What I love about Deadpool is that he’s basically the anti-fuckboy, despite the fact that so many of his fans are inexplicably fuckboys. If his characterization is actually paid attention to, then he’s like the Antichrist of fuckboys.
Even in the new movie, Wade Wilson helped a teenage girl escape her fuckboy stalker—after terrifying the crap outta that stalker—and when she hugged Wade in thanks, that was all he did. Hug her.
If Deadpool was the fuckboy many seem to think he is, he’d have copped a feel. Or propositioned her. Or tried to claim her as a reward for his heroism—even though heroes never claim rewards for heroism. That’s, like, the definition of heroism. And yet, so many male “heroes” in movies kiss the girl or get the girl as a prize.
Deadpool didn’t do that. This girl was just a kid, to him. She was a student, a lot younger than him, and she certainly wasn’t a potential conquest. He just didn’t see her that way. He didn’t immediately sexualize her just because she was female, nor did he subscribe to the creepy Hollywood standard of older men sexualizing younger women and teenagers.
And then there was Deadpool’s treatment of Negasonic, which, again, wasn’t sexualized. She was a kid. Her costume in the movie wasn’t even remotely sexualized. There was no gratuitous fan service whatsoever.
Compare this to other, similarly-aged girls in Hollywood movies, who generally have to be “conventionally” attractive or tightly-costumed or otherwise objectified. Deadpool definitely doesn’t ascribe to the “all females deserve to be objectified” school of thought.
The only woman Deadpool sleeps with in the movie is a woman his age, and they are both in love with each other. There is no weird, dysfunctional power dynamic that places her beneath him. Yeah, Deadpool uses sexual humor a heck of a lot, but he never once calls a woman a “bitch” or anything similar, nor does his humor come at the price of a woman’s dignity and personhood.
If any Deadpool “fans” who are fuckboys think that they can sexually assault women or harass them because that’s what Deadpool would do, I encourage them to look again. To really look at who Deadpool is.
And, y’know, the movie does show Deadpool getting fucked up the ass by a woman he respects. Like, genuinely fucked up the ass. With a strap-on. (At least, I assume it’s a strap-on. It’s off-screen. Or Vanessa could be trans! Hell, yeah!)
To Deadpool, sex with a woman isn’t some kind of weak-ass, compulsive, power-tripping means of subjecting her to his will. He’s happy to share power and pleasure equally. He’s happy to submit, too. He’s brave enough to submit, instead of being so cowardly as to require perceived “dominance” at all times.
Deadpool’s masculinity isn’t so fragile that it can’t take a dick. Literally and metaphorically. A woman’s dick or a man’s dick, because, hey, he’s pansexual. Canonically pansexual.
I’m just saying. All hail Deadpool the anti-fuckboy.
No. YOU DON’T GET TO DO THIS AND SLIP UNDER THE RADAR. Anyone who’s seeing this, I beg you to reblog. I want as many people to see this shit as possible.
hades isn’t a badass. hades named his three-headed-guard-of-the-underworld-dog spot. hades whispers to his flowers to make them grow. hades grows fruit. there’s no sun in the underworld.
hades isn’t a badass. stop saying this false thing
In myth, Hades’ most remarked upon traits are 1) how responsible/reliable he is, 2)how sober-minded he is, 3)how dedicated, implacable, and long-remembering he is, and 4)how boring and grim most of the other Olympians think he is to be around. Oh and notably, that if you play him a song he likes, he’ll basically give you anything you ask for(though not without conditions).
Hades is, canonically, a gigantic nerd. If they’d had trainsets, he’d have been the Olympian who collected trainsets, meticulously corrected with exacto knife and hobby-paints the errors toy-makers introduced to those trainsets, and then endlessly talked about those trainsets to anyone sat next to him at Thanksgiving Dinner 😐 When he wasn’t trying to rope them into an interminable discussion about gardening or divine law, that is 😐 😐 He’s the sort of god who frequently handed out punishment like giving someone a million-piece puzzle where every piece is shaped the same, that resets itself at the start of every day if you don’t complete it, and then he keeps the last piece on his person at all times as a secret private joke for eternity because he finds you personally distasteful(not even because he’s mad at you or hates you particularly; he just doesn’t like you as a person) 😐 😐 😐 He is. A Gigantic. Nerd.
He’s also like one of the only gods who is faithful to his wife. And he listens to her like when she asks for a soul to be released and he’s like “But honey, the rules.” And she just gives him that look and he goes “Yes dear,” and lets the soul go with the easiest freaking instructions ever in a myth. And the human still fucks it up. Not his fault Persephone, not Hades’ fault this time. Essentially, Hades is sorta like the accountant suburban dad who collects really specific figurines and gets really grumpy when people mess up his lawn. Do you know how hard his wife worked on those roses? He is calling his attorney. Oh wait, he is also an attorney.
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