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Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Girls are pretty.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Boys are cute.

Women and men should be considered individually and not solely on the basis of their looks. :P

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

I agree but also.

Girls are pretty.

I have taken courses in women's studies and I remain shallow and bewitched by girls.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Massive difference between that and talking about them like stuff you buy in a department store.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

True.

But if you do see them meet during undergrad, they may not have picked their majors at that point.

And the Foggy you see in Episode 1 would seem to be a very different guy than his college self.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

OP ^^ more closely lines up with my thinking re: that headcanon. Wasn't intending to have him be a social activist, I just thought he would have chosen a more offbeat odd minor that based on his personality people wouldn't expect (and also assume that since he chose some of his courses just to meet girls he would have ended up in a few womens studies courses and been surprisingly into the subject, eventually forgetting/abandoning his initial intentions for taking them.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Complaining anon from below.
I'm sorry, that was harsh and misdirected. I ass-u-me'd things and you know what they say about assuming.

I like the 'came for the coeds, stayed for the course itself' idea. That could actually be a really cool prompt. Along with Foggy and the Search for a Quirky Major

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

+1
Foggy isn't the perfect, unproblematic college activist whose views line up precisely with those of an author who's likely in a whole different demographic.
I like socially conscious foggy, but (at least in the MCU) %75+ of that is pulled out of a fan's ass.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Amen.

I love Foggy too, but seriously.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously tho. Foggy took a language course because he wanted to fuck a girl.

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Okay... but Matt guessed that Foggy was taking it for that reason, which means it can't be that outrageous a thing to do. And then Foggy implies later that Matt did a similar thing re: his Spanish class. So, can we all not shit all over Foggy for being a somewhat typical 17-18 year old who makes misguided or dumb romantic decisions?

I mean, Felicity freakin' chased a guy cross-country and chose her school based on him on that show. And some people could read what Foggy did as romantic if he was maybe seeing this girl first or wanted to date her properly.

I'm not trying to be overly defensive of people with a social activist headcanon, because I do think that they're stretching a bit. But I think the people automatically taking offense based on Foggy's behaviour are also stretching a bit and reaching to make the opposite argument. It's a couple of throwaway lines from the character at a time where Foggy's supposed to be younger and lacking maturity (especially given everything else we can tell about him based on his appearance and mannerisms in those scenes).

Both arguments are perfectly valid at this point.