{"id":213599,"date":"2014-05-01T04:13:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/01\/chubbinafatzarelli-you-know-why-captain-america\/"},"modified":"2014-05-01T04:13:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:13:01","slug":"chubbinafatzarelli-you-know-why-captain-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/01\/chubbinafatzarelli-you-know-why-captain-america\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/chubbinafatzarelli.tumblr.com\/post\/81761011018\" target=\"_blank\">chubbinafatzarelli<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>you know why captain america 2 is so great?<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s because they subvert almost every trope known to the media, especially in terms of romance and gender. steve\u2019s cute neighbor who supposedly has a thing for muscular bodies and washing machines? think again<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7fc6b4cd9c5255a8dab31780ef7a7abb\/tumblr_inline_n3jtkkxnVH1qh30wy.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>she\u2019s not here to flirt, she\u2019s here to fucking <em>save the world<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>was there a big kiss and a promise exchanged at the end of the film when all the dust settles and romance \u2014 if need be \u2014 is finally ready to occur? no. a date is vaguely suggested but immediately dismissed bc you know what is more important to the captain than kissing a pretty girl?<\/p>\n<p><em>saving his fucking friend\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/92d9fff98e84fe022fffd18078aaa09e\/tumblr_inline_n3ju1zZ7Ko1qh30wy.png\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>and who has the captain\u2019s back even though he has his own life to return to and his own pretty girl to woo?\u00a0sam fucking wilson: best bro of all the bros<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/04fcd0a2534467dd37c0422c82271520\/tumblr_inline_n3ju7eB9ZH1qh30wy.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>that is how fucking great captain america is<\/p>\n<p>women are powerful and have identity beyond the \u201clove interest\u201d. they\u2019re not standing idly by until the end of the movie, waiting to make love eyes at the male protagonist. they\u2019re not being saved, they\u2019re doing the saving. most of them aren\u2019t even implied as romantic candidates, they\u2019re too busy being kickass world saving agents.<\/p>\n<p>men are shown to be emotionally attached to other men and friendship\/loyalty\/heroism takes precedence over romance, to the point where romance isn\u2019t played into the writing at all. really impressive stuff, marvel. i approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chubbinafatzarelli: you know why captain america 2 is so great? it\u2019s because they subvert almost every trope known to the media, especially in terms of romance and gender. steve\u2019s cute neighbor who supposedly has a thing for muscular bodies and washing machines? think again she\u2019s not here to flirt, she\u2019s here to fucking save the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/01\/chubbinafatzarelli-you-know-why-captain-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[810,120,4,191,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}