Woker Than Thou
Lifted from the comments because… well, apparently, this is where we are now as a culture:
You see, it’s not enough for a blockbuster film to feature lots of heroic women being no less feisty and capable than their male counterparts, or for said film to end with a call for help to a cosmically powerful female superhero. No, these ass-kicking female characters must also have certain woke-approved hairstyles. Which in fact at least four of them do. But that doesn’t count, somehow. Because what matters is contriving an excuse, however slim and improbable, for some feigned indignation. And the words “gender fascism.”
Dr Niemietz’s explanation of virtue signalling as a positional good.
Absolutely.
The low point for me was the SJW hissy fit at Black Widow’s grief she couldn’t have children in Ultron. Because for some reason this very real grief that millions of women (and men) encounter is not something an empowerful womyn is allowed to have.
the SJW hissy fit at Black Widow’s grief she couldn’t have children
Which says more about the pretensions and insecurities of those doing the hissing than anything about the character.
The Romanov-Banner romance, on the other hand, was a bit of a shambles.