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Brie Larson has vanished.

A star of Avengers: Endgame, one of the biggest movies of all time, was completely excised from a modified pirated version of the film — along with everything else in the film seen as feminist or gay.

An anonymous fan edited out shots, scenes and characters in a "defeminized" version circulating now on an illegal streaming site. As well as losing Larson's character, Captain Marvel, the defeminized edit is missing a scene where Hawkeye teaches his daughter to shoot. ("Young women should learn skills to become good wives and mothers and leave the fighting to men," the editor opined in an accompanying document.) The role of Black Panther is minimized. ("He's really not that important.") Spider-Man doesn't get rescued by women characters anymore. ("No need to.") And male characters no longer hug.

"I think what we've seen, as fan culture and geek culture moves from the margins to the mainstream," [Suzanne Scott, a professor of film and media studies at the University of Texas] says, "is that a particular set — and I should note, a small percentage — of predominantly white straight male fans feel like their culture that they had ownership and claim over for many, many generations is sort of slipping away from them, as that culture gets bigger and inevitably more diverse."

A similar "chauvinist cut" of 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi removed key scenes of women making decisions, giving orders, having ideas and fighting in battle.

"It is borderline incomprehensible"

Edit: I see some people saying this shouldn't be signal boosted, but I want to stress three points why I think it's worth mentioning, even on this site. First, people should be made aware that this continues to happen; it happened with The Last Jedi and it's happening still. Second, that this is a thing that happens, as the University of Texas film professor points out, in "fan culture and geek culture" communities, which we have abundantly here. And, third, that because we have those communities here, that good people in those communities should police them, report users who keep bringing up how everyone hates Brie Larson, that she "broke the law" in Captain Marvel, that Holdo in The Last Jedi "acts irrationally", "is wearing a dress and not a military uniform," or "has purple hair, and who could take that seriously" as legitimate criticism, all of which has appeared here.
 
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Imagine being offended by the simple presence of these actors to this point.

Ridiculous, those aren't fans, they're the pettiest bitches on earth.
 

Soupman Prime

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I wanna say why give these idiots even more exposure but it at least allows us to point and laugh at them. Got chills when these characters showed in Endgame, how the hell is removing them fixing anything.
 

Serif

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Oct 27, 2017
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The description reads like parody.

Who gives a fucking shit at this point, these people don't matter.
 

hitme

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Oct 26, 2017
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I bet they didn't remove...

Black Widow's death scene.
 

Slayven

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Oct 25, 2017
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When women and minorities live in your head rent free so much you put in a full shift being a bigot
 

amusix

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Oct 29, 2017
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Didn't we have this thread and it was already shut down? There something new with this coming up again?
 

sapien85

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These people are a vestigial body part that needs to be disregarded till it withers away through evolution.
 

Nepenthe

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No one needed to edit a three hour movie to tell me nerd culture is bigoted.
 

skipgo

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Azuran

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I would like to believe this is parodying the alt right morons... but there's people out there that hate everyone that's not a white male so I don't know really know man.
 

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i heard about this a while ago and found the torrent, and it had a whopping 7 seeders and less leechers

it's really just some moron and a couple of other morons
 

Surfinn

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Guys hear me out

If we ignore this

Maybe these people will disappear because we looked the other way
 

Mona

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so was this sincere or just trying to get a rise out of people?

probably both
 

Zaied

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I don't know how these dudes are going to survive the next phase(s). We're almost certainly getting Captain Marvel and Black Panther trilogies, Black Widow is on the way, Feige says Ms. Marvel is on the way, and there will undoubtedly be more and more focus on women going forward.
 
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