There were exactly four people who got to ask questions during this panel
All four were women
Three of them were dressed as Agent Carter
And they all asked questions surrounding the fact that they loved hearing the story of a strong woman like Agent Carter in a world that seems to exclusively show the stories of strong men
So if you were wondering why this show is a big deal: That’s why.
From the archives of the Smithsonian Institute, on view for the first time at the exhibiton ‘Captain Amarica – the living legend and symbol of courage’, opening on Friday, July 4, 2013.
I recently visited an exhibition on war propaganda and was inspired to make some posters not only for Cap but also for Bucky, Peggy and the rest of the Howling Commandos. Some of the artists I referenced are Edward Penfield, Norman Rockwell and Joseph C. Leyendecker. Thanks to agentbartomanoff for beta-ing the slogans.
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.
[BURSTS THROUGH THE DOOR] Alright Kids, let me tell you something about this cutie right here and why I really am excited for Agent Carter and the next season of AOS AND WHY HE IS IMPORTANT IN BOTH SERIES.
See that cutie, that cutie is Antoine Triplett who is a well respected Shield Agent. He is also grandson to a Mr. Gabe Jones
One of the Howling Commandos and a man who excelled at languages, knowing German, and French.Wonderful man, well respected you should get to know and love his character.
NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING NOT MANY PEOPLE NOW ABOUT HIM. After the war, he joined SHIELD and became one of their top agents, he went on many missions, but he still had a social life. See there was this girl a few years after the war that he had romantic relations with.
Agent Peggy Carter. Ya’ll think I’m shitting go check their comic Wikis. They where one of the first interracial couples Marvel did. Now, this is what I really think Marvel needs to do, really really really needs to do. In Agent Carter I want them, not in the first season, maybe in the second, but in the third, I’d like for their friendly relationship that they both have had since the war to slowly develop into a romantic one. I want there to be complex emotions about this, I want there to to be period typical drama in regards to their races and how Peggy is his boss, and I want this cutie in AOS
To talk about how he goes to see is grandma every chance he can when he’s in Brooklyn, listening to her war stories about the howling commandos and how his grandfather and Captain America where amazing. She then complains about how sometimes Grandpa Gabe would come home covered in soot from a mission, her vibrant brown eyes twinkling with laughter. Sometimes he has to remind her where she was at in her story, but he doesn’t mind. Not one bit.
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