Is it painfully woke now to notice that a superhero movie stars a woman who doesn’t look like a supermodel ? There is the toxic fanboy community on the other side of that coin who get themselves into a right froth just over that.
Nah, just giving background as they review films from the unashamedly white liberal identity politics standpoint. Its kind of their thing.
I assume you mean Pop Culture Happy Hour, one of many NPR podcasts ? The reason why they come from a (white) liberal standpoint is because of the three main presenters (who no doubt are socially liberal) one is a woman and the other a gay man and I’d say representation in pop culture matters to them personally. They also have guest reviewers on who almost always are people if colour who run other NPR programmes and podcasts, so even the “white” is not that correct. On this podcast Captain Marvel was discussed by a gay man, a Latin-American woman and an Asian-American woman.
I'm not hugely into superhero films and generally try to avoid the comic book fanboys output after the shit they pulled after the orphanage fire that was BvS.
So woke they judge a movie by the perceived conventional beauty of the female lead?
On the whole I really like the MCU films, there only are about two or three which are real clunkers. They get interesting directors and writers in, artists who often tend to work in indie and more character based movies. The DCU films on the other hand so far have mostly been terrible because initially the entrusted them to Zach Snyder who I think is an awful director. They are now learning from the MCU and since Wonder Woman, which was like an OKish MCU film, they’ve started to take a similar approach.
So woke they complained First Men was too white Male, although they did concede it was hard to get around this with the source material
I quite liked Aquaman- it was raised by the sheer bonkersness of it. As Kermode pointed out, any film with an octopus playing the bongos and people riding about on harnessed sharks is worth a watch.
Spider-man Homecoming is in my top three MCU movies, Tom Holland is fantastic and I like that everything is on a more personal scale. Michael Keaton is a great villain too Ruffalo is great too, glad they replaced Norton and would be happy to see a Hulk movie with him. Haven’t seen Aquaman yet but heard it’s fun.
They did not judge her by that. A female reviewer made the point that while Brie Larson is certainly attractive, she looks more like a real person than the women who've so far played the most high profile female superheroes in these films, like Gal Gadot or Scarlett Johansson. Larson also isn’t required to wear a costume which objectifies her. The reviewer has a point, lets not pretend that someone like Gal Gadot doesn't also get cast for her beauty to draw in the boys. It's been like you can only justify a a female superhero lead of a multi-million franchise, if she's also insanely sexy. Brie Larson however is more like a female version of Paul Rudd, certainly good looking, but not unattainably so.
Sexism is about women not wanting to be judged by their looks but by their capabilities and it’s hardly news that superhero comics have long has a sexism problem. Let’s not even get into what you are into.
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a little dissonant.
You are well liked here, so everybody politely looks in the other way every time you start ejaculating images of highly sexualised, prepubescent looking cartoon girls. Lets not push it by trying to score points over what a Latin-American, feminist journalist has to say on the issue of objectifying women in regard to a comic book adaption.
It's like an angel had a baby with a pirate.
