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minoanmissWarning: you may disagree with me. A lot.
John Walker is who Tony Stark's fandom thinks Steve Rogers was. By which I mean -- anyone who doesn't know that Steve Rogers is actually a tiny disabled guy wearing a non-removable muscle suit doesn't actually know Steve Rogers, and I think people whose characterization of Tony Stark is that he's a "female-coded" character and that Steve and Bucky beating him up at the end of Civil War was a rape (a very popular piece of meta in MCU fandom, shows up on my dash every few months, I should go find a link) don't know Steve Rogers. They think he's that big muscular guy all the way down, who doesn't understand the restrictions that should be placed on power, and that's who John Walker actually is.
Marie Kondo, or at least the flanderization of her created by many of her fans, appeals to a certain kind of liberal anti-intellectualism. "People who own books are elitist and bourgeois and racist for doing so and you don't have to listen to them, you can freely despise them. Your ignorance is equal to their knowledge." She didn't actually say that and yet so many people basically used her as support for saying so that I can never see her name and not hear "no one needs that many books" echoing in the back of my head. I still want to find certain people and ask them if after a year of lockdown they still believe that.
Also Sam Wilson and Rhodey are really not interchangeable characters in many many ways. But that's enough grumping for now.
(And underlying all of these, I so wish people could 1) cut tag and 2) tag. Trying to block content doesn't work if people refuse to do those.)
ETA: I felt bad about citing an essay I hadn't linked to. Here's the Fanlore Link: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tony_Stark_as_the_most_female-coded_superhero
and a rebuttal: https://thehollowprince.tumblr.com/post/179816067919/tony-stark-is-not-coded-as-a-woman-as-a-poc-or
andsovay's essay on who Steve Rogers is as presented in his first movie: https://sovay.dreamwidth.org/495958.html
John Walker is who Tony Stark's fandom thinks Steve Rogers was. By which I mean -- anyone who doesn't know that Steve Rogers is actually a tiny disabled guy wearing a non-removable muscle suit doesn't actually know Steve Rogers, and I think people whose characterization of Tony Stark is that he's a "female-coded" character and that Steve and Bucky beating him up at the end of Civil War was a rape (a very popular piece of meta in MCU fandom, shows up on my dash every few months, I should go find a link) don't know Steve Rogers. They think he's that big muscular guy all the way down, who doesn't understand the restrictions that should be placed on power, and that's who John Walker actually is.
Marie Kondo, or at least the flanderization of her created by many of her fans, appeals to a certain kind of liberal anti-intellectualism. "People who own books are elitist and bourgeois and racist for doing so and you don't have to listen to them, you can freely despise them. Your ignorance is equal to their knowledge." She didn't actually say that and yet so many people basically used her as support for saying so that I can never see her name and not hear "no one needs that many books" echoing in the back of my head. I still want to find certain people and ask them if after a year of lockdown they still believe that.
Also Sam Wilson and Rhodey are really not interchangeable characters in many many ways. But that's enough grumping for now.
(And underlying all of these, I so wish people could 1) cut tag and 2) tag. Trying to block content doesn't work if people refuse to do those.)
ETA: I felt bad about citing an essay I hadn't linked to. Here's the Fanlore Link: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tony_Stark_as_the_most_female-coded_superhero
and a rebuttal: https://thehollowprince.tumblr.com/post/179816067919/tony-stark-is-not-coded-as-a-woman-as-a-poc-or
and
sovay's essay on who Steve Rogers is as presented in his first movie: https://sovay.dreamwidth.org/495958.html
Re: whew. that got long
Date: 2021-03-28 10:12 pm (UTC)