the reason why some of us fall in love with fictional characters is because we learn every little aspect of them. we learn about them inside and out; their personalities, their little quirks and habits, their thoughts, their past, and their deepest darkest secrets. we find traits in them that remind us, of us, and those we love in the real world.
some of us turn to these characters for comfort. it might not be direct comfort, but it does help. personally, i find comfort in my favorite characters from watching them growing and overcoming their hardships. oddly enough, it gives me the motivation and faith that iâll overcome mine.
whether we come to find love for a character from an anime, manga, movie, book, video game, cartoon show, or a real show, we learn so much about them that they feel real to us.
âwhy canât female heroes kick arse in heelsâ because itâs not practical and will literally snap your damn ankle you can scream weaponised femininity all you want but first off, you need to admit that theyâre not an almighty symbol of empowerment, and secondly that if you do a job with a lot of physical activity in heels youâre risking your own safety. all these women fighting in heels on tv are going to end up seriously injuring themselves.Â
weaponised femininity is a concept made up in an attempt to get us to embrace the industries created to hold us back/profit from our insecurities so that we can continue to fit into the male expectation of what a woman should be and not question why we are forced to spend thousands on our appearance every year
just a small anecdote. I had a friend who worked in theater; she was the stage manager and an actress came to her in tears one day because the director absolutely refused to let her do a choreographed fight scene in less than 3 inch heels because âtheyâre platforms so youâll be okay.â My friend, who is a womanâs size 10, brought her own heels in the next day and DEMANDED the director put them on and try the choreography before the actress did it. He finally agreed to change it, without putting the heels on.
so like I know you might think of âall those women on tv fighting in heelsâ as fictional woman who WOULD hurt themselves in real life, but its fiction so its okayâŚexcept those women are portrayed by real actresses who are actually fighting in actual heels, being directed by dudes who have never worn a pair of heels in their lives, alongside men who arenât expected to constantly wear things that make their stunts 2x more dangerous than they have to be. Just a thought.
Men take âletâs see feminine women being badassâ to mean âletâs see women impractically focused on their appearance in combat situations.â
Thatâs why I loved Black Panther even more Nakia took off her heels and used them as weapons and was running and driving around barefoot in that one scene
A number of stuntwomen have spoken out about getting injured on sets because the character is wearing heels and skimpy clothing that provide no protection or padding. It literally harms rl women.
The only way I wanna see a women fight with heels is if she takes them off and fights with them a la Mulan/Nakia style.
sorry i canât hear the noise of male entitlement over the sound of Evangeline Lilly and every other woman sighing in frustration
They photoshopped the heels onto wonder woman. Not even Gal Gadot could fight in them, but it was so important to The Look⢠that they frame by frame added them. Gal wore flats to the red carpet in protest.
Wonder Woman is an Amazonian. She shouldnât be wearing heels in the first place
Just to clarify why I get so pissed off at Gagnarok (and specifically its director), itâs because every time someone (specifically the director) tries to dismiss Lokiâs trauma and abuse, tries to solve it disgustingly easily (the âI love you my sonsâ bullshit), or tries to make it out like he deserves it somehow (usually by making Loki a one-dimensional caricature of himself), all I hear is my parents laughing at me whenever I try to tell them that I am hurt, that what they have done to me in the past has traumatized me, whenever I try to show any sort of negative emotional reaction to them, or when I just get so overwhelmed I start crying and their first instinct is so laugh and say, âWhat the hell is wrong with you?â
Loki was my go-to safe haven, the person (fictional character or not) that I would escape to in my mind to deal with all of that shit in this world.
Then this prick goes and does the exact same thing to him.
Fuck I want to punch something. Or set something on fire.
Or both.
This. Ragnarok really brought home to me the notion that when you make fiction, youâre doing real things to real people. Itâs never âjust a movieâ (just the same as âsticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt meâ is bullshit). All fiction is part of our ongoing work as a society at defining our values and how we choose to treat each otherâs stories. People bring their emotions and their histories to the movie theatre to process them the same as they process them when talking to friends or a therapist. Hence, itâs a big responsibility making art. You can use it to save people and hurt people and everything in between.
oh my god yes! I too have got the âsomething is wrong with youâ/âimagined slightsâ/âI said I love you (so now there is nothing to apologise for)â/âI thought the world of youâ treatment and I have responded with a mix of âYou cast me into the abyssâ and other Loki-type grief and raging⌠there was a moment when I tried to believe Gagnarok Loki was happierâŚbut he was stripped of dignity and humiliated and I felt it personally⌠and it upset me even more that not even in fiction can there be closure⌠and Loki is a character I somehow really relate to⌠I did an art therapy meditation thingy on this issue after talking about this with friends who feel the same âŚđŚâŚ
Yes to everything on here, so perfectly and beautifully said.
are you loki, god of knives? đĄđ 
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