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[sour_idealist]

Dialogue from the family on X-Men: First Class:

My youngest brother: All the superhero girls in that movie were evil or turned evil, though!

This was after five minutes of gushing, but the dude is ten - if he's having that thought process at that age, I'm keeping him.

Further thoughts on the movie include that it could have been a truly incredible

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[simply_shipping]

OMG, you found a fic about that! *goes to read*

Also, now I totally want to write an AU with the whole premise you laid out with intersectionality, but I have so much on my plate already and still haven't even finished the Sophos fic and ARGH, BRAIN STOP IT.

[sour_idealist]

It's not about him getting called out exactly, but it is about that tendency exaggerated sli-ight-ly - not enough to make him out of character, just enough to make him CREEPY AS HELL when combined with the mindreading powers. I don't want to spoil it, but read the end carefully.

It's a pretty daunting prospect, I gotta admit. I've been basically staring at the screen going WHAT AM I GONNA WRITE, with several prompts open and my already-existant WIPs and basically overload.

[simply_shipping]

It did take a couple of readings to fully process it, and then reading the comments to confirm it, but yeah. Wow. Thanks so much for posting the rec. <3

Creativity overload. I'm torn between calling it the best thing ever and the worst thing ever. XD

[sour_idealist]

Yeah, I got to "game he has just won," stopped, blinked, reread the last two paragraphs, and then picked my eyeballs off the floor as they had mysteriously bugged out of my head.

Definitely the worst when it doesn't extend to the things you are supposed to be doing.

[wake_the_dragon]

I really want to debate the "all the girls were evil thing

[sour_idealist]

I actually agree with you there! The thing is that my brother is ten; he's not going to be doing an especially in-depth analysis of the various sides. I'm just plain thrilled that he's actually noticing the way the female characters are portrayed, that having all the girls end up on the side of the antagonists would ping an alarm bell with him. Especially when he's so little.

I do agree that Raven and Mystique are sympathetic and that their reasons are completely and entirely understandable; I'm honestly very much with them and love them to pieces. Still, I don't think the story treated them well.

But basically what I was trying to communicate isn't "BURN THE EVIL WITCHES," it's "Awesome, my little brother is actually picking up on problems with how women are treated in movies!" I'm sorry about not making that clearer.

[wake_the_dragon]

It's really cool that a ten year old would notice things like this when there are adults who wouldn't.

I just felt like going on a rant on my disastifaction with certain Marvel decisions and reader reactions than anyting in your post. Also, I didn't realize your younger brother was that young.

I was annoyed that the female characters were either not on Charles' side or mind-wiped (the mind-wipe still really bugs me especially as the scene right after trys to play it off comedicaly; this was a violation)

[sour_idealist]

Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with him. That said, I do entirely understand the urge to defend the characters; I do get the frustration there.

And UGH YES THE MINDWIPE THING WAS AWFUL. Jackass move there.