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More fic I am not writing:
Apr. 10th, 2013 10:38 pm(Sometimes) A Moving Target is Good for You
in which Tony Stark exhibits various sexist behaviors, including:
* making a really degrading remark on purpose
* making a really degrading remark by accident
* various mildly degrading and/or objectifying things
* what he dearly thought was a compliment
* protecting someone who (really) didn't need to be protected
* automatically excluding women from a thing that some of them ought to have been included in
* not thinking to invite some women whose skills suggest that they should be included, because they were women
* god knows what else, Tony's just being Tony
I like Tony. I think some of this is actually out of character for how I see him regularly, because I think he usually does see people by their aptitudes before he thinks of gender, unless some of the aptitudes are an itty bitty waist and a round thing in [his] face. (Also the Tony I think of is cheerfully bisexual, so it's an equal-opportunity lech zone.) But due to the chain of screaming, I get to scream about men in power and sexist comments that they didn't even realize were sexist today. And I'd rather think about someone who has his head up his ass, but means well, and can be taught if Cap and/or Pepper look disappointed in him, than someone whose good intent I jolly well don't trust.
in which Tony Stark exhibits various sexist behaviors, including:
* making a really degrading remark on purpose
* making a really degrading remark by accident
* various mildly degrading and/or objectifying things
* what he dearly thought was a compliment
* protecting someone who (really) didn't need to be protected
* automatically excluding women from a thing that some of them ought to have been included in
* not thinking to invite some women whose skills suggest that they should be included, because they were women
* god knows what else, Tony's just being Tony
I like Tony. I think some of this is actually out of character for how I see him regularly, because I think he usually does see people by their aptitudes before he thinks of gender, unless some of the aptitudes are an itty bitty waist and a round thing in [his] face. (Also the Tony I think of is cheerfully bisexual, so it's an equal-opportunity lech zone.) But due to the chain of screaming, I get to scream about men in power and sexist comments that they didn't even realize were sexist today. And I'd rather think about someone who has his head up his ass, but means well, and can be taught if Cap and/or Pepper look disappointed in him, than someone whose good intent I jolly well don't trust.
