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RIP to all those crushed by the oppressive forces of the woke mob 
I'm loving the representation. Korg, Valkyrie, Ms Marvel, America Chavez, lots of screentime for the rainbow gang.
And seeing people of color used as more than comic relief or token one-dimensional affirmative action hires and sidekicks is the fruit of heavy labor. Go back a little bit in Hollywood (or all media) and you only see minorities in demeaning and sometimes offensive roles, even further and they vanish into thin air. It's exciting that a new generation gets to see reflections of everyone in these stories. Even within LGBT I remember lots of backlash for Will and Grace because they were "too campy" but some of us are very campy. 
The writing was often-times terrible but it really felt more like people being uncomfortable seeing a limp wrist on TV. Fems exist and they have just as much of a right to screentime as the uber-macho "straight-acting" (so glad we retired that term) gays.
Identity politics aside, I appreciate the escape from their previous format of "team assmbles, crush bad guy, somebody falls in love." From Wandavision to Dr Strange 2 and definitely Ms Marvel there's a new template and sometimes it hits, sometimes it misses but they're digging deeper into the back of cinematic tricks and I think it's paying off. The train scene in Ms Marvel where Nani discusses the Partition and her Indian/Pakistani heritage is some of the best stuff I've seen in any genre any format ever.
And I don't care what anybody says, after watching Wanda's mental breakdown and then a horror movie the brainless humor of Love and Thunder was a nice break.
I'm loving the representation. Korg, Valkyrie, Ms Marvel, America Chavez, lots of screentime for the rainbow gang.
And seeing people of color used as more than comic relief or token one-dimensional affirmative action hires and sidekicks is the fruit of heavy labor. Go back a little bit in Hollywood (or all media) and you only see minorities in demeaning and sometimes offensive roles, even further and they vanish into thin air. It's exciting that a new generation gets to see reflections of everyone in these stories. Even within LGBT I remember lots of backlash for Will and Grace because they were "too campy" but some of us are very campy. The writing was often-times terrible but it really felt more like people being uncomfortable seeing a limp wrist on TV. Fems exist and they have just as much of a right to screentime as the uber-macho "straight-acting" (so glad we retired that term) gays. Identity politics aside, I appreciate the escape from their previous format of "team assmbles, crush bad guy, somebody falls in love." From Wandavision to Dr Strange 2 and definitely Ms Marvel there's a new template and sometimes it hits, sometimes it misses but they're digging deeper into the back of cinematic tricks and I think it's paying off. The train scene in Ms Marvel where Nani discusses the Partition and her Indian/Pakistani heritage is some of the best stuff I've seen in any genre any format ever.
And I don't care what anybody says, after watching Wanda's mental breakdown and then a horror movie the brainless humor of Love and Thunder was a nice break.
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