Avengers: 2 Age of Ultron press tour is making all sorts of news, and not in a good way. If you've just tuned in, Robert Downey Jr. is still a jerk and Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner are currently vying (hard) for his title. Robert Downey Jr made headlines this past week for storming out of an interview after being confronted with his drug-addled past, hot on the heels of this muddy affair Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner made headlines by calling Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow a "slut" and a "whore" and agreeing when the interviewer (erroneously) declared that Natasha Romanova would always be a sidekick and that no Avengers fan had any interest in seeing her spinoff into her own movie or series. As if that weren't enough Robert Downey Jr scored the cast a trifecta (in the worst way) when he inferred that it was impressive that Birdman Director and Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu could manage (in his bilingual state) to string together the words "cultural genocide" in response to a question regarding Inarritu's (well-informed and intelligent) opinion on superhero movies. If in the next week any of the cast happens to have errant words to absently hurl at the LGBQT community than they will have successfully covered all the isms with homophobia as the brass ring. Truly a
As a comic book fan this disappoints me verily so I thought to take a step back a few years (try a few decades) and create a playlist that is reminiscent of a time when social media didn't exist and youtube didn't unveil the sad, stupid people that some unfortunate celebrities turn out to be. It is certainly in my opinion its own little Shakespearean tragedy that people in such a beautiful situation can turn out so entitled and solipsistic but, it is what it is, and the 90s (and early 2000s) were what they were which frankly was....better (at least musically and culturally) so here we are and here's your playlist and all I can say is if the sexism unveiled from Captain America and Hawkeye...wait who?,(I know, he's irrelevant to me too) bothers you too, there's always tumblr all the feminists and good human beings hang out there, (and they make gifs about it!) so with that I bid you a
Later kittens!
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