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Harley Quinn was literally abused and probably raped and yet her mental health is extremely fetishized. It’s not fair and extremely harmful for women who relate to that kind of pain. We are not allowed to be hurt or angry in the way male characters are otherwise it wouldn’t be desirable to the male audience these movies are catered towards.

I can name so many male characters that I relate to like Loki, Thomas Shelby, Kaz Brekker, Damon Salvatore, Lucifer, Aaron Warner, Anakin Skywalker Zuko, Jet...

The list goes on. And yet I haven’t seen a single woman that has that same pain and personality.

Part of it is that women with that kind of personality get a hell of a lot more backlash than those men do. I have a similar personality to all of them and I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been called a bitch or undesirable even by my own family.

And yet men are allowed to act the same way and they get praised and people find them attractive. (There’s nothing wrong with characters like that. Every single one I named earlier is one of my favs and I find them attractive too. My point is why can’t women have characters like that)

While captain marvel doesn’t fit this image at all, there were so many men angry that she’s so powerful. If they’re angry at a hero for being powerful there’s going to been more backlash at a villain/antihero being extremely powerful and it’s not fair. Male characters get praised for those traits and women get torn down. We need to fix this.

For ONCE I want to see a powerful, non sexualized woman in a movie that HAS pain and doesn’t handle it in a beautiful desirable way.

Let women be angry.

Let women be emotional and taken seriously.

Let women be ruthless

Let women be dark

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Amalgamated Bank

Argent

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Postmates 

The Helm

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 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.