You know you’re not the only one, right?

Also, shoutout x100000 for The Flash writers/team finding out Arrow was going to kill an iconic character and finding a way to write her into their show and keep her alive in some way, even if it was on another Earth, if what MG saying is true and they didn’t decide who died until later on.

That means the Flash team LITERALLY – because their finale scripts would already have largely been in place or, at least, they knew what they wanted to do – took it upon themselves to include her, because I H I G H L Y doubt they included her initially because Laurel has LITERALLY been on Flash once and it’s more likely she wasn’t going to be on the show than a show she guest starred for like, ten minutes tops once.

Once.

And they treated her better there than Arrow ever did.

So, yeah.

felicitysss - barryalllns

whats so irritating about this tweet is “i’ve done nothing but love & support you” hold up. nicki wasn’t coming for taylor in fact taylor’s name never came out her mouth.. nicki was bringing attention to the fact that women of color have to work twice as hard and don’t even get the recognition and by stating that she wasn’t “blaming” white women, this isn’t about taylor it’s about women of color getting what they deserve but while we’re on the subject i’ve never seen taylor come to the defense of women of color (or people of color for that matter) she was silent about ferguson i’ve never seen her tweet about mike brown or any of the other black men and women and children being brutalized and killed so who is she to tell a black woman not to speak out for women of color? black people will not be silenced to protect your white feelings “i’ve done nothing but love & support you” ??? when?? when are you gonna start supporting women of color? if she considers herself a feminist she needs to start looking out for all women not just white women

Putting down confident girls is not feminism

shaming sex workers is not feminism

“I’m not like other girls” is not feminism

slut shaming is not feminism

shaming BDSM practitioners is not feminism

misandry is not feminism

ignoring trans women’s rights is not feminism

bless everyone who actually puts the link to the video under their comic con gifsets

if people wanna be excited about Ant-Man, then far be it from me to tell them not to be, I just wish people would stop acting like they don’t know why the rest of us are mad about it.

To be honest, a lot of the people I know *don’t* actually know, and it’s taken some time to explain it to them.  Most MCU fans are casual fans and are not that deep in the fandom and know next to nothing about the comics, so they really don’t have a good grasp on why people are upset– most of them don’t even know that anyone is upset.  Last weekend, I had a very long conversation with a bunch of guys who were self-professed MCU fans and knew everything about the movies and the comic stories of some of the more prominent characters who’ve appeared in the MCU, and they had no idea who Jan even was.  By the time I finished talking to them, they were mortified and disappointed. The fact that people are troubled by Ant-Man is something that’s been kept very tightly confined to comics fans and more serious MCU fans who take the time to be more proactive in their fandom.  It’s something that still needs a *lot* of promotion and publicity– and I’d recommend everyone who IS upset keep talking about it, explicitly and in detail, with clear talking points, because that’s the best way to get the message out.  I wouldn’t just assume that people who are excited for Ant-Man have heard all the reasons– or any reason not to be.  I’ve been very surprised to discover how many people are genuinely clueless, which is why I’ve been trying to be MUCH more public about it.

#can somebody explain?  #this post rants a lot about it but i dont see the reason?  #i mean im dossapointed that its another white man but?  

Happily I’ll explain– that’s exactly what I was talking about, is that I think a lot of people (like you) know people are upset but don’t know why. The original Avengers team in the comics had five characters: Ant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and Wasp.  Four men and one woman (Wasp, AKA Janet Van Dyne).  With Ant-Man, all four original men will have their own solo movies. 

Ant-Man and Wasp were the ones who had the idea to form the Avengers, and Wasp was the one who named the team, as you can see here in Avengers #1:

 Notice who isn’t on that list? Captain America: who now has also had his own solo movie.  He joined the team a little later, in issue #4.  

You know who identified Cap when they found his frozen body?  That’s right, it was the Wasp:

Jan has, over the course of the Avengers title, been one of the most prominent team members and was the longtime leader of the Avengers team, and she’s a significant character in the Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon TV show, which is where a lot of young kids have been introduced to the Avengers.  

So right now, it’s getting very frustrating and upsetting to a lot of us that the only founding member of the Avengers who isn’t getting a solo movie is also the only woman.  Hank and Jan often worked as a team in the early days, so it even would have been okay to do an “Ant-Man and the Wasp” movie, but there’s a big problem with the fact that all the male characters, and even Cap, who wasn’t a founding member, have gotten solo movies, but the one female character is not getting one.

But it gets worse– because not only is she not getting one, but the plot of the Ant-Man movie is said to use a “tragic accident” to write Jan out of the story– many people think this isn’t a death but a story that gets her trapped in an alternate universe, something that canonically happens to her in the comics.  It doesn’t really *matter* which one it is though because this plot point not only means that a film isn’t planned for her, but that Marvel has essentially constructed a plot that will prevent Jan from *ever* getting a solo movie of her own.  

This is after Joss Whedon fought to include Jan in The Avengers and got her into the storyboards before Marvel made him remove her.  A lot of fans thought she was getting removed because she was going to get a major part in Ant-Man, but she isn’t getting one.  And it’s worse than that, because she has a very small part that, from what we can tell, precludes her ability to ever get a movie of her own.

So this isn’t really about “one more white man” movie, so much as it is a movie that is essentially preventing one of the most important female Marvel heroes from ever getting a solo movie, which is a very big deal to a lot of female fans and parents with children who are fans of Jan from the cartoon.  Which is much more upsetting than just another movie about a white man. 

So glad someone wrote this out.

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laurel fan does not equal lauriver fan