MCU: 'strong female characters'
May. 12th, 2019 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruicoTo start off, I'm not a big fan, but I don't hate Marvel either.
I went to the movies with my siblings to watch Captain Marvel, and after we finished, my brother said "of course they made one of the most OP heroes a girl." I was confused, and mentioned that after the complete lack of female heroes in the other movies, it was only fair. But why did it even have to become a "of course" thing? If a male superhero was the strongest -- like they usually are -- no one would bat an eye or yell about it being performative.
It just reminded me of the last two avengers movies and their like singular little girl power scenes, as if one scene out of a whole movie could fix their issue. Let's just do one scene with the entirety of our female cast fighting together to show that we support girl power! And let's do the exact same thing in the next movie. How is that different from the one token female character in an ensemble group of men? Like, we just have to add one scene driven by mostly women, and then we've fulfilled our quota for this movie (on repeat).
I went to the movies with my siblings to watch Captain Marvel, and after we finished, my brother said "of course they made one of the most OP heroes a girl." I was confused, and mentioned that after the complete lack of female heroes in the other movies, it was only fair. But why did it even have to become a "of course" thing? If a male superhero was the strongest -- like they usually are -- no one would bat an eye or yell about it being performative.
It just reminded me of the last two avengers movies and their like singular little girl power scenes, as if one scene out of a whole movie could fix their issue. Let's just do one scene with the entirety of our female cast fighting together to show that we support girl power! And let's do the exact same thing in the next movie. How is that different from the one token female character in an ensemble group of men? Like, we just have to add one scene driven by mostly women, and then we've fulfilled our quota for this movie (on repeat).