<p>Marvel actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-actress-evangeline-lilly-comes-out-against-vaccine-mandates-nobody-should-ever-be-forced-to-inject-their-body" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evangeline Lilly</a> has spoken out against what she described as the recent push to make men less masculine and women less feminine.</p>
<p>The 43-year-old took to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr1NXwcS-ga/">Instagram</a> accusing Hollywood of pushing a double standard where masculine men are trashed, but women who exhibit the same traits are considered &#8220;cool.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why are we only applauding masculinity in women and [villainizing] it in men?&#8221; Lilly wrote. &#8220;And why are we only applauding femininity in men and debasing it in women? Why can&#8217;t we just allow for all of it?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why do we feel the need to vilify a man wearing s***-kicker boots, driving a pick-up truck who&#8217;s not afraid to punch someone in the face, but if they were a woman, they would be the epitome of cool?&#8221; she added. &#8220;Why is a man who loves make-up, cries easily and stays at home to tend to the domestic responsibilities valiant, but a woman who does the same is pathetic?&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">DOUBLE STANDARDS?: &quot;Ant-Man&quot; actress Evangeline Lilly is speaking out against what she believes is society’s current push to feminize men and masculinize woman. <a href="https://t.co/GED9g6QLvD">https://t.co/GED9g6QLvD</a> <a href="https://t.co/SU3wuxk94N">pic.twitter.com/SU3wuxk94N</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1654625800384049152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; star said it&#8217;s time we return to the old rule, &#8220;Do not judge&#8230;Let each be who they are and let us teach grace and charity above all things.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lilly concluded her lengthy post by writing: &#8220;Grace and charity are cornerstones of a thriving society and should not be abandoned. We need them like we need democracy, justice and peace. And, without them, we can&#8217;t have democracy, justice or peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>She made headlines earlier this year after saying both Disney and Marvel supported her after she protested against vaccine mandates in her home country of Canada, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/evangeline-lilly-reveals-disney-marvel-supported-controversial-vaccine-mandate-views">Fox News</a> noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had direct conversations with them that I have instigated, and they&#8217;ve always said, &#8216;That&#8217;s not our business. That&#8217;s not for us to tell you how to live your life or what opinions to have,'&#8221; the actress said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;And I actually even got a really supportive phone call from Peyton Reed [Marvel director] at one point and just saying like, &#8216;Just so you know, there&#8217;s some rumors spreading about Marvel ditching you or canceling you. And that didn&#8217;t come from Marvel and that didn&#8217;t come from us, so just ignore that,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-is-our-job-as-the-people-to-hold-our-leadership-accountable-marvel-actress-begs-trudeau-to-sit-down-with-truckers">&#8216;It Is Our Job As The People To Hold Our Leadership Accountable&#8217;: Marvel Actress Begs Trudeau To Sit Down With Truckers</a></strong></p>


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<p>Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sit down with the truckers who spent weeks protesting his COVID-19 related mandates and restrictions.</p>
<p>Lilly, who is Canadian herself, said that the government should be listening to the concerns of the people rather than using force to drown them out and <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/blackfacehitler-trends-as-justin-trudeaus-government-cracks-down-on-truckers/">shut them down</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly (known for Lost and Antman) shares a heartfelt plea with Trudeau to sit face to face with the truckers and hear their requests,&#8221; David Cheyne (@awakecanada) tweeted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly (known for Lost and Antman) shares a heartfelt plea with Trudeau to sit face to face with the truckers and hear their requests. <a href="https://t.co/ZtsiQFBVFf">pic.twitter.com/ZtsiQFBVFf</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Awake Freedom TV (@davidcheyne) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidcheyne/status/1494780019712958467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Lilly began by saying that Trudeau had a responsibility to hear what Canadians were saying, &#8220;even those who you disagree with.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Treating them with prejudice, suspicion, and illegal repression is not care,&#8221; she continued, adding, &#8220;Protesting something that deeply, deeply concerns you in our society is not terrorism. It is the civic duty of every Canadian. It is our job as the people to hold our leadership accountable if they are infringing on our inalienable rights, if we suspect that they have become corrupted or compromised in any way — or simply, if we think they&#8217;re wrong in monumental decisions they are making on behalf their people.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But you are treating my brothers and sisters, your constituents, like terrorists without ever speaking to their leadership,&#8221; Lilly went on to call on Trudeau to listen to the people instead of simply cracking down on them. &#8220;There are no riots. This is not a violent protest. There is only a mass of deeply concerned citizens at your doorstep who you refuse to acknowledge for what they are: your people.