#that was enough to warrant a ton of babyfying him but BA has actually complex emotions problems and interesting trauma and y'all hate it

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Talking abt how what BA did to Wasp is unforgivable but then saying u like Sentinel 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

#ramblez #NO I'M NOT GONNA SHUT UP ABT THIS #in general I haven't had a lot of energy to talk so y'know U guys just have to put up with whatever I wanna say rn #bc I don't have the energy to conjure up more than rage rn- #how do people find Wasp at all compelling or tragic at all like did I miss an episode?? #Wasp has two traits and it's cowardly and Mean #that was enough to warrant a ton of babyfying him but BA has actually complex emotions problems and interesting trauma and y'all hate it #like I see it and I gotta tell y'all it's not subtle at all #honestly I really hate how misused the word is nowadays as just When directors objectify women bc the tfa fandom has the Most male gaze #to ever male gaze #to quickly explain no the male gaze is not when men make.women look hot in a movie #it is when male characters are treated as nuanced people with emotions and reasons behind their emotions #and women are treated as unknowable objects with Nothing more going on in their lives or brains #a great example is the walking dead S2 and onward #y do the women do the things they do? well often just to create drama in the story and it's never given reason or speculation in the story #but the men get to have grand talks and speeches explaining why they do everything they do #this can also go thw opposite way sometimes like narratives that depict toxic masculinity as genetic or normal with no underlying cause #meanwhile going deep into the women characters abt their emotions or otherwise tho either way it's usually Very sexist #but anyways yeah the tfa fandom has that going on SO HARD #like heres Wasp and Sentinel canonically their reasons for being assholes is simple they r massive self centered jerks #but the fandom speculates on that crafts backstory and complexities for them and talks about why they do the things they do #meanwhile ESPECIALLY in relation to the waspinator thing ppl don't do that with BA #She intended to cure wasp bc she was desperate to cure herself #she has nearly gotten herself killed on multiple occasions out of self loathing and trying to atleast in her mind fix herself #wasp was a last resort after multiple multiple tries nearly resulted in her death #year and YEARS of being tormented by the fact she can't go home the ppl around her including the cons r all disgusted with her #AND that Sentinel and Optimus ultimately failed to protect her despite putting her trust in them to do so #not the mention sentinels whole Omg ur scars r so ugly u should've died moment #u will never convince me Wasp is worth a damn or his problems matter when he's sitting next to someone who never did anything to deserve #the horrible fate she got