Petition To Substitute Brie Larson As Captain Marvel Now At 25,000 Signatures
Captain Marvel – and particularly Brie Larson – has generated an unbelievable quantity of controversy in 2019. Previous to launch, the actress made some extremely milquetoast feminist feedback, which have been seized upon by extra disagreeable followers as ammunition to make use of towards her. This developed into an avalanche of on-line negativity, which led many to conclude that Larson’s feminist posturing had irrevocably doomed the film and it will go down in historical past as Marvel Studios’ first outright flop.
Provided that the movie has now made about $1.1 billion, it’s secure to say that sure parts of the web have been speaking out of their collective asses. However now, there’s one other assault on Captain Marvel and this time, it’s apparently from the exact same social justice warriors which might be supposedly the most important followers of the film.
An internet petition, which has nearly hit 25,000 signatures (after passing 15,000 not too way back), calls for the next:
We’d like Brie Larson to step down from her function to show she is an ally of social justice and guarantee a homosexual lady of shade performs the function. Let Monica, the unique feminine & BLACK Captain Marvel as an alternative of white-washing characters for the advantage of the straight, white males working Disney.
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Fairly damning, proper? I imply, now that they’re being attacked from progressives, perhaps Disney and Marvel Studios will lastly act and exchange Brie as Captain Marvel.
Or they received’t, as a result of to anybody with half a mind, that is clearly a stunt by the alt-right meant to create a false look of shock. Attending to the underside of this wasn’t precisely some Woodward and Bernstein stuff, both. The creators have been discussing on 4Chan how finest to “use Brie Larson’s rhetoric towards her,” together with tips about which petition website to make use of and a notice that maybe they need to take away the phrase “homosexual” from the petition because it makes the ruse “too apparent.” This isn’t even a very new tactic (see their previous makes an attempt to pose as black feminists who wished to cancel Father’s Day).
However naturally, it’s not apparent sufficient to cease many different journalists from reporting on it as if it’s the gospel reality. Eesh, how embarrassing for them…