Edge & Christian posted:

Is there a history of Stan Lee saying this or are you basing this on how he wrote Reed Richards five or six decades ago? Or should I say how Jack Kirby wrote Reed Richards and then noted dirtbag Stan Lee took credit for Jack Kirby's sexual violence and misogyny?

Edge & Christian posted:

Not speaking to the credibility of the accusations against Stan Lee in 2017, but "being involved with the publication of work featuring a character was sexist several decades ago" is a weird Exhibit A for certitude that he is probably a sex criminal.

Guy Goodbody posted:

The Olympics became lame the year they started clearing and securing the marathon course so the runnners didn't have to dodge traffic and angry stray dogs anymore.

Aphrodite posted:

Imagine the steroid testing savings alone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics posted:

Thomas Hicks (a Briton running for the United States) was the first to cross the finish-line legally, after having received from his trainers several doses of strychnine sulfate (a common rat poison, which stimulates the nervous system in small doses) mixed with brandy. He was supported by his trainers when he crossed the finish, but is still considered the winner

Edge & Christian posted:

Because I guess I need to provide a disclaimer that I do not ask this in any way to discredit or question the accounts of real life women in 2018 or diminish any real life wrongdoing, but going back to the very reasonable posting of the person who just called me a shitbag:

Did the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four have any incidents of actual physical domestic abuse? I know that Reed Richards was frequently an arrogant jerk and told Susan that wives are for kissing, not talking, but I am sure people here have read the run more recently than I have. The only time I can remember Reed Richards slapping the Invisible Woman was during John Byrne's run on the book in the 1980s.

None of this has anything to do with what appear to be credible accusations against the real person of Stan Lee. It bears no reflection on any conversation or person engaging in conversation here or anywhere else, I'm merely curious now.

Edge & Christian posted:

Is there a history of Stan Lee saying this or are you basing this on how he wrote Reed Richards five or six decades ago? Or should I say how Jack Kirby wrote Reed Richards and then noted dirtbag Stan Lee took credit for Jack Kirby's sexual violence and misogyny?

Edge & Christian posted:

So long as we agree that Jack Kirby is also probably a rapist, as are essentially everyone who has worked in the comics industry 1938-present and let's be honest, everyone who has lived.

marvel comics the untold story, ch 9 posted:

Ms. Marvel had also been conceived as a trademark strategy (and an empty gesture toward feminism), but Chris Claremont had transformed her into a carefully shaded character by dwelling on her relationships with her parents and the challenges of her career. “We’re trying to appeal to a female audience, trying to make her a hip, happening, 70s woman striking out on her own,” Claremont recalled. “We say to the artist, ‘ . . . and we need her to look sexy.’ Well, his interpretation of sexy was derived from the ’40s, so what we got was a continuous series of crotch shots.” Claremont lobbied to get his old X-Men partner Dave Cockrum on the title, and they went through several dozen costume redesigns, trying to get it just right. No one had invested so much energy into a female superhero before, and, as Cockrum observed, no one else much cared. “When I brought in the one that was ultimately approved, Stan said, ‘why didn’t you bring me this one first? This is what I’m after . . . tits and rear end.’ ”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stan-lee-names-inhumans-as-631742 posted:

Elsewhere in the same interview, Lee explains that he doesn't think that Marvel is in any rush to offer up a movie with a female lead anytime soon. "The thing is, the women like these movies as much as the guys," he said. "So we don't have to knock ourselves out finding a female."

A Strange Aeon posted:

That's definitely a better use of time--can you do multiplayer too? It'd be interesting to play split screen multiplayer over the Internet. I'm sure some indie game already does this, now that I've typed it out.

Vincent posted:

hosed up that y'all ain't doing this with a Britney song tbh

Lick! The! Whisk! posted:

Who here wants some "Divorce Anystyle"

Jordan7hm posted:

Endless Mike posted:

Sounds like Tribute were the ones that hosed up here.

Madkal posted:

And more!