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;To everybody listening, everybody,&#8221; Lilly continued. &#8220;People who disagree with the mandates and people who agree with them. If you think that the person on the other side of this divide is your enemy, please take time to get to know them. Listen with an open heart to what they&#8217;re really saying. And remember that we&#8217;re all humans who get scared and feel pain, and most of us are just trying our best to build the brightest future for the next generation and the happiest, most fulfilling, most peaceful and healthy today.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t let the press brainwash you into division and hatred,&#8221; Lilly concluded, noting that &#8220;the antidote to prejudice is knowledge&#8221; and encouraging people to listen to each other rather than what was being put out by media: &#8220;Listening is the only way out of the ideological mess.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lilly sparked backlash earlier for taking a public stand against vaccine mandates, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/twitter-outraged-over-marvel-actress-evangeline-lilly-publicizing-stance-against-vaccine-mandates/">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Marvel star Evangeline Lilly started a social media firestorm this week when she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-actress-evangeline-lilly-comes-out-against-vaccine-mandates-nobody-should-ever-be-forced-to-inject-their-body">publicly denounced</a> COVID-19 vaccine mandates.</em></p>
<p><em>Lilly had previously expressed unpopular opinions about social distancing in 2020, but now has reignited the controversy by attending a “Defeat the Mandates” rally in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The “Lost” alum shared photos from the event with her 2 million followers on Instagram.</em></p>
<p><em>The caption read in part, “I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will… under any threat whatsoever. This is not the way.”</em></p>
<p><em>The Canadian actress wrote, “This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems.”</em></p>
<p><em>It didn’t take long for the backlash against Lilly to start. Twitter users expressed their desire to see the Marvel alum canceled and removed from any future projects with the studio.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p>On Friday, Buzzfeed published an incredibly misleading <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilymaeczachor/marvel-stars-seemingly-call-out-evangeline-lilly-anti-vax">article</a> about actress Evangeline Lilly attending last week’s rally in D.C. protesting vaccine mandates.</p>
<p>The article — which later notes that two of Lilly’s Marvel colleagues appear to have used social media to respond to the actress — starts off by claiming that the “Defeat the Mandates” rally was an “anti-vaccination rally.”</p>
<p>It goes on to state that Lilly “claimed immunizations against the disease that has killed millions of people worldwide since 2020 are ‘not the way’ in her social media caption.”</p>
<p>The article only quotes part of what Lilly wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don&#8217;t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems,” Evangeline wrote, after confirming she &#8220;was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty,&#8221; which is how anti-vax advocates describe opposition to COVID vaccination mandates.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>While the actress’ Instagram post is displayed in the piece, the caption isn’t shown on mobile, where, according to a 2019 Pew Research survey, a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/19/americans-favor-mobile-devices-over-desktops-and-laptops-for-getting-news/">majority</a> of Americans get their news.</p>
<p>“Americans continue to be more likely to get news through mobile devices than through desktop or laptop computers. Roughly six-in-ten U.S. adults (57%) often get news this way, compared with 30% who often do so on a desktop or laptop computer, according to a Pew Research Center survey,” Pew states.</p>
<p>The following is what Lilly write prior to what Buzzfeed quoted:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing.</em></p>
<p><em>I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of:</em></p>
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<p><em>-loss of employment</em></p>
<p><em>-homelessness</em></p>
<p><em>-starvation</em></p>
<p><em>-loss of education</em></p>
<p><em>-alienation from loved ones</em></p>
<p><em>-excommunication from society</em></p>
<p><em>…under any threat whatsoever.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Many of the comments below the Buzzfeed piece condemned Lilly.</p>
<p>“So her answer to fear is to kill my parents. Got it,” one commenter wrote.</p>
<p>Another simply called Lilly a “c***.”</p>
<p>Others slammed Buzzfeed for publishing such a misleading piece. “This article is dishonest and irresponsible propaganda. We should be able to have an honest debate without lying about people&#8217;s opinions,” wrote one person.</p>
<p>When another commenter noted the difference between Lilly’s position of being anti-mandate versus the article’s seeming assertion that the actress is anti-vaccine, several others dug in.</p>
<p>“When people are dying there is no f***ing choice. Get the F***ING vaccine and wear your F***ING masks so this s*** can be over,” replied one.</p>
<p>“Sorry, she’s still a killer,” said another.</p>
