Tag: mcu

fuckyeahladiesofthemcu:

omnicat:

zarabithia:

atwellling:

if you’re ready to crucify agent carter for the amount of male cast members cast in it so far but have no problem with the same thing happening in marvel’s cis dude led properties then your double standards are showing.

I’m basically rolling my eyes at the idea that a show whose primary goal is to address sexism is getting shit for showing the actual difficulty that women had post War by positioning Peggy as one of the few ladies in positions of power (yes, we saw a lot of women active in WWII in CTFA, and that was the case but guess what happened to those women’s opportunity after the war? Oh, gosh, they showed us that in Agent Carter’s short)

Obviously more women would be great but lol, this one actually has a fucking purpose and it has about the same amount of women vs men ratio as Iron Man’s shitty movies did. Funny how nobody complained then. Not even when ladies were being shamed for the same activities Tony was engaging in or being stuffed in a fridge.

And the Agent Carter show is being subjected to all sorts of double standards that this fandom never gave a fuck about during the white dude movies. “It’s very white” (yes, how do you feel about Coulson being director of shield, again?), “it’s very male,!” (yes, but you watched the Avengers, didn’t you?) And my fucking favorite. : “If she doesn’t end up with the dude I want her to end up with, I’m going to stop watching the show.”

Spoilers: She doesn’t end up with that dude. We saw the (results of ) dude she ended up with in her photo in the movie. And it was not that dude. (Edit; While I’m aware we didn’t see the dude in q uestion, and that fandom has wanked themselves into believing that those kids were not hers despite the fact they were obviously intended to be in the conversation that Steve and Peggy had … those were some white kids. Very white kids. Those were  not the result of hooking up with Gabe Jones.) 

Fandom pretends that they want female characters to thrive, but fandom is just as guilty as holding female books and media to a different standard than those led by white dudes.

I hope that Agent Carter has more ladies. I hope Gabe Jones shows up. I hope Morita shows up.

But if it doesn’t, then I hope the people calling for boycotts also boycotted the Avengers and are boycotting AOU for … you know, white washing two of the cast.

Don’t you just love how absolutely fucking desperately people will try to sabotage and undermine female characters and female representation?

“Oh, we’re getting a female lead, but it’s not the right one. BOYCOTT THE BITCH.”

“Oh, we’re getting a female lead battling sexism, but we’re not getting her in a post- -ist utopia of equality and representation. BOYCOTT THE BITCH.”

Above all else I want Agent Carter to be a realistic representation of the time, if only to show the struggles that real women of that age faced in a post war society. You know, realistic and gritty, but with super powers and spies and stuff. 

As they’re starting to film I expect we’ll get a casting announcement and details of some more female characters soon.