{"id":202045,"date":"2014-07-11T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/11\/what-do-you-think-about-the-line-theres-only-one\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:45:57","slug":"what-do-you-think-about-the-line-theres-only-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/11\/what-do-you-think-about-the-line-theres-only-one\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you think about the line “There’s only one god ma’am and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t dress like that” said by Captain America in the Avengers. I’ve seen a lot of people say its out of character and how Steve’s not a stuffy old man and I was just wondering your take on it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

feministofthewatertribe<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Steve\u2019s not\u00a0<\/em>a stuffy old man,\u00a0but at the same time I love the idea of a Christian Steve who is also bisexual and really into activism and social justice and equality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imagine, Steve is being used as a poster boy for the conservative politicians – he\u2019s being used as the icon for the ideal American. White, heterosexual and the epitome of masculinity. Then he thaws out and finds out about all this, and he\u2019s outraged.<\/p>\n

He starts appearing on the news, on radio stations, doing interviews. And the American public and all the politicians realise he\u2019s not what they tried to make him out to be. He talks about the fact the same issues women are fighting for now we were fighting for back before he went under. He\u2019s angry about the fact women are still fighting for the right to have abortions. He talks about the wage gap, he talks about minimum wage (\u201cbut it\u2019s meant to be a living<\/em> wage\u201d), he talks about the anti-vaccine movement (\u201cso, let me get this straight, you\u2019re telling me we have vaccines for polio and measles and smallpox\u00a0and some parent\u2019s aren\u2019t getting their kids vaccinated.\u201d<\/em>) He talks about the fact that the lower classes are often called lazy (He majorly side-eyes them and says \u201clet me tell you Senator, the people who lived in my neighbourhood were\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>lazy\u201d), he talks about the education system and ableism (\u201ceducation should be accessible for everyone, Senator, and it\u2019s not. Its only accessible for the able-bodied and neurotypical. Let me tell you how hard it is to keep up with school work when you\u2019re missing lessons because you can\u2019t get out of bed \u201d),\u00a0he talks about access to health care (\u201cI thought we would have set up free health care in the 70 years I was gone to be honest\u201d) and he talks about what it was like to be skinny and ill all the time.
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He\u2019s confused when politicians call themselves Christians but don\u2019t care about the homeless or hate crimes or the poor living in America under everyone\u2019s noses – who everyone chooses to ignore.<\/p>\n

He wants to do something about it all, so instead of being a poster boy for conservative politicians, he becomes a poster boy for activism. He brings presents for kids in poor neighborhoods and politicians accuse him of wasting resources (\u201cpoor people deserve nice things too, just because they\u2019re poor doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t have nice things\u201d), he starts help housing homeless people, including LGBT+ young people who ran away from home to get away from abusive families (\u201cWe\u2019re supposed to be a Christian country and you have enough houses for everyone but some of them are\u00a0empty,\u00a0<\/em>because these people can\u2019t\u00a0pay\u00a0<\/em>for them?\u201d) and he writes references for less privileged kids to help them get into college (Tony rolls his eyes, and Steve\u2019s just like \u201cThey\u2019re going to be amazed when this kid has a reference from\u00a0Captain America\u201d\u00a0<\/em>and he\u2019s grinning like a child and Tony sighs and walks out the room but he ends up paying for this kids college fees).<\/p>\n

Of course, he ends up starting fights in pubs (\u201cExcuse me, she said she\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0interested\u201d )\u00a0<\/em>and pays for peoples taxis home and Natasha is trying to drag him away when he gets angry (\u201chonestly, I can\u2019t take you anywhere\u201d) and he calls out sexism in S.H.I.E.L.D when he hears Agents laughing together (\u201cSon, Agent Romanoff is not level 7 because of the way she looks and if she hears you say that she will crush you with her thighs, so just don\u2019t\u201d) and when he sees people or bosses being cruel to low-paid workers (\u201cI don\u2019t like bullies no matter who they are\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, he comes out as bisexual in an interview. He shrugs, even though he\u2019s nervous (he knows what people say about bisexaulity). He says he\u2019s always liked the boys in uniform as well as the girls and all the people who don\u2019t fit into the binary gender system. Then can you imagine it, the press goes wild. Imagine the headlines: \u201cCAPTAIN AMERICA: STARS\u00a0AND\u00a0<\/em>STRIPES?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And of course, all the conservative politicians are fuming, because they are angry they\u2019ve lost their poster boy again, <\/em>and they feel like they can\u2019t salvage anything from him now.\u00a0They start slagging him off, laughing at him as though he\u2019s some big joke, talking about same-sex marriages ruining the sanctity of marriage and how he was being greedy by not \u201cpicking a side\u201d, how he\u2019s a sinner. Steve grows bolder, and replies steadily, looking everyone in the eye: \u201cNo, Senator, the God I learnt about in Sunday School was loving, he wouldn\u2019t condemn people to death for loving someone of the same gender\u201d; \u201cNo, I\u2019m pretty sure that Bible verse was just referring to temple prostitution between the same gender\u201d; \u201cLove is love, God is love. I thought America was meant to be a country of tolerance and Christianity? \u201c.\u00a0
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And all the LGBT+ community, and especially young LGBT+ people are so thankful for him, because oh my god\u00a0Captain America is bisexual.<\/em><\/p>\n

Steve\u2019s still nervous about it, until a young girl approaches him in the street. She\u2019s twiddling her thumbs and she trips over all her words, explaining how she comes from a small town and a Christian family and how he gave her the courage to come out as bisexual and she understands its not a sin now, and she understands God made he like that and she can still be a Christian because Captain America is a bisexual Christian, and she doesn\u2019t feel guilty anymore, because it\u2019s who she is. Her eyes are shining with tears and Steve finds his eyes welling up to, and he knows then that he did the right thing coming out, because if he\u2019s helped even one person then it\u2019s worth it. Then he pulls her into a hug and because he\u2019s Steve and because he\u2019s Captain America it\u2019s the best hug and she feels like everything is going to be okay.<\/p>\n

Steve thinks later that its sad they\u2019re still fighting intolerance and prejudice now even though Captain America was made in a war that came about because\u00a0<\/em>of cruelty and prejudice. But before he goes to bed, Steve vows to be what he was made to be: an inspiration, a rallying point, a hero\u00a0<\/em>for those who need him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

feministofthewatertribe: Steve\u2019s not\u00a0a stuffy old man,\u00a0but at the same time I love the idea of a Christian Steve who is also bisexual and really into activism and social justice and equality.\u00a0 Imagine, Steve is being used as a poster boy for the conservative politicians – he\u2019s being used as the icon for the ideal American. … <\/p>\n

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