A Finely Taylored perspective.

razorbelle:

airagorncharda:

thefrogpresidentisnude:

themarvelsofcomics:

tell me again about how peggy carter never taught steve rogers how to fight?

you

clearly

aren’t

paying

enough

attention

dear

What I love about this in an odd way is that all of these fighting techniques tend to be used by smaller and weaker people. In the first two: you get them off balance, take them by surprise. In three and four: incapacitating someone so they can’t continue to harm you. Five and six: again, surprise and using nearby objects because if they can’t get to you, they can’t hit you. Finally, the last two: overturn their center of gravity, get them off balance, get them to fall.
These are all things Steve should have been taught before he went standing up to bullies and they are all things that Peggy Carter made sure he knew when he was big enough to keep bullies from hurting other people.

She taught Steve before he was big. She didn’t know (and if she had an idea, she definitely didn’t know for certain) that he was ever going to get big. She taught little Steve Rogers how to fight, because everyone else at basic training treated his presence like a joke, and because she was hands down the most qualified.

Or course Steve already knew how to fight, but he knew how to fight like a big muscular person, which he wasn’t. Most of his knowledge of fighting came from being hit by other people, by bigger people, by men. You can bet Bucky tried to teach him, but Bucky was big and strong and not qualified to know what would work best for STEVE.

Peggy Carter taught Steve to fight within his abilities, within his limitations, USING his size to his advantage. Be fast, be resourceful, bend your knees and get low and use their momentum against them, and when it gets serious fight dirty.

Peggy Carter taught Steve Rogers to fight like a woman, and that is why he always fucking wins.

This commentary is the greatest fucking thing.

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laylainalaska:

omnicat:

jabletown:

my favorite thing in the world may be hayley atwell’s movement choices for peggy carter

peggy carter walks not with grace but with unrepentant swagger

peggy carter doesn’t fight light and fast she fights like there’s nothing more important than dragging you down to hell

she’s slow and straight backed and lets the power ride on her shoulders like there’s no problem she hasn’t ever solved with a right cross

i’m so in love you don’t even know

case

in

point

Y E S

I really need to write up some of the meta that’s been kicking around in my head for awhile on Peggy’s physicality, the way she fights, her violence, just … the there-ness of her. In a world where female-ness tends to go along with a sort of fetishization of smallness and lightness (physical and emotional) – in the media and in real life – I dearly love how Peggy is solid. She is not short or tiny, and it’s not just her basic physical shape, it’s the way she makes a Peggy-shaped space wherever she goes. She is completely unapologetic about existing and about taking up as much space as she needs to.

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