mcbexx posted:

Which begs the question, is it incest if you get involved with your sister from another time line?

I'll show myself out.

ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:

While the trend has been adopted by weirdos as proof of white genocide, denying it exists at all is a good way to make people think you're deliberately obfuscating.

More interestingly is that classic redhead characters were often mere sidekicks (Jimmy Olsen, Wally West) or coded as exotic/hotheaded/rebellious (Starfire, Little Mermaid, Little Orphan Annie). Casting Black sidekicks offers easy representation points without doing much, and those latter tropes are now being applied to Black people for some reason.

XboxPants posted:

Isn't part of the reason that redheads (and blondes, for that matter) are coded as childlike because those colors do actually have a stronger presence in young children, and often they fade to less intense, browner shades as people age?

It's not fair to the Karen Gillans of the world who have bright rear end red hair as an adult, but I don't think it's malicious to give young children like Little Orphan Annie some bright red hair as a shorthand to remind us that they are young.

And if we really wanna get into a fun discussion, we can talk about why retention of youthful traits in adults, like Black Widow's red hair, is also seen as "sexy"!

XboxPants posted:

Isn't part of the reason that redheads (and blondes, for that matter) are coded as childlike because those colors do actually have a stronger presence in young children, and often they fade to less intense, browner shades as people age?

It's not fair to the Karen Gillans of the world who have bright rear end red hair as an adult, but I don't think it's malicious to give young children like Little Orphan Annie some bright red hair as a shorthand to remind us that they are young.

And if we really wanna get into a fun discussion, we can talk about why retention of youthful traits in adults, like Black Widow's red hair, is also seen as "sexy"!

ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:

Childlike! Yes, absolutely. The goofy and sexless Black male has become a staple of DisneyCIA movies: John Boyega’s Finn and Anthony Mackey’s Captain Falcon with the precocious and quippy Black female (Letitia Wright’s pre-cancellation Shuri for example) fulfilling a mirror role. Who is the real audience for these? The 90% white audiences which need to be pandered and flattered with a non-threatening, apolitical, trademarked and ready to serve “Blackness”.

This is part of a larger cultural project stretching back to Bill Gates’s genocidal efforts in Africa and Bill Clinton’s 1994 Welfare Reform.

Azhais posted:

Much like the infinity stones, inbreeding only works within the same universe

AngryBooch posted:

I know you're a weirdo and this kind of posting is your gimmick and that the MCU is largely devoid of sex but Sam Wilson's first scene in Winter Soldier ends by Natasha and Him eye-loving each other. Whether you want to now make the criticism that this was because the Directors were worried that some people would think Sam and Steve were gay is up to you.

Rufio posted:

Sometimes I forget how bad this thread gets between shows

ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:

Consider that Black men being an object of physical admiration while never actually engaging in the messy, dirty business of actual romance or sex is better propaganda than pretending they’re ugly. For more examples of this compare the regal, attractive, chaste T’Challa with the sexually desirable, violent, angry, ethnically ambiguous girlfriend-murdering Killmonger.

Rufio posted:

Sometimes I forget how bad this thread gets between shows

twistedmentat posted:

Friend of mine painted this


A Racoon Loki would be unstoppable.

XboxPants posted:

And if we really wanna get into a fun discussion, we can talk about why retention of youthful traits in adults, like Black Widow's red hair, is also seen as "sexy"!

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

This might be the wrong place to ask(maybe should be in comics sub forum) but isn’t the Loki storyline basically Jon Hickman’s Fantastic Four run?

Protagonist finds a way into a new universe where everyone’s fighting a multiversal war, he’s just one of many, adventures ensue, at the end everything’s changed irreversibly

I read that ages ago (2000’s) but if you remove the family it sounds familiar

Except with Loki instead of Mr Fantastic

Killer robot posted:

That's simple too! But also awkward. Skin and hair color are sex-linked. Among those of European ancestry for example, women are roughly twice as likely to have blonde or red hair. In darker populations, women on average have a visibly lighter skintone. So even before you get into cultural entanglements like the leisure class getting less sun, white people colonizing most of the world, and massive advertising campaigns for cosmetics that lighten skin or hair, lots of cultures were primed to see light hair/skin as "feminine."

XboxPants posted:

The family aspect is the same, too! The protagonist is the only version of himself who is able to fight against and overcome his negative predilections, redeemed by his unusually deep love for his family.

I never knew that! Cool to learn something new.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The gene for red-headedness is also linked to a bunch of other seemingly random traits. It's a very weird genetic anomaly.


- Red-heads are resistant to anesthesia and require at least 25% more to get knocked out for the same length of time as someone without red hair.

Lid posted:

Finally watched Loki and reading takes after the fact i feel like an outlier as Sylvie was right in by creating a permanent timeline all reality was deterministic and thus there was no free will for eternity. This i see is the minority view and instead that people turned into misohnysts over how Sylvie betrayed Loki or something.

Not taken that a meta narrative was Loki's pre character development plan was to take over the Time Keepers and his last option and choice was his best idea was to... take over the Time Keepers.

Ah well here comes Kang finally.

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

The authoritarian gene vs the libertarian view

twistedmentat posted:

Friend of mine painted this


A Racoon Loki would be unstoppable.

Everyone posted:

Isn't that pretty much already who Rocket is?

Technowolf posted:

MCU TV: CIVIL WAR (OVER RED HAIR)

Lampsacus posted:

Was that really the last episode of the season???? It feels like a penultimate episode!!! But wikipedia says only 6 episodes???

Jet Jaguar posted:

There's a hidden, fourth episode they filmed in secret at the same time that will rectify everything, Sherlock and John finally make out.

twistedmentat posted:

That was the craziest poo poo. People invested so much into that stupid show and especially their head canon and when the writers were just bad at making good tv, they refused to believe it and created a conspiracy around it no actually being good.

Also it was heavily run by straight housewives who fetishized man on man relationships?

Lampsacus posted:

Was that really the last episode of the season???? It feels like a penultimate episode!!! But wikipedia says only 6 episodes???

Technowolf posted:

MCU TV: CIVIL WAR (OVER RED HAIR)

apatheticman posted:

That's certainly a face you could draw.

Open Source Idiom posted:

Oh god, I remember all of that. "Apple Tree Yard" can't be the same of a real show!

It was textbook bargaining.

Shageletic posted: