saucefactory:

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.