Columnist MonicaHesse watched 21 Marvel movies this month — and witnessed a decade of progress for women
In “Avengers: Endgame,” Black Widow has a healthy, respectful and platonic relationship with her male colleague Hawkeye, and it feels like a progressive breakthrough. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist April 24 at 11:04 AM In the past 14 days, I have watched Black Widow break a dozen bad guys’ necks using only the strength of her inner thighs.
Condensing the most sweeping pop cultural movement of the past decade into a few weeks reveals a lot about how far we’ve come. On screen as well as off. So imagine the joy, then, of “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” which came out in 2015. Pepper Potts is now the head of Stark Industries. And Scarlett Johansson, i.e. Black Widow, has not only a healthy platonic friendship with her male colleague Hawkeye but also a friendship with his wife and kids. Sexy female assassins don’t necessarily have designs on your husband; sometimes they’re just Auntie Assassin.
In “Ant-Man” , Hope Van Dyne discovers her father has finally made a superhero suit for her so she can be more than Paul Rudd’s trainer: “It’s about damn time,” she says. This happened, and the theater in which I saw it erupted in cheers. Apparently, I don’t remember watching Tony Stark threaten to fire his assistant, but I’ll remember when a packed audience lost their minds at the novelty of this fight scene: It had taken 19 movies, but finally there was a screenful of competent woman warriors all working together.
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