Mostly backwoods hicks declaring the USA as the greatest country in the world in spite of never having traveled anywhere further than their own county.

Agreed. I think the word “entitled” has reached that point where it’s so overused that it is losing any kind of bite, but if people saying “I don’t like this storyline, you should have made one more to my tastes instead” isn’t entitled then I really don’t know what is.

See also “we couldn’t find the flashing lights warning for Cyberpunk, even though VIDEO GAMES ARE MADE OF LIGHTS THAT FLASH,” or that one game that included a slider to hide spiders because of people vocally complaining about seeing spiders. Folks are babies.

Buzzy Cohen would like to have a word...

You’re not wrong, but it’s kind of interesting how several of these “many angry and confused questions” didn’t seem to show up in the “just give her the job already!” article you guys ran not even a week ago.

It suddenly occurs to me that Paul F Tompkins should’ve gotten a guest host shot at it. He’s even got the mustache!

No one should care about this.  

Good. NOW we can all heal.

I’m not outraged. Twitter doesn’t bother me. A black Captain America doesn’t bother me. A woman Captain America doesn’t bother me. A white woman temporarily replacing the black Captain America for advertising purposes doesn’t bother me. Am I the problem?!?!??!

Shut the fuck up, barsanti. 

Quick! I need 500 words of pointless bullshit! Light the Barsanti signal!

“if social media accounts of fictional characters run by large corporations are enough to get people in this society all bent out of shape, society must be doing pretty damn well.”

Had the change not been made: “there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel refused to replace a man with a woman in its promotional materials, especially in light of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit and Disney’s tone-deaf media response.”

Yep.

Like...I wonder if they feel even partway as bad as they should?

I was worried the world had passed me by, but then I read literally every comment on this terrible thing that I’m sorry to admit I wasted time reading, and it appears that everyone has had the same basic reaction, which seems to be some form of “I can’t believe I wasted a part of my life reading and thinking about…

So, basically:

Promoting Captain Carter: Bad
Not Promoting Captain Carter: Bad

“there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel jumped at the chance to replace a Black man with a white woman in its promotional materials.”

That’s only part of the problem. The other part is that it’s been at least nine hours since we were able to stroke our outrage boners and we need release.

She shills brain pill supplements.