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  1. Age of Ultron had dialogue making fun of testosterone infused violence then proceeded to revel in testosterone infused violence for 2 hours.
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  2. Attention media makers: Lampshading a thing does NOT then automatically give you free license to go ahead and use that thing in your media.
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  3. Simply acknowledging something is not the same as critiquing it. Likewise self-referential humor is not the same as commentary or criticism.
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    Jonathan McIntosh ‏@radicalbytes · 11h11 hours ago
    The levels of toxic hegemonic masculinity on display in Age of Ultron was off the charts. That fact passes without comment in most reviews.
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    1. @radicalbytes I'm glad they finally made it so that Stark's pig-headed arrogance had consequences though, I hope they keep that up.
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    2. @SidizenKane @radicalbytes Tony Stark has a really fascinating arc over these movies. Its brilliant.
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    3. @radicalbytes I haven't seen it yet, but the trailers haven't sold it to me. 'Hulkbuster Iron Man' in particular makes me go... umm really?
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    4. The core ideological underpinning of superhero stories is that violence is inevitable so "good guys” have a responsibility to be violent.
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    5. @radicalbytes is this somehow false. Violence is sometimes unavoidable.
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    6. @radicalbytes yes. But its crazy to go into every movie if you will only be happy with a deconstruction of the genre.
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    7. If that sounds strangely familiar, that's because it’s also the core ideological underpinning of US Military and US police force actions.
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    8. @radicalbytes except for the context of WHY the Avengers fight. We’re they wrong to fight off aliens? Stop Ultron?
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    9. @radicalbytes I think you can actually, depending on how you view storytelling & story.
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    10. @radicalbytes Yep. That's not a coincidence - comics were a chosen US propaganda vehicle since WW2. http://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/74/ 
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    11. .@JordanAshcraft Aliens are a fictional construct which are specifically designed to justify and excuse ultra violent responses to conflict.
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    12. @radicalbytes Sure but that doesn’t then make the avengers response invalid. What are they supposed to do? Not fight?
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    13. @JordanAshcraft *whoosh* That was the sound of you completely missing the point.
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    14. @radicalbytes o no, I get your point. It’s valid. But that’s not the whole of the movie. You are focusing on one specific thing.
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    15. @radicalbytes this is the underpinning of Greek myth, the bible, the Qur'an, Westerns, most sci fi, the Three Musketeers, Don Coyote... etc
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    16. @radicalbytes ultimately all drama is about conflict and that's most easily represented by physical conflict, which is why its so prevalent
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