).  An estimated 25% of male black swans are homosexual or bisexual, forming pair bonds with other males and stealing the eggs of females to raise as their own.  This is the highest rate of homosexuality among any known dinosaur species; the mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) has a rate almost as high, with 19% of all males forming homosexual pair bonds.  (Unlike black swans, homosexual mallard ducks seem to be uninterested in raising young.)

The most famous gay dinosaurs are penguins (family Spheniscidae).  Numerous penguins in captivity have formed same-sex pair bonds, and have successfully hatched foster eggs and raised surrogate offspring.  Homosexual behavior among penguins has also been reported in the wild.

Homosexuality is very common in the animal kingdom - perhaps even more than we currently realize, thanks to the various stigmas that discourage its study.  Petter Bøckman, a scientist at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, has said: “No species has been found in which homosexual behavior has not been shown to exist, with the exception of species that never have sex at all.”  As a result, it seems likely that most, if not all, dinosaur species engaged in homosexual activity of some variety or another.

He said “I love the movie as much as someone who wrote 8 drafts of a movie before being fired from his own creation could possibly be.”

I think that people forget that condoms protect you from more than just pregnancy.

It’s called post exposure prophylaxis.

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/prophylaxis/en/

If you’ve had unprotected sex and are afraid of possibly being at risk for HIV, please go to the emergency room and ask about POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS.

http://men.prepfacts.org/the-questions/