Male writer: This female character that I’m writing has a deep dark secret.

Male writer: Something so horrible that she can’t tell a soul…

Male writer: This female character has literally the saddest back story anyone could ever imagine and no man could ever love her because of it and she cries herself to sleep every single night because she’s such a monster.

Male writer: She’s……………… infertile.

#you can say joss whedon it’s okay

“you step out that door, you’re an avenger” “if i step in and out over and over again really quickly does that mean i’m every avenger” “uh” “too late i’m gonna do it”

“so this is the door i have to walk through to be recognised as an avenger?” “yeah basically” “okay cool so… where’s the door to be recognised as the race i was supposed to be and part of the culture i was supposed to be from before joss whedon made me white and a volunteer for neo-nazi experimentation”

“so i told her that if she walked through that door, she’d be an avenger” “that’s nice clint” “thanks natasha” “which door do i have to walk through” “??? you’re already an avenger” “oh really you could have fooled me sinCE I’M NOT IN ANY OF THE FUCKING MERCH”

For people wondering where the rape joke was in Age of Ultron

(and I don’t blame you, it’s subtle, which makes its inclusion even creepier, and it’s generally good to have evidence of these things)

In the “let’s-all-try-to-lift-Mjolnir” scene, Tony’s line is changed from the trailer; in the trailer, it’s “I will be fair but firm-ly cruel”. In the movie, however, it’s “I will be re-instituting Primae Nocta”

Primae Nocta is a “medieval custom” (for which we have no actual contemporary evidence) whereby the overlord of a peasant couple would have the ‘right of the first night’ with the new wife should he so wish, being legally able to rape her on this night. (It’s the same concept as Droit de Seigneur)

The fact that the line from the trailer (which was actually a good joke) to the one from the movie (rape joke, ooc for Tony Stark, misogynist) is extremely disturbing, especially as the primae nocta joke would only be understood by a proportion of the audience - in effect, Whedon replaced a joke with one that allowed him to stealthily be misogynist, which is… quite worrying, actually.

I respect joss whedon’s right to write the equivalent of a 250,000 word 89/? chapter fic posted on ff.net with the description “EVERYONE IS OOC…DONT LIKE DONT READ!!!! I UPDATE FOR EVERY 50 REVIEWS!!! NO FLAMES OR I DELETE” but that doesn’t mean I have to accept it as canon lol

Natasha in Avengers: “Love is for children.”

Natasha in Age of Ultron: “I adore you!”

Me:

lmao @ joss “i regret calling myself a feminist because now everyone expects me not to produce sexist media” whedon (x) don’t let the door hit you on the way out

“I’ve said before, when you declare yourself politically, you destroy yourself artistically,” he said. “Because suddenly that’s the litmus test for everything you do — for example, in my case, feminism. If you don’t live up to the litmus test of feminism in this one instance, then you’re a misogynist. It circles directly back upon you.”

this jackass lmao

translation: “it turns out that if you call yourself a feminist, people expect you to actually do feminist things, and I’m disappointed because I want praise for applying a label to myself without putting in any actual effort”

The thing about it is

People are acting like everyone suddenly ganged up on Joss 

No. Fans have been giving the same criticism of his writing (esp. the way he writes women, esp. the way he writes poc or completely ignores their existence) for almost 20 years now. FANS. People who like his works!

So he’s heard this all before. This is not news to him. He didn’t stomp off of twitter in shock. 

He blocked people, made it look like oh poor him, he just can’t win with these mean radical progressives!!! and then left twitter and let shitty little fanboys act like some great injustice took place because he won’t be posting 140 character long updates anymore.

All he has had to ever do is say, “I’m sorry. I owe it to my fans to do better. I will try.” and then just try a little bit harder?? Like, that’s literally all people want.

As far as Whedon is concerned, anyone blaming feminists for driving him away from social media is not only wrong, but missing the point about the relationship between internet trolls and feminists on Twitter. [x]

Wheeds, you are not a lawyer, and you have not ever taken the bar. Shut the fuck up. 

Wheeds, you are not a feminist, and you clearly misunderstand fundamental human rights and how this whole privilege/oppression thing works. And ya know what? Its damn good you haven’t gone to law school because you flat out admitted that your portrayal was terribly un-feminist and that it has upset us and let us down. Your argument is garbage. Art and politics go hand in hand and they have for centuries. Have you seen Cap 2? That was one of the most blatantly political movies I’ve ever seen, and it was beautiful. Treating us like objects and then treating those objects like shit is not art. Refusing a feminist portrayal is misogynist. It really, really isn’t that hard. Not only did the Russo brothers blow you out of the water, so do amateur, unpaid fan fic writers. On a regular basis. The bar wasn’t that goddamn high in the first place and you still missed it. so again, see the above and shut the fuck up.

This is your daily reminder that Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are Romani Jews and the children of Holocaust survivors, and that Whedon white-washed them and had them be volunteers with Hydra, a neo-Nazi organization.

Not only Hydra volunteers: volunteers to have Hydra perform medical experiments on them to give them superpowers (powers they were simply born with in the comics). If you know anything about the history of Nazi medical experiments you should realize how deeply offensive this is.

Please signal boost this. I saw some people defending Joss over this and I just ???

Welp, Joss Whedon deleted his twitter.

JEREMY RENNER (on receiving Joss Whedon’s Age of Ultron script): “There were a lot of confusing things about it for me,” he laughed. “To think about what was happening with Romanoff and Banner, I didn’t know… a lot of stuff got lost for me.” [ x ]

SCARLETT JOHANSSON (on the changed relationship dynamic between Nat and Bruce): “I, you know, didn’t really understand… or expect… the connection that these two make with one another seemed very unlikely when I first read the script. I met with Joss, I was like, why are you putting these two together?”  MARK RUFFALO: “But I was like of course!”  SCARLETT: “Oh yeah. Of course. He sees it.” MARK: “These two should be together.” SCARLETT: “It’s kinda like the guy who was like, do you remember the first time we saw each other, like we had something. And the girl’s like, I don’t even remember you.” [ x ]

agentnatalia

yes, natasha romanoff is free to want a relationship with whomever she would choose. yes, natasha romanoff and bruce banner have an understanding on some level in that both have been forced into being something that they never wanted to be. that part has never been the subject of debate. 

we’re not displeased because natasha has chosen to pursue a relationship with bruce instead of steve/clint/bucky/whoever.

we are displeased because in order to make her the subject of a romance, joss whedon has stripped her of her best characteristics and forced her into the role of the pining damsel in distress.

we’re not displeased because we like a ship, we’re displeased because we like natasha romanoff

joss whedon’s twitter icon is literally him tipping his fedora..

whedon: *blatantly ignores what happened in catws, iron man 3 and tdw* me: *more blatantly ignores what happened in aou*

this is a nsfw (no sympathy for Whedon) blog

avenge natasha romanoff’s characterization 2k15

enjoy characters and movies for what they are and stop thinking so much into it 2k15

Be critical of the media you consume and protect the few female characters in mainstream media 2k15. Allow people to express their distaste for and disappointment in the media they consume 2k15.