<p>As of publication, neither Marvel nor Disney have offered official comment on Lilly’s Instagram post. Lilly recently <a href="https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/ant-man-wasp-kang-quantumania-wraps-filming">wrapped</a> filming for “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania,” the third film in the Marvel Ant-Man series.</p>


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<p>Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly issued an Instagram post Thursday emphasizing her stand against COVID-19 vaccine mandates.</p>
<p>Lilly, who voiced her support for freedom at the start of the pandemic, said she attended a rally in Washington, D.C. over the weekend &#8220;to support bodily sovereignty.&#8221;</p>
<p>The native Canadian wrote in the post that she stands with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadian-truckers-lead-freedom-convoy-to-ottawa-in-protest-of-vaccine-mandate">Canadian truckers</a> protesting vaccine mandates and &#8220;believes nobody should ever be forced to inject their body.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing,&#8221; Lilly said. &#8220;I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of: violent attack, arrest or detention without trial, loss of employment, homelessness, starvation, loss of education, alienation from loved ones, excommunication from society … under any threat whatsoever.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not the way,&#8221; the &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; actress continued. &#8220;This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was pro choice before COVID and I am still pro choice today,&#8221; she wrote, adding the hashtags: <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/medicalchoice/">#medicalchoice</a> <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/medicalfreedom/">#medicalfreedom</a> <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bodilyautonomy/">#bodilyautonomy</a><a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bodilysovereighnty/">#bodilysovereighnty</a> <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/defeatthemandatesdc/">#defeatthemandatesdc</a> <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/canadiantruckers/">#canadiantruckers</a><a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/iamwithyou/">#iamwithyou</a>.</p>
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<p>In March 2020, Lilly drew ire from Hollywood when she suggested on Instagram that she values &#8220;freedom&#8221; over the promise of supposed safety.</p>
<p>&#8220;Lilly had previously gone on her own Instagram Live to chat about how life had been going for her and her own endeavors despite the public health crisis,&#8221; an InStyle <a href="https://www.instyle.com/news/sophie-turner-shaded-evangeline-lilly-coronavirus">report</a> outlined at the time. &#8220;She called her life &#8216;#businessasusual&#8217; and recounted taking her children to gymnastics camp, after they &#8216;all washed their hands before going in.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I have two young kids,&#8221; Lilly said via Instagram. &#8220;Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives. We all make our choices.&#8221;</p>
<p>After backlash to her position from celebrities, like actress <a href="https://www.instyle.com/news/evangeline-lilly-coronavirus-apology">Sophia Turner</a>, Lilly issued an apology on the social media platform.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am writing you from my home where I have been social distancing since Mar 18th – when social distancing was instituted in the small community where I am currently living,&#8221; Lilly <a href="https://www.instyle.com/news/evangeline-lilly-coronavirus-apology">wrote</a>. &#8220;At the time of my Mar 16th post, the directives from the authorities here were that we not congregate in groups of more than 250ppl and that we wash our hands regularly, which we were doing. Two days later, those directives changed and, despite my intense trepidation over the socioeconomic and political repercussions of this course of action, PLEASE KNOW I AM DOING MY PART TO FLATTEN THE CURVE, PRACTICING SOCIAL DISTANCING AND STAYING HOME WITH MY FAMILY.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;I want to offer my sincere and heartfelt apology for the insensitivity I showed in my previous post to the very real suffering and fear that has gripped the world through COVID19,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Grandparents, parents, children, sisters and brothers are dying, the world is rallying to find a way to stop this very real threat, and my ensuing silence has sent a dismissive, arrogant and cryptic message.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;I never meant to hurt you,&#8221; Lilly closed the post. &#8220;When I wrote that post 10 days ago, I thought I was infusing calm into the hysteria. I can see now that I was projecting my own fears into an already fearful and traumatic situation. I am grieved by the ongoing loss of life, and the impossible decisions medical workers around the world must make as they treat those affected.&#8221;</p>
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Marvel Actress Evangeline Lilly Comes Out Against Vaccine Mandates: ‘Nobody Should Ever Be Forced To Inject Their Body’

<p>Actress Evangeline Lilly (&#8220;Ant-Man,&#8221; &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;) is not letting the COVID-19 pandemic get in the way of her plans. In an Instagram post on Thursday, she openly flouted social distancing despite living with a cancer-ridden father.</p>
<p>“Just dropped my kids off at gymnastics camp. They all washed their hands before going in. They are playing and laughing. #businessasusual,” said Lilly, as reported by <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/03/19/evangeline-lilly-wont-self-quarantine-values-freedom-over-her-life/">Page Six</a>.</p>
