Would Have Been Almost Perfect If It Wasn't for All the Simping

I saw the movie because wife/kids and it's even worse.

When Mario first meets Princess Peach he is made to complete an obstacle course to prove his worth to accompany her on a mission. The obstacle course has what you would expect from a Mario game (plenty of platform jumps, piranha plants, traps, bullets, etc.). Princess Peach easily completes the obstacle course as a demonstration. She then gives Mario a mushroom to eat which makes him taller, stronger, faster, etc. It takes him all day and night to complete the course by jumping on the flagpole but is intercepted by a piranha plant at the last second (or maybe it was a ball 'n chain; I can't quite remember), so he never actually completes the obstacle course. Princess Peach says that it's okay because he almost completed it and never quits, but eventually reveals that she previously completed the obstacle course on her first attempt.

Not only did Mario require a magic mushroom to compete with Princess Peach, he didn't even complete the obstacle course.

Eventhough they changed the narrative (in the games the Mario brothers have to save the Princess) and now Mario have to save his brother... And the Princess is now a strong independent woman... Both Mario and Luigi are the ones that beat Bowser and save both realms.

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All this talk of 'incels' makes me laugh.

A lot of guys who aren't having sex aren't thirsting. Do you know why? Because PRIDE matters more than sex, and having sex with a woman who considers us to be a fucking loser (and I know MANY women who sleep with fucking LOSERS) doesn't interest us. SELF-ESTEEM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sex. EVERY FUCKING TIME. The irony is, this sense of pride and self-denial is considered 'misogynist' by some people, and yet, if a woman says "I'm going to be single/deny myself sex" it's seen as a form of 'empowerment'. *sigh* Talk about double-standards.

We AREN'T all Harvey Weinsteins. We aren't all happy to be FAT, UGLY, SLIMY, INADEQUATE PIGS (and yes, I called a Jewish man a 'pig'. Anyone got a problem with that?!? 😠 He IS a fucking pig for all the women he ABUSED!), who have sex with women who are better than us. Some of us still believe that affection should be EARNED, and that women shouldn't sleep with us out of sympathy/pity, or in Weinstein's case, out of fear (which I suppose parallels with Boswer in this film). Men should be STRONG, HANDSOME, VIRILE, CHIVALROUS, DASHING, CHARMING, COMPETENT and ADMIRABLE. If a woman doesn't FIRST respect me, I don't want her body.

But we're now living in an age of beta-cuck SIMPS who feel no shame in getting a sympathy-fuck. PATHETIC. 😠

I'm now off to the gym, to work on my body, like a REAL MAN does.

PS: The fact that I condemn ABUSERS, like Weinstein, and INADEQUATE SIMPS, who bring NOTHING to the table, arguably makes me a TRUE FEMINIST. So, why are people like me now seen as 'misogynists'? Because we aren't prepared to play the role of the simping loser?!? 🤷‍♂️

I actually like that idea.

Yes, she's a princess, and I'm 100% fine with that. But they're trying to have their cake and eat it.

They're trying to have a spoiled, rich woman of privilege who's ALSO capable, strong, smart, athletic and superior to the working-class and blue-collar characters. It's a bizarre and counterproductive version of 'wokeness', that ignores ALL other forms of systemic privilege, and exclusively simps for RICH BLONDE WHITE WOMEN (one of THE most powerful and privileged demographics in society).

Any form of 'feminism' that ignores intersectionality, and the privilege RICH BLONDE WHITE WOMEN, especially a frickin PRINCESS, possesses, is NO form of TRUE progressive feminism.

All this simping for RICH WHITE WOMEN is not coincidentally coinciding with a rise in hate towards Black men, Jewish people and members of the trans and gay male community.

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Stop simping for the studios and big-wig Hollywood execs/corporations.

And, yes, I will continue to use that word without shame, because I don't see why I should be forced to worship people with more power and money than me. Unlike you, I believe in equality not supremacy, and I will NOT be shamed for calling out people with more power than me.

But well done in falling hook-line-and-sinker for the capitalist/corporatist consensus. Enjoy your time playing the rat race. I've been there. It was awful. But if you enjoy prostrating yourself for powerful, abusive, arrogant, hubristic assholes who demand complete subservience, knock yourself out.

Peach doesn't exist, so your post is silly.

And I didn't say what someone like me was. Perhaps I'm weak, pathetic and inadequate. This isn't about me. My wants and needs are entirely IRRELEVANT (since I am NOT a materialist, but prefer to focus on more ideological and philosophical concerns, sex and wealth etc are an abstraction). This is a general observation about manhood.

I'm just disappointed in the lack of pride and self-esteem among men. Since we talk about 'male privilege' all the time, it seems to me that men *should be* better than women, or at least try to be better than women.

Imagine having all that 'privilege' and still coming out second best. That's NOT equality (I'm an EGALITARIAN; hardly an incel or an alt-righter, but actually much MORE progressive than all you SUPREMACISTS, whether you believe in male or female supremacy). That's supremacy. That's saying that even with all those advantages, men are still weak and useless.

If you were to give person A $100, and person B $50, and at the end of the week, person A had made only $200, but person B had made $500, clearly person B is *superior* to person A, seeing that person A started out at an advantage.

Perhaps you, as a man, are satisfied and relaxed about such a state-of-affairs, but to me, that comes across as pretty shameful and sad.

Wanting to improve oneself and not being so complacent to luxuriate in one's privileges BUT have nothing positive to show for it, is the OPPOSITE of misogyny and sexism. It's in fact, all about responsibility and duty. It's acknowledging that if one is at a systemic advantage, it stands to reason that one should do something constructive with that advantage.

What any of that has to do with 'incels' I do not know. Perhaps you could explain, or are you just using a trendy buzzword without any genuine thought or consideration as to how it remotely applies in this instance?

"... she says why she can complete the course, because she grew up in that world and already knew what the obstacles were and how they worked."

And that would have been perfectly fine and have made perfect sense, if it had not been for the unnecessary and utterly egregious line about how she mastered the course the FIRST TIME. That line was added for a reason.

Also, in the actual game, I don't recall Princess Peach being a playable character in the original platform game. Aren't you meant to rescue her in the original game? So, I'm not sure fidelity to the source material is an argument...