Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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is it really a big deal
No. If I recall correctly, you're the one that suggested it was strange to have all these superheroes in the same place though. Why not spread the super-love?
This is part of why I think I prefer the DC way of doing things. Make up places, and there's less likelihood of crossover.
I'd just rather they bump into each other, as opposed to leave. I have no problem with the idea that NY is crawling with metas.
this Son of Coul shirt.
Sigh. Really, boys(1)? I get that it's an Army of Darkness riff, but when you reduce Natasha in a way the movie explicitly refused to do......yeah.
(1) by which I mean the shirt designers, not P-C or anyone else here.
The movie explicitly what? I think you're giving it a lot of credit, or taking a lot from the shirt--I'm not sure which.
Explicitly refused to reduce her to an attractive piece of meat, by deliberately undercutting the people who tried to do that(Loki and the mafioski, I mean).
And what I'm taking from the shirt is that Natasha is hanging off a male character, in a way she never did in the movie.
I had the same gut reaction, chris.
You're talking about the Natasha in the pushup bra with the zipper partway down? And her butt pushed out in a very non-gun-stance way? Because you got a different Natasha from the one in my copy.
I'm talking about the Natasha who was portrayed as a competent and essential team member. If you saw her presented only as an attractive shape in space, you definitely saw a different movie than I did.
It may not be fair to compare a single picture to a complete movie, but the image on the shirt doesn't exist in a vacuum.
She was definitely more sexualised than the men, though. That zipper was there *all* the time.
If that had been Maria, my reaction would have been totally "WTF even???" But it wasn't. It was the same piece of cheesecake Joss decided to have and eat too.
Aside from all the joke angle. I just think if it had been any of the guys it would have been ten times as funny, and if it had been the woman who had never been sexualised in the movie it would have been ten times as flat.