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<p>Needless to say, Lilly&#8217;s casual admission prompted curiosity among her fans.</p>
<p>“No Corona House Arrest???” asked one user.</p>
<p>“Not for this family,” replied Lilly.</p>
<p>Evangeline Lilly then described herself as &#8220;immune compromised&#8221; as she revealed herself to be living with her father, who has stage 4 leukemia.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am living with my father at the moment, who has stage four leukemia,” wrote Lilly. “I am also immune compromised at the moment. I have two young kids. Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives. We all make our choices.”</p>
<p>Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, Lilly dismissed it as a &#8220;respiratory flu&#8221; while warning against the government using this time to take control of people&#8217;s lives. She even went as far to imply some kind of conspiracy behind the virus.</p>
<p>“Where we are right now feels a lot too close to Marshall Law [sic] for my comfort already, all in the name of a respiratory flu,” she said. “It’s unnerving…Let’s be vigilant right now. And kind. Watchful and gracious — keeping a close eye on our leaders, making sure they don’t abuse this moment to steal away more freedoms and grab more power.”</p>
<p>“There’s ‘something’ every election year,” she later added.</p>
<p>While celebrities certainly have stepped up to educate the public about social distancing during the pandemic, the actress is far from the only one going about business as usual. In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis closed the beaches in response to spring breakers largely ignoring CDC guidelines.</p>
<p>“The message I think for spring breakers is that the party’s over in Florida, you’re not going to be able to congregate on any beach in the state,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-desantis-florida-spring-breakers-party-over">told Fox News</a>. “Many of the hot spots that people like to go to, whether it’s Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Clearwater Beach, are closed entirely for the time being.”</p>
<p>“The bars are closed so you’re not going to have a place to congregate there, so we would just tell those folks maybe come back next year when things are better, but that is not what we’re looking for here in the state of Florida,” DeSantis added. “Every single beach will have to abide by the CDC guidelines, no more than 10 people, you have to be socially distant, not every beach is going to remain open, but some will.”</p>
<p>U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has called upon celebrities and social media influencers to instruct their followers to take the virus seriously.</p>
<p>“What I really think we need to do … [is] get our influencers — [NBA players] Kevin Durant, Donovan Mitchell, we need to get Kylie Jenner, we need to get our social media influencers out there and helping folks understand that look, this is serious,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/surgeon-general-calls-on-celebrities-to-instruct-millennials-on-social-distancing">Adams said</a> on &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221;</p>
<p>In one <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2020/03/19/spring-break-beaches-florida-look-packed-despite-coronavirus-spread/2873248001/">terrifying video </a>that went viral on Thursday, spring breakers openly expressed flippancy in regard to the situation while being interviewed on camera.</p>
<p>“If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I’m not going to let it stop me from partying,” one spring breaker infamously said. “You know, we’ve been waiting, I’ve been waiting, for Miami spring break for a while, about two months we’ve had this trip planned. And we’re just out here having a good time. Whatever happens, happens.”</p>
<p>Regarding COVID-19&#8217;s effect on young people, recent data shows it may not be as innocuous as once believed.</p>
<p>According to The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-people.html">New York Times</a>, nearly 40% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were between the ages of 20 to 54:</p>
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<p class="css-exrw3m evys1bk0">American adults of all ages — not just those in their 70s, 80s and 90s — are being seriously sickened by the coronavirus, according to a report on nearly 2,500 of the first recorded cases in the United States.</p>
<p>The <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm?s_cid=mm6912e2_w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a>, issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that — as in other countries — the oldest patients had the greatest likelihood of dying and of being hospitalized. But of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized, 38 percent were notably younger — between 20 and 54. And nearly half of the 121 patients who were admitted to intensive care units were adults under 65, the C.D.C. reported.</p></blockquote>
<p>“I think everyone should be paying attention to this,” said Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It’s not just going to be the elderly. There will be people age 20 and up. They do have to be careful, even if they think that they’re young and healthy.”</p>
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<p>Follow the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.16.20_coronavirus-guidance_8.5x11_315PM.pdf">federal guidelines</a> on social distancing rigorously, or just take the president&#8217;s word for it:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> IG account really put this up 😂 <a href="https://t.co/7PmJBJ0S2l">pic.twitter.com/7PmJBJ0S2l</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1240708837935419395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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