#meninists

Way too many men out there are salty little bastards who want the laws changed back to the “good old days” where women had to marry and fuck one of their no-effort loser asses if we wanted to survive. Why are they so desperate to get women “under control”? Because they’re losers.

Sexist men craving reproductive control and the “return of kings”: we all know your secret. Just admit that you have shitty game in and out of bed. You are so weak, pathetic, unimpressive and unattractive that you want the playing field to once again be graded steeply in your favor so you have a chance in hell of getting your wicks dipped. That’s like 80% of it right there. You’re such miserable losers that unless women are FORCED to marry and fuck you, no woman ever would.

If you were really “strong men” you could handle a level playing field, just as a lot of guys do with a shrug and a smile. But you can’t, so you want to drag everything back into the 1950s. 

is there any country that has been free of slavery? is there any room of men where no one seeks to create a power imbalance that favors him? how do we avoid creating a man who does not feel like he is naturally owed someone else’s freedom? is there a society where one man or a group of men hasn’t doubled over the country’s quality of life?

(to fans of Alita Battle Angel. this isnt a take down or insult to your movie. I know some people loved it and i’m sure it was well done. The point of this post is to criticize people using your fav movie as a cheap excuse to pit women against each other)

a strange sentiment seeing as there is no reason to compare the two. I can imagine sexist people who see women as outliers and thus “there can be only 1 good female lead movie” would make such a claim. Most normal people if they dont like a movie just dont watch it.

but i was curious as to why i keep seeing this considering i’ve heard no one talk about it, it kinda passed without the majority of people noticing it, and the fact that Captain Marvel is obviously one of Marvel’s best films ever due to the sheer amount of people praising it for everything including acting, humor, action, comedy and the way it handles its social issues (which ALL marvel movies have)and the sheer money its gained in money

I hadnt watched it yet so i went to other people for info and figured the “your milage may vary” section of tvtropes (the part where wiki-ers comment on aspects of the item that cant be agreed upon”

as i thought it dealt with many things i figured would put Atila low bar

“ A common criticism was that many tropes in the film have grown so omnipresent in sci-fi cinema over the past couple of decades that they no longer feel fresh. “

(my point being its ‘nothing fresh or new”)

“Critics think the film is somewhere between mediocre and okay, but viewers and especially fans of the source material so far seem to love it (on Rotten Tomatoes, the critic approval is 60%, while for audiences it's 93%). It's been lauded by the anime community as the first live-action Hollywood anime adaptationnote to not suck. “

I.e. Its good...for an anime adaption

So why then are people trying to weaponize Alita against Captain Marvel which based on its general reception is an objectively better movie?

“Fandom Rivalry: With Captain Marvel, another sci-fi Feminist Fantasy movie set to release one month from Alita's release. While some simply see Alita as the more visually-interesting and original movie, there's a strange case of this trope in a lot of the rivalry is less down to the Alita fandom criticizing Captain Marvel and more a group of toward certain social inclinations using Alita as an outlet to attack Captain Marvel. Following Brie Larson making certain statements that were interpreted as being political, Captain Marvel came under fire from the latter group drumming up support for the Alita at the expense of the Marvel film as a way of making a statement against Disney... Which anyone familiar with the corporate side of things can tell you would be effectively pointless, considering that Disney is set to purchase Fox shortly after Captain Marvel is released, and supporting either film will be to the benefit of the same corporate body post-acquisition. Conversely, a number of Captain Marvel fans who are mindful of the latter group have actually told others to support Alita to support the creation of more female-led films.“

See Atila is the pet project of an overblown male director (the guy who made avatar) meanwhile the most important person in captain marvel wants more diversity which white men (and POC and white women who’ve been brainwashed by their ways) find to be antethetical to their existence “ if other people have stuff then we dont rule the world” mentality.

Alita has a stock super evil villain, while CM’s villain is a complex character who used his personal relationship to manipulate the hero and take advantage of her (see the prevalence of “nice guy” and “hookup artist” in male culture)

Alita has an anime waifu with unnatural features despite the ‘realism’ of the movie. while one of hte first things captain marvel was criticized for was her costume didnt hug her ass enough

There is nothing wrong with romantic stories, there is nothing wrong with women heroes whos story revolves around a man, nothing wrong with anime adaptions and nothing wrong with women lead films directed by a man