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It's a pretty shitey comic, anyway; I think certainly, with the exception of Namor, the characters are portrayed as fairly inveterate sexists - it doesn't seem uncharacteristic, true, given the sweaty testosterone world of the Marvel superhero but really... did we need Mr. Fantastic and Doctor Strange just about telling us the Clea was a, well, I imagine 'bitch' would've been the end of that sentence? It casts a fairly unsightly pallor on the latter particularly, which is a shame because he's a wonderful character normally. Older men (Strange looks, like, 55) and many younger men do speak like that, I suppose, but really the exercise... these guys are supposed to be brightly coloured superheroes, you know? Not fucking crabby old men who resent women.
God knows how that aspect is supposed to relate to the hamfistedly-handled Marvel Boy plot, too. Please just leave him alone, really. Carla Hewitt covers this all pretty thoroughly, for anyone interested, but really it's just another one of things mainstream comics do that makes you feel scooped-out, like an empty ice-cream tub. It's particularly disappointing given Bendis evident ability, certainly at one point, to write good female characters that none actually appear but he's on a bit of a roll with the WiR'ing of Lindy Reynolds last week. |
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