a new mediocrity, but we won’t arrive at any gender equity until we expect the female superheroes to be as medicore as the male superheroes
I have no dog in the fight. Either Marvel Studios — Disney — needs to get the balance of male to female superheroes closer to a 50 /50 equity, and there’s a huge fanbase of (this generation enlightened enough) males who want to see female superheroes and females who want to see female superheroes, or there isn’t and the bulk of superheroes movies should be a bunch of dudes and the argument for this supposition is your fossilized dad. Either makes some kind of sense, even as we insert the history of the comic book industry and where the glut of the adolescent male audience reading .
What I’m trying to ponder is… when I sit in the middle not all that interested in this as a controversy, and hear the applause for the first supposition and don’t necessarily know if it’s true…
… and understand, if I listed my favorite comic book movies, floating about would be Ghost World and — probably as a lark,m though the movie a weird cult following established — Josie and the Pussycats, so I’m not lacking for female protagonists…
I just understand how the superhero genre came to be defined as what it has been — and suppose that a more gender balanced comic book industry might still have the superhero genre as a bunch of damnable dudes while, you know, other genres pop into being alongside it…
and have no idea if breaking the mold means anything for feminism. (Even if I found the feminist backlash against the feminist frontlash — expressed in The Nation — on Wonder Woman highly amusing.)
And I thought Captian Marvel was a dude? Shazam and all that…
When they get around to doing a new Buffy the Vampire movie, that should be categorized as “superhero”… and it may even measure well with a superhero team composed of more females then males.