*yawn*
This is a stupid idea. Making the Falcon the new Captain America I’m ok with, but this is stupid. Marvel has always had really strong female characters. Wasp was the captain of the Avengers for a long time, and in the X-men, at least old school X-men, you have Jean Grey (Phoenix), Shadowcat, Storm, Rogue, Psylocke, Mystique, Emma Frost...
How about they just write good stories and not crap that is just a vehicle for them to draw woman with enormous boobs in string bikinis running around with swords.
*yawn*
I think that all that comic book crap only affects the “adult children” in the 18 - 55 age group.
Part of the problem with nerd culture becoming popular culture is that nerd news is big now but people commenting on it know nothing of the history of these nerdy stories. This isn’t the first time Thor has become a woman. He’s even been a frog and an alien. Owing to how they structured the Thor powers to work (they come with the hammer) body swapping Thor has been a common plot. Sometimes played for comedy, sometimes played for drama, sometimes played for an obvious lack of ideas in the writing room. And like convenience store burritos this too shall pass.
What if Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor had found the hammer of Thor?
Were a radio station to plug a band on a label owned by the station without disclosing the conflict of interest, they would be subject to fines.
Funny how it's okay in the television world.
just walk away
Tranny-thor
Stupid. And a bit of an insult to those of us of Scandinavian extraction.
So, rewrite centuries of culture instantaneously for personal politically correct gratification? LOSE/LOSE...and they will lose. $$$...
To paraphrase a popular FR theme, Conor Mac Nessa would hit it.
(ducking to avoid incoming flak)
Read this on twitter yesterday: Disney owns Marvel.Marvel owns Thor. Thor is now a woman. Odin is Thor’s father. Odin is a King. Thor is a Disney Princess.
What about Wonder Woman?
I guess she doesn't get a mention because she doesn't fit the narrative
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I thought The View already owned Thor.
why do you have to attrasct’more women?
seriously? why is this an imperative?
you know, nobody’s out there trying to get more men to buy purses. or hello kitty parephenalia.
it isn’t a moral imperative that we must have more women in everything, or more men in everything. just for the sake of percentages or having numbers that libtards perceive as somehow representing equality and fairness.
if so, we must set govt money aside for a lot more male nurses and male lacrosse coaches.
Hmmm. So the actors in the Marvel movies are slowly beginning to back out of future movies. Strangely, at the same time, Marvel is making changes to the gender and race of characters... which will probably require recasting them. I wonder...
Back in the day I remember one female comic book character that had no male counterpart and was very successful—The Old Witch horror comic character.
Seems like much ado about nothing. Who cares what comics teen boys read or teen girls don’t read.
I’m much more interested in the change in the characters in novel fiction for adults in the thriller, spy, mystery and action genres. It seems as though the growing trend in hero protagonists as written today by authors are female. Hard boiled, dead shots, martial artists and all around tough ladies who can also use their feminine wiles and instincts to outwit the baddies. (I wonder why there isn’t a similar interest in female villains and criminal masterminds) Sometimes these ladies are assisted by a male sidekick. Really? How realistic is this?
I’m told this is deliberately designed to widen the market for these genres to include more women readers—but the last I heard, the overwhelming market for these genres is still men. Are books sales in these genres falling because people don’t read any more or because people don’t want to read gender driven drivel?