leftists will see you living your best life in your own home with your own car working a good job that provides for your family and be like "how's it feel to be in prison?"
people are going off on her comments but i think even the harshest critics have to acknowledge how crazy it is that itās 2026 and this is the absolute very first superhero movie starring a woman.
pretend sexism isnāt a thing if you want but then why did it take so long?
I had to read an old anarchist for a class I did and his general view was
"what about crime? Well crime just wouldn't happen because of education"
"Well if crime still happens then we 'ostracize' them from society"
"well if that still doesn't stop it then a few enterprising individuals just lynch them"
Something Iāve noticed a lot in recent online discourse is what Iāll call āselective literacyā, allow me to explain:
Thereās a group of people online who take things like Jax from Digital Circus and insist that heās trans because of the context of scenes, themes, and undertones present in the final episode, with no word from the creator whatsoever (I know thereās been a post now but my point still stands). If you dare suggest the contrary, or admit that these things are not as obvious to the general audience or put together well, youāre simply deemed as wrong and ostracized from the online space.
Then on the flip side that same group of people will tell you that IzuOcha isnāt canon, despite the same type of context and theme usage being present in the final episode of MHA. They do so many mental gymnastics to prove their point that you kinda have to wonder if they need to touch some grass.
āIzuOcha canāt be canon because it wasnāt explicitly romantic!ā Yet, Jax can be trans without it being explicitly stated in the episode. Do you see what Iām getting at here? Terminally online twt users are so far into their own delusions that they canāt seem to pick up on their own double standards, or admit that their āinterpretationā of a series is contradictory to whatās stated in the canon.
I firmly believe media literacy is dead and we killed it. In a world where truth is subjective, everyone has to be correct, and my feelings are always valid, thereās no room to properly discuss things that are objectively true anymore.
Prison abolitionists basically fall into three camps:
1. All violence is downstream of base-superstructure interaction (i.e. humans lack free will).
2. The violent should be detained in not-prison until they're reprogrammed to be good by The Procedure (unspecified).
3. Lynchings.
Gooseworx unintentionally made Jax the most relatable straight male ever. Digital Circus is about caring about one manās mental health.
Jax is a normal guy forced to co-exist in an environment with no other normal guys. A typical snarky wise-cracking dude that no one else gets. As time goes on, the less normal guys remain in the circus, the less stable his mental facilities get.
In the end, heās surrounded by neurotic, mentally damaged women and the only other guy is an introverted dementia patient. No wonder he abstracts, he has no one to relate to. His only failure was not seeing this as an opportunity to step up and be a decisive leader.
He almost has a solid girl in Ribbit but as soon as he opens up, she tries to groom him so he rightfully shuts her out. It makes him paranoid. So when Pomni tries to get close later heās too cautious to let her. And most guys donāt appreciate women trying to psycho-analyze them like a science project.
Pomni did the one thing women in media almost never do: cared about him despite his reflexive avoidance. If Jax had a rock solid guy to talk to, someone on his level, or had a little more real life experience with girls, heād have understood Pomniās intentions better, but losing a dad early means he lost that source of wisdom.
Jax is the new Rorscach: a character understood on one level by the creator but perceived entirely different by the audience. Even much of the audience doesnāt get Jax. The cope by the gender-obsessed midwits is Jax is trans but that couldnāt be further from the truth and they just donāt get it. Not surprising.
Jax didnāt have a happy ending. A lot of guys donāt. But he was the closest weāve ever seen to a normal straight male in modern media than weāve seen in a generation. He deserved better.
When I got arrested for Nazi Pug, I got held in jail until my court date due to the "serious nature" of my "offence".
But the guy who threw a toddler into a crocodile enclosure to try and have him ripped limb from limb has already been bailed the very next day.
Clown country.
itās all about āa womanās right to chooseā until she chooses something that you donāt like
when young women say they want to go to college and end up in massive amounts of debt they are praised but when they choose marriage / raising a family itās a ābad ideaā and sheās ānaiveā