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Never Forget what Steve Rogers was up against in his youth

I was just doing some nosing around on Wikipedia and found out that there was actually an International Eugenics Conference in NYC when Steve Rogers was 14 (MCU timeline) years old.  He would have already heard a lot about how he was considered unfit and unworthy of life by the Eugenics movement popular at that time.  But how much worse would that have been? 

If you think he wasn’t fully aware of the bullshit they were spouting daily, you’re dead wrong. He’d hear more than ever about how people like him should be forcibly sterilized and were nothing more than a burden on society. 14 is such an impressionable age.  I don’t know how he wasn’t ground down by that.  It shows what inner strength and determination that sickly young man had.

So goddamn right Steve Rogers knows what it’s like to be bullied by an entire social movement and how wrong the “Prevailing Wisdom” can be and how you better stand up for what you believe or the next thing you know there are concentration camps and madman running entire countries.

No wonder he hates bullies…

I HATE how the films have totally glossed over everything that has happened to him, while grounding us down with Tony and his freaking Daddy issues. It says a hell of a lot about Steve inner strength that all he’s ever wanted to do is help other people and to stand for others so they don’t get treated like he did(even when he himself was still being treated that way). I mean he grew up hearing that he basically didn’t deserve to live, even if it wasn’t something that said to his face in quite such bald terms(though I’m sure it often was, kids can be very cruel and back then there really wasn’t any “bullying awareness”, it was basically survival of the fittest and adults rarely got involved), he’d have felt it all around him. He’s struggling to survive all while hearing he’d probably be better off dead, his mother would probably be better off if he was dead.  How this affected his relationship with girls - because apparently people like him shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce, having families, are kind of less than human. Remember the young woman who was his “blind date” sneering at him like he was some bug beneath her shoe when he offered her some peanuts? But hey why address the actual issues Steve faced in the films, the issues which shaped him because he lived it, his whole life.  

(Also looking at the link both the 1921(when Steve was 3) and the 1932(when Steve was 14)  International Eugenics Conferences took place in NYC, so yeah it was around him his whole life)

“Remember the young woman who was his “blind date” sneering at him like he was some bug beneath her shoe when he offered her some peanuts?”

I sure do. I think she was meant to stand in for about 99% of the people Steve came into daily contact with at that point in his life.

And it is kind of “funny” how none of the movies since CA:TFA have even touched on the trauma of Steve’s early life.

And by funny I mean tragic, fraudulent, and bewildering.

And let’s not forget: these ideas weren’t fringe ideas at all. A good many educated scientists believed whole-heartedly in eugenics—including, most likely, the doctors Steve Rogers would have seen as a patient. Sarah Rogers must have been such a lioness to protect him and keep him alive as long as she did.

Something to think about here: in the 1920s, women on public aid and children receiving treatment in public hospitals were potentially subject to deportation years after immigration. So depending on how long Sarah Rogers had been in the US, she would have had reason to be worried beyond just pride and work ethic about keeping herself and her son out of the system. And in the pre-antibiotic era, children would have been strongly discouraged from touching or associating with children who were visibly ill - things like diptheria, scarlet fever, measles, and rubella had up to a 20 percent fatality rate, and that’s leaving out other health complications (Steve’s pre-serum complaint list is extremely suggestive of having survived a very bad scarlet fever episode; it could also have been tubercular in nature since he would have been exposed by caring for his mother.) Steve’s mother’s profession could have made her valuable in her community - or a pariah, if the neighbors were worried about her bringing infection home from the TB ward. 

Yes, with the attitude towards sickness and “unfitness” in that era, it’s safe to say that Steve Rogers grew up lonely and almost entirely friendless.  No wonder Bucky means the world to him!

As much as this is all making me wibbly about Steve, I’m finding it harder and harder to not get really pissed that a bigger deal wasn’t made of Sarah Rogers in the MCU. What the hell, she has to have been an amazingly strong woman and such a hugely positive influence. She sacrificed so much and worked so damn hard in a society biased against her, all while teaching her only child important values and shaping him into the incredible person he grew up to be. She and Steve must have been so close, even with how busy she was. What an incredible, devoted parent. Why has the MCU barely even mentioned her?

Good fucking question.

It is an absolute disgrace that after 2 Captain America movies plus that fake one and 2 Avengers movies, we’ve never had a single scene with her in it.  We’ve never even gotten to hear Steve TALK about his mother when she had to be the biggest influence he ever had.

That’s the incontrovertible proof that CA:CW was not a Captain America movie.  It featured Tony’s mother but not Steve’s.

It should also be mentioned that the eugenics mindset was so widespread at the time that premature babies typically weren’t considered worthy of life. In fact, the only means of survival preemies had in NYC at the time was a sideshow attraction at Coney Island (the same Coney Island Steve mentions going to with Bucky).

