Marvel Actress Evangeline Lilly Comes Out As Anti-Vaxx To Groans Of Social Media
Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly, who plays the Wasp character in the Ant-Man series of films, has come to the forefront of social media after announcing she attended a Washington D.C. anti-vaccination mandate rally, coincidentally the same one where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared vaccines to the Holocaust earlier this week.
"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," Lilly wrote in an Instagram post.
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.
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’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems.
I was pro choice before COVID and I am still pro choice today.
While Lilly's list of things she's against is unobjectionable, the sentiment shared by several social media users as they learned of the Ant-Man star's post was that none of the things she mentioned compare to life-saving vaccines that could potentially hasten the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
evangeline lilly being antivax is super disappointing as someone who is in my third year of medical school and just realised I confused my textbook for a dvd of ant-man
— guy (@guymrdth) January 27, 2022
I find it funny that both Letitia Wright and Evangeline Lilly are supposed to be playing smart characters. https://t.co/Ww8vhoMrIO
— stephen (@namesjayYT) January 27, 2022
Seeing why Evangeline Lilly is trending pic.twitter.com/9CqTx1PVzY
— Jalen Reeves 😇 (@GTCubsEagles10) January 27, 2022
In her Instagram post, Evangeline Lilly referred to herself as “pro choice.” This is a very common (and disgusting) rhetorical trick among anti vaxxers -- by co-opting the language of the repro rights movement, they think they can make their agenda more palatable to the left. pic.twitter.com/7nPo8iTf8F
— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson) January 27, 2022
First Letitia Wright and now Evangeline Lilly… 🤦♂️ This is disappointing. As some of the few lead MCU heroines, they could use their platforms to be role models, especially for kids, but instead, they choose this nonsense. Sigh… https://t.co/S4EUPRpQ8o
— Brad Shankar (@bradshankar) January 27, 2022
Lilly joins Letitia Wright as another Marvel actress who has frustrated some fans with their takes on vaccinations. In 2021, Wright reportedly caused filming of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to stall as she refused to get vaccinated. It is unclear if Lilly is vaccinated herself or simply against mandated vaccinations, but this is not the first time she has come under fire for her takes on the pandemic.
In March 2020, she said she'd refuse to social distance "in the name of a respiratory flu," though she later apologized for the incident.
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