Want to watch people lose their minds? By people I mean White people – decenter them, or their idea of who they should be and the chaos it impacts. I have a 4 day weekend. I changed my plans for the weekend but I am still having the 4 days and no regrets.
I slept in for a change, I rarely do that.
When I finally tossed on a robe and opened up the laptop I was presented with gripes about the Marvels trailer and the most recent episode of And Just Like That….
Because I am still a Marvel stan, and because it might make some Caucasian male angry here is the trailer:
This looks good. Very good. I can recall a conversation where the person tried to diminish Carol, and her power set, and allege that she was ineffectual in the battle for Earth. In hindsight, I get it, it is who they are, the reality says different though. What was apparent in EndGame, and is teased in this trailer is that Carol is the baddest of the bunch, and her Infinity Stone power set elevates her above the billionaire in the metal suit and the stars and stripes guy. Badder than the God of Thunder? If you watched What If?….that is possible.
What’s even better? The fact that Nia the director is a whole Black woman.
I watched the CandyMan remake/reboot. I was unimpressed, yet I also give space because I can see what she wanted to do. If I knew where I could find the Director’s cut? I might watch it. That would be a better investment of my time and energy than a 4 hour Snyder version of the Big 3 which was told from the perspective of Cyborg who no one gives a fuck about.
COVID changed the movie landscape, there are fewer billion dollar babies these days, but this movie will still make all of the money and will still do that which makes White men and those who envy their privilege unhinged. Here.For.It.
On a quick side note – shout out to Kevin Feige for giving Black men and women the reins for billion dollar productions.
As I sipped coffee and delighted in the angst of fan bros, I ran across yet another moment of the status quo being rejected on the screen and the complaints. This time the White women were angry! Well damn, who knew my vacation would start off so well?
If I had to guess it was this image which began the backlash.
I wrote about Che and Miranda :
My wish came true – kind of. Che & Miranda broke up in the last episode. While I am low key disappointed that it might mean less Che, I am thankful they didn’t trot Miranda from one relationship into another and with any fortune will show us a version of womanhood that doesn’t get a lot of play – the single 50 something woman.
First, let’s remind the people that women in their 40s and 50s still date, still fuck, still masturbate and don’t necessarily need a partner. We aren’t all in a relationship, and lots of us are cool with it. I know I am.
Especially in the aftermath of the last time I tried to wear that dress, and seeing what is out here after it? Yeah, I’m good for the moment.
The quick hit recap:
Miranda version Sex & the City – perpetually single, high earning career woman modestly attractive but pretty ‘average’ outside her red hair spent most of the series having mini relationships and hook ups. She wasn’t as relationship minded as her peers, not as sex driven as Samantha. She was just your regular chick out here doing that which we do. She hooks up with bartender Steve. They have a on off relationship-hook up for years. Miranda along the way realizes that Steve is not what she wants but the Universe has jokes and she ends up pregnant. Miranda decides to be a mom, falls in love with Steve. They eventually marry and move to Brooklyn.
White women hated Miranda until she admitted she loved Steve and moved to Brooklyn. The version of her living and being her in Manhattan, working to become partner at her firm, nope. White women did not like that. It countered the ideal they embraced that some man would come in and make everything right for them. It wasn’t until she picked Steve they finally ‘liked’ her. Watching her embrace being a wife and mother and leaving that sinful Manhattan is what won them over.
I’ve got no beef with Steve. He was a nice enough character in the show. One of the regular guys out there, not the eight figure mogul like Mr. Big. Miranda settled though. She looked at the landscape, determined he was her only chance to ‘be like everyone else’ and tried on that traditional womanhood for a while. I’d always identified the most with Miranda, and in this moment? I still do. She tried it. I tried it.
For many years she did the wife with the kid thing. She loves her son, but all things being equal she might not have picked motherhood had she not gotten knocked up under unusual circumstances. Yeah, sounds familiar. While her time in the kids formative years she did her best sometimes she dropped the ball. Check. While the person she was with she genuinely loved, she understood there was more she wanted out of her life than to be Mrs. Steve. Check.
One of the biggest complaints about the re-visit to the women of Sex and the City is that Miranda was no longer likeable. She used to be this STRONG character, now who the fuck is she?
Miranda And Just Like That version:
Married to the man she settled for almost 20 years, mother to adult son, realizes that she could/should be doing more with her life quits job and returns to school. Admits she’s in a sexless marriage and decides she is not old enough to be on the sofa eating ice cream with a roommate and relocates her libido with a non binary person she has amazing chemistry with. She ditched the gray hair, went back to red when she went back to bed. Trying to figure out what to name the next stage of her life.
Miranda is the walking talking fear of the White women out there. If for some reason they leave the unfulfilling home they created they will be single and 50. There are worst things than being single and 50 ladies.
Before the weekend is over I might do a Miranda is right post but for the now? I am loving how today those others are mad.
Die mad.