Wrong on the Internet, or "Clearly, We Did Not Watch the Same Movie"

Recently, via metanews, I read an article which was about one-third correct and two-third completely wrongwrongwrong (bearing in mind that my definition of "wrongwrongwrong" and others' definition of same may vary):

How Superheroes Girlfriends Burned Me Out On Love Stories


The gist of the relevant part of the article for those who don't want to click links: Pepper Potts's role in the third Iron Man movie consists solely of providing emotional support to Tony Stark, making her yet another example of fictional women who exist only to serve as rewards for/aid in the self-actualization of fictional men.

( If anything, the Tony/Pepper relationship IM3 struck me as pretty much the exact opposite of that description )

*Which is much better than what struck me about their relationship in IM2, which was "Why the hell does Pepper want a relationship with Tony after he's spent the entire movie being, from her perspective, a total dick," but the first rule of Iron Man movie fandom is that we do not talk about IM2.

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The months of purgatory that was our mortgage refinance is finally over! We closed on Tuesday.

(I swear to god, I spent longer being screwed around by Citibank than my mother spent being pregnant with me. And if not, it's only by about two weeks, because we started the refinance process in January.)