Diamonds & Plexiglass
I am full of Rage and Love.
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Anonymous asked: Gail, everybody knows that the skrongest superhero is Hulk. Hulk skrongest there is.
Look. Hulk is skrong. I’m not arguing that he’s not skrong.
But Superman is EXTRA-skrong. I say Superman is the skrongest.
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Captain America and Wonder Woman kiss by Wolfe Hanson
Murderous insanity can infect any community, and maybe that leads people to call these senseless acts of random violence. But of course they are neither senseless nor random, and the vast majority of such incidents here involve white men. Racism holds a terrible logic, for a concept with no grounding whatsoever in science or morality, yet too many white people don’t see any patterns.
White men from upper middle-class backgrounds expect to be both welcomed and heard wherever they go. When that sense of entitlement gets frustrated, as it can for a host of complex psychological reasons, it is those same hyper-privileged men who are the most likely to react with violent, rage-filled indignation. For white male murderers from “nice” families, the fact that they chose public spaces like schools, university campuses, or movie theaters as their targets suggests that they saw these places as legitimately theirs.
For the short time we were there, just behind the black swarm of locust cops who descended on two girls they took into custody, with their night sticks and their cartoonishly large rubber bullet rifles, their precious helmets and bullet proof vests to protect them all from some unarmed young people
Behind the “journalists” (men with big fancy cameras, where’s the footage?)
Was the line of border patrol agents with huge guns that had gotten out of their armored vans.
Pardon my crappy graphics skills, but this is what yesterday’s announcement looked like to me. (I’m still going to watch and squee over the movies, but really, Marvel.)
#welp
I HATE WHEN Y’ALL ARE RIGHT
no amount of butts can make up for zero POCs in these movies tbh
Fuck off with political correct racial placement. Isn’t it enough that they changed the race of both Nick Fury and Heimdall to please the whining racism card throwing idiots?
Seriously. A BLACK NORSE GOD. I still can’t get over how absolutely ridiculous that is. We didn’t see Africans in Scandinavia before like, 1900s, but our Gods were of course a healthy/representative mix of all races, sexes and sexual observances.
Fuck all that crap. If the comic says “white”, the guy is white. If the comic says “African/indian homosexual”, the guy is an african/indian homosexual. Don’t change the fucking source, and don’t whine about it.
It’s just like when people cried about no black people in Lord of the Rings - it’s just fucking idiotic. RESPECT THE FUCKING SOURCE MATERIAL.So, I suppose the 1900s was when the Scandinavians finally got over their overwhelming fear of water and started exploring the world beyond their shores?
“Africans IN Scandinavia”. As in, people of other ethnic origins generally moving to, and living in, a Scandinavian country. And no, that didn’t happen until very recently.
Obviously the Vikings saw people of other ethnicities, but it’s extremely far-fetched to assume the Vikings would have a god of African ethnicity, no matter how the hell you twist it.Ugh, and how about you suck my fictional cock “thunderztorm”? I’ve gotten bored with internet fighting so I don’t usually engage in these types of threads because MY GOD, you’re just too easy a mark, sparky. Especially since I’m into comics and I have a film degree. What’s up.
No one is saying Thor shouldn’t be white.
That’s not the point.
The point is that these films are overwhelmingly white and they are scraping the bottom of the barrel to make films including Ant-Man (who beat his wife) rather than oh, say, one of the prominent or popular PoC superheroes like idk BLACK PANTHER
The point is that a white woman-beating dumb ass “hero” is still worth more than a PoC hero to Hollywood
Shut the fuck up, nerd. You dinks get unreasonably upset whenever someone points a critical lens towards any vestigial nostalgic geekery you cling to.
Amen, Metals! Where is Black Panther?
Aside from Poc, Hollywood is afraid of women. Where is the Captain Marvel/Ms. Marvel/Carol Danvers Film?! Black Widow? Will Ant-Man even include Wasp?
And, while we’re at it, DC… WHERE THE FUCK IS WONDER WOMAN ALREADY? It’s been a decade since Buffy Summers and Xena were on television. Months since The Hunger Games. Where are our women superheroes?
Where are our WoC? Vixen? Hello, Gina Torres.
(via handaxe)
Scenes from the ‘Million Hoodie March’ for Trayvon Martin
The family of Trayvon Martin joined thousands of demonstrators, who teamed up with Occupy Wall Street, to march across New York City last night to protest the shooting death of the Florida teenager. The “Million Hoodie March,” as it was dubbed, was organized to show support for the Martin family and call for the arrest of the George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Martin last month, but has not been charged after claiming self-defense. Martin’s parents spoke to crowd to thank them for their support and continue to push for chages to be filed against Zimmerman. Martin’s mother Sabrina Fulton told the gathered protesters that “My son is your son.”
After the formal demonstration ended, the protest — buoyed in part by the Occupy Wall Street supporters angry over recent clashes with the NYPD — evolved into a general anti-police rally. Much of the anger surrounding the Martin case has shifted from the shooter to the Sanford, Florida, police department that seems to have let him off the hook.
The protesters marched from Union Square to Times Square and back, where they encountered a massive police prescence, with lines of NYPD officers and barricades blocking off most of the park. Despite the ominous and aggresives stances from both the police and the protesters, the night ended calmly with no major confrontations.
See more. [Images: AP, Reuters, Meg Robertson]
(via npr)
“My son did not deserve to die,” the teenager’s father, Tracy Martin, said after thanking the crowd.
To All:
I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the…