The Infantorium was a facility run by Dr. Martin Couney, an obstetrician and early pioneer of neonatal care. The facility charged guests 25 cents to view preemie babies in specially designed incubators, and Dr Couney encouraged the nurses caring for the babies to take them out and cuddle them in front of audiences. Dr Couney didn’t charge parents for their child’s care, since the entry fee from guests covered the expense, allowed the nurses to be payed a decent wage, and enabled the exhibit to travel across the country. Dr Couney took the exhibit on tour to try and change public perception of premature birth, and tried to donate his incubators to local hospitals when a fairground closed, but none were interested. Medical journals at the time condemned his efforts, saying the preemies would pass on their “deficiencies, deformities, and vices” to the next generation. The Coney Island exhibit was open from 1903 to around 1943, and incubators wouldn’t become common in hospital maternity wards until after Dr. Couney’s death in 1950.

There’s no evidence that Steve Rogers was born prematurely, but there’s also no evidence that he wasn’t, and quite frankly it’d be just another in a very long line of hard-knocks if he had been. All this to say: assuming Steve Rogers was born prematurely, his only means of survival would’ve been as a sideshow attraction, and his feeling like a dancing monkey could very well have been with him FROM BIRTH.

Nigeria is once again the most deadly nation in the world for Christians 💔 9,814 deaths so far

Ethiopia ,sudan, the congo, and so many more like Syria and Russia are countries where Christians are murdered .

I was surprised to see Russia on the list because I didn't think they still did that .

I was obviously wrong .

Please pray for the Christians who are being slaughtered all over the world .

Nobody seems to cover this or even care about this 😞

The Christians in India are also being persecuted and it is horrible

The Christians in India have had their houses set on fire ,extreme violence , pushed out of society .

Christians are all one family so we should care when other Christian are being persecuted or worse .

Also

Nigeria

Syria

Sudan

India

The Congo

Haiti

Ethiopia

Afghanistan

Iran

Pakistan

So many more countries 💔

All these countries persecute Christians 💔

Christians are suffering everywhere 🙏 😭

They should've let Louie keep this gerbil for longer than just one comic, the Duck kids deserved to have a silly little pet

anyways Rat Boy Louie appreciation

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them

Prayer request: My dad is battling in hospital

Hi everyone,

I am not active anymore the last few years. So many things have changed in my life, good and bad. I miss the community of tumblr very much.

I was really active on tumblr when I was 19 to 23 years old, but then my life became so complicated that I couldn’t continue this blog. I am keeping it as a reminder of these beautiful years!

I would kindly ask you to pray for my dad that is battling pneumonia in the hospital. Things are crucial right now that’s why I am asking for your prayers. Every time I used to ask for your prayers in the past, everything was fine, the power of prayers is so important.

Please keep my dad Toni in your prayers, please. Every small prayer could make the difference. I am so scared about my dad, even though I am quite old but I think always these situations will be scary.

He is the best man in the world and so young, my daddy, and I love him so much. Please pray that God will give him healing and more time to be around my mom, me and his grandchild.

Thank you, everyone. I hope all of you stay safe! God bless you all!

:C

I’m so fucking sick of AI

You're right actually, this was his reaction to the concept of ai art

genuinely wheezing laughing at this description of dicken's awful pet with lead poisoning

important thing i forgot to mention: i looked this up bc adam read a thing about how dicken's pet was an inspiration for poe's "the raven" and we were like "well thats not true" but now that ive looked it up, i believe it

Yep! Dickens cited Grip as inspiration for the talking raven in his novel Barnaby Rudge, and Poe was one of its earliest critics (literary critic here being a career title, poe quite liked the work), and he spent time in his review discussing how raven could have been utilized to a stronger effect. Some time later, he used that concept in The Raven.

Dickens was distraught at Grip's passing and had him preserved. He currently resides in the US, in the Free Library of Philadelphia's rare books archive in Pennsylvania and can be visited with appointment.

@hydrofelicity Good stranger, pray do not hide this gem amongst the tags

I love her

a lot of people on tumblr and Ao3 seem to think Christianity (mainly Catholicism) is just a cool and sexy esthetic narrative force to make your characters guilty and repressed and I'm just like...

hey what about the grace? the grace of God? the grace God gave specifically so we wouldn't need to be guilty and repressed? God's grace? that grace? do they have that grace?

The pro-choice worldview is inherently opposed to human rights. If you have to be something in addition to human (ie, conscious, of a certain age, able-bodied, wanted) to have rights, you do not have human rights. You have rights in accordance with certain accidents about yourself, which are all completely arbitrary.

Either all humans are people or humans do not inherently deserve rights.