tienriu: jackironsides:fostertheory:captainmarvels: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | Captain
tienriu: jackironsides: fostertheory: captainmarvels: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | Captain Marvel (2019) It had been long enough since I had seen the former that I hadn’t picked up on the similarities. Even the exit from the parking lot! “But Carol’s a villlaaaaaiinnnn thoooooouuugh” You know, that scene in Captain Marvel and how some men are reacting to it? Is the first time I’ve ever seen so clearly a part of the population who are so far from the target audience that they have no clue what’s going on. Putting aside the obvious call backs to Terminator 2, what that scene was set up to be is so clearly obviously that you’d be hard pressed to find a woman who doesn’t understand exactly what type of fantasy was being expressed. That entire scene? It’s a power fantasy. It’s aimed directly at women who get often targeted by men who choose victims that they know won’t make them face consequences for their obnoxious behaviour and actions. Carol, in that scene, looks exactly like an easy target for that man, it’s why he chooses to behave that way. It’s a scenario that many, many women have had to live through - have had to smile and pretend we’re okay with through. And so Carol flipping the script on that man, forcing him down, forcing him to be as scared as WE have been… It’s such an obvious power fantasy - a very nice pandering that we only occasionally get in films. Which is why seeing it go straight above the heads of some people (men, it seems to have gone above the heads of men, lets just say that out right) is so hilarious. I guess it’s hilarious because everybody else have watched male power fantasies for so many years that even if it never related to us, we still knew what it meant and the first time these people have had to see a female power fantasy they tripped before they even get to the starting gate. I’m putting this reaction next to the “Women don’t enjoy sex” tweet and the “Captain Marvel is over powered” (doesn’t blink at Thor and his ability to literally move an entire space station or withstand the blast of a dwarf star) reactions. Like you don’t often see people self burn and show you how deeply, deeply bad they are in bed, in life and in human interactions. So when you do, you should treasure it (and avoid those people). -- source link