#bitching incoming, sincerest apologies
I get really twitchy whenever I see those posts that are like "Hey the movie is called THOR not LOKI how about you pay Thor more attention/respect".
Because people paying more attention to one presumably straight white dude over another presumably straight white dude is clearly the crisis of our age.
I literally cannot think of a conversation that matters less than whether or not the title character of a multi-million dollar movie franchise has enough attention. Trust me when I say that Thor will never lack for societal attention or respect. Do I even have to show my work on this one??? The trend we see in fandom is situational, and specific to a relatively small female viewing audience. Thor is liked well enough by the thousands and thousands of people who went to see the movie who think fandom is a weird past-time. Like, no matter how many rumblings there may be about Loki getting his own movie, it's not going to happen because there's not enough Purell in the world to sanitize him enough for the mom taking her young children to the movies on a Saturday. Thor is the one who little boys dress as at Halloween and the one you are never going to not find merchandise for.
Like, if you want to talk about underrated, under-respected characters look at the AO3 rankings for Sif and Jane. We could also talk about how whenever I follow a Thor movieverse fan on Tumblr it is a massive crapshoot to find someone who likes both Sif and Jane and doesn't try to use one's merits to belittle the other? How about we have that conversation, huh, FANDOM?
If people want to mobilize Loki fandom to try and refocus I feel like it should be on something that actually matters, because believe me that I would throw both male leads under a bus if it meant Sif and Jane got a fraction of the attention and delicate, nuanced, plot-driven fannish writing that Thor and Loki do. It doesn't matter who your favorite is. It doesn't matter what their merits as a character are. Because ultimately, both of them are less important, because they are part of a representative history going back to the beginning of western visual media. I think there's a lot of great meta about female sexuality + female participatory culture in general in Loki fandom, and I do think that's awesome, but we also need to be able to acknowledge and examine the idea that huge populations of women and girls have an easier time identifying with Loki than they do with comparable female characters.
IMO, when people complain about Thor not getting enough attention, they are flying past the point at light speed.
Because people paying more attention to one presumably straight white dude over another presumably straight white dude is clearly the crisis of our age.
I literally cannot think of a conversation that matters less than whether or not the title character of a multi-million dollar movie franchise has enough attention. Trust me when I say that Thor will never lack for societal attention or respect. Do I even have to show my work on this one??? The trend we see in fandom is situational, and specific to a relatively small female viewing audience. Thor is liked well enough by the thousands and thousands of people who went to see the movie who think fandom is a weird past-time. Like, no matter how many rumblings there may be about Loki getting his own movie, it's not going to happen because there's not enough Purell in the world to sanitize him enough for the mom taking her young children to the movies on a Saturday. Thor is the one who little boys dress as at Halloween and the one you are never going to not find merchandise for.
Like, if you want to talk about underrated, under-respected characters look at the AO3 rankings for Sif and Jane. We could also talk about how whenever I follow a Thor movieverse fan on Tumblr it is a massive crapshoot to find someone who likes both Sif and Jane and doesn't try to use one's merits to belittle the other? How about we have that conversation, huh, FANDOM?
If people want to mobilize Loki fandom to try and refocus I feel like it should be on something that actually matters, because believe me that I would throw both male leads under a bus if it meant Sif and Jane got a fraction of the attention and delicate, nuanced, plot-driven fannish writing that Thor and Loki do. It doesn't matter who your favorite is. It doesn't matter what their merits as a character are. Because ultimately, both of them are less important, because they are part of a representative history going back to the beginning of western visual media. I think there's a lot of great meta about female sexuality + female participatory culture in general in Loki fandom, and I do think that's awesome, but we also need to be able to acknowledge and examine the idea that huge populations of women and girls have an easier time identifying with Loki than they do with comparable female characters.
IMO, when people complain about Thor not getting enough attention, they are flying past the point at light speed.