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The Complex Feels of Guardians of the Galaxy v.2
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Oh I just love all of them- cat named Rocket and senior blind rescue pup named Groot.
one day I'll rewatch the video with some whisky and will cry even more than I'm crying right now
Absolutely loved this one.
Try not to cry, cry a LOT.
Hael Yeah.
Was actually some good rep of toxic masculinity, even in the way that it's not always as banal as it can be portrayed, it's just, pretty clearly not the path to an extra good ending.
I think I was more touch by Lindsay's video than I was by the movie.
James Gunn has used that thorax joke several times, but I'm not convinced he actually knows what a thorax is.
If you want people to stop thinking toxic masculinity means being a man is toxic, maybe not call it toxic masculinity. Imagine the uproar if we started saying toxic femininity.
I just realized that my weird anger toward my brother exists because of our upbringing.. I rly didn't get that until now.. Welp I didn't open this video to peak inside my psyche but here we are
I had to cry. I'm still crying.
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Um. Lindsay. Your view on "Toxic Masculinity" was kind of silly. You might as well of said, "Little Boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails."
Still love the video, and the channel, but yeesh.
Tbh I had never heard toxic masculinity actually described and “detrimental dickwagging” makes sense to me in a way that I wasn’t able to pick up from casual references.
I also wasn’t expecting to feel my feelings during either of the Guardians movies. I was mostly curious because Marvel had decided to make a movie of a long forgotten B-list superhero team that had just been revived in the comics after more than a decade. I was not expecting the emotional gut punch of watching Meredith Quill die of a brain tumour in the opening scene of the first movie.
My stepfather died from a brain tumour in 2004, but this put me right back there. Then there was the adversarial relationship between Peter and Yondu, which reminded me a lot of the relationship between my stepfather and I. It was touched upon in the first movie, but definitely more so in the sequel. So when Yondu said that line of dialogue to Peter as they flew away from the planet, I fully admit to bawling my eyes out then. And also at the funeral scene when Peter finally realized his dad was pretty cool after he died, much like I did. And then came the song by Cat Stevens. ?????
Why Peter is misogyny in the conversation with Gamora?
Narcisist or Egoist but… Misogyny?
I call it testosterone poisoning.
You don't really get the motivations behind the character Yondu.
Nice video. Lots of compelling points, but I still was never convinced by the Yondu character change in Vol2. He was more like a Jabba the Hut character in Vol 1, and to make him a father figure was such a u-turn, and with no effort considering he only sees Quill in the last 15 minutes of the film. Didn’t feel anything at the end of this movie no matter how much whisky i drink.
Captain Portland is the best Taserface
In my opinion, this is the best video on youtube.
I feel the Yondu/Ego feels. This is basically my childhood, with a father who wanted nothing to do with me, and a Dad whom chose to be my parent after seeing the situation. Hell, my Mother was even sick from the time I was 10 until I was 16, though she eventually got better. So Yondu going made me cry in the theatre.
Most of the male characters in MCU have toxic masculinity and everytime Stark and Quill talk, I just hear the chorus of Toxic
Thank you. This helps.
I cried at the fifth watch.
I had to stop the video a few times when you started talking about abusive households. It was…. too real. Are you ok? Because I'm not.
I love this film so much but the emotions it brings are so strong that I'm scared to put it on. I only stick around to watch it if it comes on TV.
As the abuse given to me by my mother has become more obvious to me over the years, this movie, and this video essay has grown more power and impact on my life. Seeing the parallels has shown me what to forgive, and what to shun. Thank you.
My father has suffered from addiction, mood swings, instability, troubled relationships with attempts at friendships and romance, and up until only a few years ago was suffering from a mental illness that he had no diagnosis for.
He's 50 now, and I'm 23, and I can't say even now that we've returned to a place of true, consistent warmth and camaraderie, like we had when I was very small. He misses those days, and often laments about how he failed as a father, and oftentimes I can find myself getting annoyed with his frequent lamentations.
Because I wanna be able to forget all that stuff happened, because I want to be supportive of him continuing to grow and improve and become the kind of man he can be proud of himself for being.
But I can't forget the abuse, the lashing out, yknow? I want to, but it puts this invisible divide that even though we've talked about it, forgiven over it, cried over it.
It just never quite goes away. His health isn't great, but he still works very long hours to support his house, and whenever I fall through, he is prepared to help me financially(though he may guilt-trip me or lecture me about my own failings.)
Our relationship isn't as warm as either of us would like it to be, but I don't know how to bridge that gap with all the things we know happened, and happened in horrible, lasting ways.
I do love my father, I can't claim to harbor feelings of hate, just feelings of leftover disappointment.
I suffered needlessly transitioning into the adult world cause I never wanted to rely on him, when I moved out in my senior year, I was so angry, because in my eyes he had idly sat by while my former stepmother abused me physically and emotionally.
But I can see now he was suffering as I was, and though his relationship to his ex-wife is more complicated than my own, it remains a gap in our own relationship, because all that time can never be returned to our family.
Maybe one day we'll return to a place of warmth
I sincerely hope that when he passes away, that no matter what the tears or memories, I will be able to say what needs to be said..
and know that, yeah
I really do love my Dad.
I would LOVE to see Lindsay discussing the themes of Guardians with the dude from Full Fat Videos, they both have such interesting interpretations of the stories, i think it would be an awesome conversation.