Sure of course! And if nobody believed these stories the penthouse forums wouldn't exist.

No, that series of events is a fantasy. Nothing ever lines up that perfectly in real life. It’s like reading stories about “how I got back at my ex” on reddit. They’re all fabrications exactly like this one.

Whoever made that GIF is awful at GIFS.

At what point in the world will computer technology advance to the point that characters making out don’t look like the two puppets humping from “Team America”?

Sorry guys, but things like this:

Allll right! Finally a super-portable dispensing system for all my powdered Anthrax! No more unmarked white envelopes for me!

“We think they were mummifying pieces of animals that were lying around, or materials associated with the animals during their lifetime - so nest material or eggshells.

Well done Lieutenant Buzzkill. Next, we shall deploy you to a regional music festival, to deplore the lack of recycling facilities.

I sincerely hope that level 6 wanted is a military vs alien slugfest.

I think what Richard K. Morgan is missing in his analysis is the idea that two companions in a story mutually affect each other - and it’s this effect that forms bond that we recognize when we see “buddy cop” movies. It’s basically a bastardized version of the ancient greek heroic bond between warriors, but a myth is…

Only death is death in stories. Everything else doesn’t really mean anything.

Wow, United Nations. Way to take the wind out of your sails of dignity. “EEEeey. You know what would be zee triomphe of le diplomacy? Zee steeck feegure as mascot for our Human Rights! On dit NON a le genocide et rape, OUI a les steeck feegures!”

So is there a scientist out there ironically working on genetically modifying lettuce to stay crisper with CRISPR?

That’s literally the opposite of what the movie SPECIFICALLY said. Widow claimed she was sterilized because the evil organization decided babies were the “one thing that could be more important than the mission”. She was rendered sterile because motherhood was more powerful than the rational choice of people who…

The purpose of you imagining a scene that has never existed is so that you can realize the fact that it never existed, and start to clue in as to why it’s never existed. The hint here is that male heroic characters are never put in a situation that makes portions of the audience feel threatened or demeaned. This whole…

You aren’t really getting the double standard between men and women. That scene would NEVER exist for any male character, and has never existed. There are no male heroes who are sterilized and feel sad about it, just as there are no male heroes who are raped or threatened with rape. Men want to save the world (Tony),…

The context is created by the movie. 90% of the images of Widow’s “deepest fear” are being wheeled into the surgery, with images of mouthless children on the way. She is sterilized because babies are the “one thing that can make you doubt the mission” or whatever. Everything in the movie explicity presents it as…

So a strong, competent warrior woman, who saves the team with her fists and her iron will is reduced to a sexy-voiced beautiful toy used to calm down an overgrown Id, and you don’t see why people are offended by that?

It’s not just a single aspect of her backstory. Thanks to Scarlet Witch, we explicitly understand that the procedure that resulted in her sterilization is specifically her deepest fear, with a couple of throwaway seconds of her maybe killing some dude. Perhaps. But the dream and Widow’s reaction to it, as well as her…

Hey guys, so how are we doing on day 2? Have you guys been mansplained into submission yet?