"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Disney Characters

EyeBRollin

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I recently downloaded Disney Plus to get caught up on Marvel (last movie I watched was Avengers: Endgame). So far I got through Falcon & Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and binged watched Star Wars The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett.

Thoughts:
Female characters are significantly more powerful than the male characters. This was no surprise, as Disney has been pandering to women for quite some time. Every female character on screen is just stronger or gets better powers than the men. It’s comical at this point.

The male characters, though significantly weaker, go through better character arcs and offer multiple inspiring feats of courage and bravery. I can’t tell if this is intentional, as they make a point to show male characters being flawed and weaker from the start. The female characters have no such arc. For the men it is actually getting hard to tell if any of the male characters are villains, as they all start off with such flaws and make growth.

The dynamic is clearly-
Female = hero
Male = flawed hero or anti-hero

Thoughts?
 

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I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

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The male characters, though significantly weaker, go through better character arcs and offer multiple inspiring feats of courage and bravery. I can’t tell if this is intentional, as they make a point to show male characters being flawed and weaker from the start. The female characters have no such arc.
This is intentional, and it's why they've started to call the MCU the M-She-U. However, this way of pushing feminism has a way of backfiring. As you have noticed, since the female characters are perfect and strong to begin with, it's difficult to write an interesting story about them, because they have no character arc. The lesser males have to learn their lessons and earn their position as heroes.

I haven't seen WandaVision yet, but I gather that Wanda has or will have a character arc - if not already then in the upcoming Dr. Strange movie.

Disney Plus also now has the Marvel Netflix series, if you haven't seen them.
 

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Are you just now noticing that hollywood is pushing an agenda...???...

All the hollywood bigwigs, the corporate CEOs, banking elites, "news" outlet CEOs, etc all attend the same social gatherings, events and galas....

...they all rub elbows with each other... To not realize that there is a concerted effort to push an agenda is naive.....
 
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