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Robin's avatar

Honestly, Steve Rogers has such transmasc resonance for me. The five-foot-nothing troublemaker who is very easily disregarded and brushed aside, who abruptly becomes Very Man, and still has to contend with opinions and assumptions about the person he looks like vs the person he's always been. And, in the movie version at least, a BFF who's resentful (envious?) of his friend's irreversible glow-up. The unmanly dude becomes the manliest dude imaginable, and it's great and not-great for him in a variety of ways.

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Floria Tosca's avatar

Maybe this is a little farfetched, but could a transmasc reading of Steve Rogers lead to a t4t reading of his frequent teamups with Black Widow (a weaponized beauty with a mysterious past who canonically can't have kids) in the MCU?

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

I've heard that one before, and it makes sense to me in a way the others don't -- there's a plausibly trans framework there, I think!

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Name Required's avatar

What's going on with the images in this post? Is there a bizarre technical glitch, or is it a joke that went over my head?

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

with the images? They're just screenshots from the movie -- I wonder if clearing your cache and refreshing the page will help.

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Name Required's avatar

Except for the very first one, at the top of the page, they seem to be links to various URLs on Gmail. I've checked in multiple browsers and devices, and looking at the page source. The first broken image is just after "and I don't like any of this".

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Daniel Lavery's avatar

I'm so sorry! I'm not sure why that is.

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