What's with the slander and unfair comparisons between Ragnarok and Black Panther? Both of these movies are MILES AHEAD of the rest of the MCU and are in, imo, Top 3 status along with Winter Soldier.
Why does one have to be "better" than the other???
Like I am completely deadass. If you lemme keep Winter Soldier, Ragnarok, Homecoming, and Black Panther (and Iron Man and The Avengers for obvious reasons) and delete the rest of the MCU, I'd be gucci lmao
You: "Ragnarok was too funny. I don't think it made any serious points like Black Panther did."
Me:
You: "Black Panther took itself way too seriously. It's not the masterpiece people think it is and didn't crack enough jokes [insert thinly-veiled racism about being too Black].
Me:
For Ragnarok, comedy is an effective way to transport commentary & it did it effectively. I didn't need the film to overtly be like "THESE WHITE ALIENS ARE DANGEROUS & PULLED SPACE IMPERALISM ON THE 9 REALMS (but really only the Dark Elves ans The Frost Giants) for me to get it.
Ragnarok is a movie about the legacies of genocide, imperialism, and colonialism/colonization. And all that is dressed up in colorful characters, a bombastic soundtrack, precise comedic timing and striking imagery.
If you ain't catch that, just watch it again 🤷🏾♀️
As for Black Panther....I stopped defending this movie because the #FFFFFF crowd remains PRESSEDT that it did as many numbers as it did and I like it when they are PRESSEDT and tbh a lot of that movie probably did go over sus cabezas blancas and IDGAF 😊!
Coogler stuck his foot in the movie. Step on a Lego if you don't like it.
Besides the “holiday” being an affront to our Indigenous siblings, it is also in line with America’s ever-present tradition of simultaneously celebrating White mediocrity and depravity and tbh, return to sender please 😐
In addition to this, if you *HAVE* to celebrate a “Christopher” today, there are others available, who aren’t directionally-challenged nincompoops.
Hi. It’s true that America’s White supremacist “education” (re: propoganda) system purposely obscures & omits all kinds of Black stories. AND it’s true that the technology/social media boom at the turn of this millenia has given us access to an unprecedented amount of information
~Both things~ can be true. Because nuance lol
So I think it’s unfair to be all like “omg stop dragging him” when all folx are really doing is telling him to open a book, Google something, or leave his bubble to learn something new. I don’t think that’s an unfair thing to ask of someone who professes to know better?
I hate how this question is a thing too (i.e misogynoir & colorism) but the older I get, the more I realize that it’s not because the asker is seeking validation (eff y’all, BW are dope), but more so because bigotry in dating is an immense time waster & who got time to waste?
Listening to Dawson yesterday remembering some things that Toni Morrison has explained about racial trauma/race-specific gaslighting, I am reminded that the most violent thing about racism is not just the actual violence but the joy & the *time* that it steals away from us.
And BW in these asking scenarios (even when it comes to BM) find ourselves asking this question because we already have 502052950204 things trying to tug at our very precious & not-infinite source of energy & we definitely do not want to & wasted time & affection to that list lol
As you are saying this, Debra, media outlets are still having a field day with male survivor Jimmy Bennett for even *daring* to come forward about being allegedly assaulted by Asia Argento.
What is with y’all and lying about the believability of male/non-women survivors? Like patriarchy doesn’t also chew them up and spit them out for being ~weak enough~ to be assaulted???? Hmm? What gives?
This ~superior victim~ thing that White women have going on is not the wave and it is precisely the thing that keeps undermining the efforts of #MeToo/#TimesUp and tbh, y’all need to let that shit go because if it that isn’t base narcissism, IDK what is.