Figuring It All Out: My Genderfluid Life

actually it’s ESPECIALLY heinous to make steve “created by jews both in comics and out” “my first appearance was punching hitler” rogers a fascist . need i fucking remind you the mans origin story is literally a direct allegory for the creation of golems, creatures made to PROTECT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. NEED I REMIND YOU THAT HE WAS ANTIFASCIST FROM THE START. i don’t even LIKE steve i think he’s boring but it’s SO INFURIATING to see the CONSTANT warping and demonization of characters created by jews and influenced by jewish values and ideas.

if you have ever written steve “my costume is modeled after depictions of a golem” rogers as an Aryan Fascist you owe me, personally, $20. this includes all comic writers and all comic fans.

Steve Rogers (and thus Captain America) is not a celebration of America's collaboration with and embrasure of White supremacy, but a critique of it.

Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (both Jewish) received death threats for setting Cap against Hitler, and Captain America is an exicit condemnation of America's fascination with Hitler (who based a lot of his policies on American policies and was at least for the early part of the war, generally considered to be a-ok in the average white American's book.)

X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.

Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.

Captain America literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.

The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.

The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.

Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.

Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.

Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.

Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.

The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.

If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.

If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.

Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.

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Kenny Boyle - Actor and Playwright

07 June 2020

I’m a Black man carrying the stars and stripes. What don’t I understand? Every time I pick this thing up, I know there are millions of people who are gonna hate me for it. Even now, here… I feel it. The stares, the judgment. And there’s nothin’ I can do to change it. Yet, I’m still here.

Mark Hamill and Chris Evans are good people.

Captain America – Infinity Comic #4 (2021)

watch me redraw a bunch of Winter Soldier scenes with Peggy instead

but make it gay

If the fascist shoe fits lmao.

No but really "Tell them they're secretly great, that the whole world is against them and if they're real men they'll fight back" is just straight up fascist ideology.

This is genuinely one of the funniest comic book panels I've seen in my life.

When you're a real life super villain and only just noticed

I’m reblogging this a touch late but still.

Fake Captain America gets his comeuppance at the hands of the real one.

Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema, Captain America and the Falcon #156.

I wanted the mug, and since if you want something done right…I went and made the mug.  If you want the mug, you can grab it off my Redbubble store.

I wanted to wait until I had a copy of the mug in hand to give my personal approval to the logo, and make sure the mug is quality.  Now that I’ve done that, go and consume!