More than a li’l frustrating btw seeing the Jewish erasure that I’ve been seeing with Stan Lee in the wake of his death
like it’s always been a thing
but his name was originally Stanley Lieber
and as a medium comics were built by angry Jewish kids more than anyone else and in the current environment it’s important to keep reminding people of that
stop calling him an old white guy
Saw a tag on this like “well he WAS still a white guy but he was a Jewish white guy” and I need you all to understand that being ethnically Jewish and looking European descent means a person is effectively white-passing, not white.
This isn’t going to change until we don’t have even fringe antisemitism around and it’s not going to change when there’s still people in the world like my bigoted aunt being nasty towards people she THINKS are Jewish.
Stop calling Stan Lee an old white guy.
Just got a dumbass anon trying to explain to me why it doesn’t matter that people are erasing Stan Lee’s Jewishness so let me point out that the entire reason he TOOK a pen name was so that people at the time that he did so wouldn’t ignore him for having a Jewish surname
“but AO3 *wants* writers on their platform, writers are providing a service for them, that’s how they get content.”
no, they are PROVIDING you a platform. for your content. as a service to you.
please, please, please learn how the internet works.
the companies that WANT you on the platform are the companies that are SELLING YOU TO ADVERTISERS.
*Facebook* wants you on their platform. *Tumblr* wants you on their platform. *FF.net* wants you on their platform. You are Facebook’s product. Facebook is not a service to you. It is an incentive for you to give them eyes and data to sell. And the second your eyes and data stop being profitable they will toss you under the bus.
That’s why fans made AO3. So we had a space that was ours, that wasn’t profiting off of us, so we wouldn’t get sold out.
Yep. It’s an archive, a repository, not an entertainment service.
It still shocks me how many active, participating fans – including frequent users of the site – do not understand that most important distinction.
If Jack Black doesn’t get an Oscar nom for this, it is proof that sf/action movies are being discriminated against, because he was FLAWLESS as a teenage girl, absolutely invisible behind his character, and that deserves massive recognition of his awesomeness.
(I also appreciate the writing which had both girls calling each other out on perceived issues, and both girls acknowledging the fairness of those call-outs and subsequently valuing each other as equals and becoming buds. No girl-fights here, thank you.)
This movie was far more amazing than it should have been, and I’m pretty sure that was at least 90% because the cast was so fantastic.
Not once in the entire film did I forget Jack Black was a teenage girl. It was one of the most brilliant performances I have ever seen and I still can’t believe I’m saying that about Jack Black in Jumanji II.
Is it tropey as hell? Yes.
Do they subvert some of the tropes some of the time? Heck yes.
Did they know they were going to be tropey as hell and made it the best possible versions of the tropes when they weren’t subverting them? Hell fucking yes.
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