The parts my editor cut

“Hey, none of that. You're a valued member of the team, no matter what your power level.”

“I just don't understand how you can tear open that portal to the fire dimension so easily.”

“… fire dimension?”

“Yeah. Where the fire lives. Before you summon it. For fireballs.”

I said it elsewhere but comics bros love to fellate characters like Batman or the Punisher for having no powers yet standing shoulder to shoulder with superpowered demigods through nothing but training, skill and sheer grit but then you ask them what they think about Black Widow and literally all they have to say is "I would like to put my penis in her." It doesn't matter at all that she otherwise ticks all of their boxes as far as characters they like go, she is also sexy, therefore that is her entire value.

I remember Lindsey Ellis did a genuinely great video about this regarding the treatment of Megan Fox's character in the Transformers movies.

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Try not to quote Hitler in public, dear. It’ll hurt the brand.

It went... unpleasantly viral, and still to this day it gets a dozen to a hundred comments per day, depending on how much the algorithm is pushing it. And they go basically like this:

Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of comments like this, completely non-stop. I've removed the most heinous bigotry from the screenshots here (transphobia, racism, violent misogyny, etc), but they are all the same two or three arguments, the same thought-terminating clichés, regurgitated on auto-pilot, forever.

I think it's easy to underestimate just how deeply brain-poisoned culture is by the beauty standards that are pushed on us. There is this reflexive and instant disgust response in so many people at the mere suggestion that anything other than the beauty ideal could possibly be desirable. And it is disgust, because nothing else can produce such amounts of venom and moral judgment so fast.

The women that these people are all so offended by look like this, by the way:

From the photo collection Athlete by Howard Schatz, 2002

I thought was making a mild, inoffensive, milquetoast suggestion in my video. I wrote it thinking "okay, what's the broadest, most mainstream acceptable, gentlest, most non-controversial version of this argument I can make?"

promises 💘