Growing up, I never had to search very hard to find superheroes that looked like me. In comic book stores, at the multiplexes and on television, the landscape was overwhelmingly filled with white, male adventurers who donned colorful costumes to escape their humdrum lives as seemingly ordinary (and often ostracized) citizens.
Their cries that the series is “too feminist” or, stranger still, “anti-male” are part of the same irrational reaction that recently greeted Mad Max: Fury Road’s mighty Furiosa (Charlize Theron) — who was accused of overshadowing Tom Hardy’s titular character — as well as Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters movie, with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones inheriting the proton packs previously worn by the boys’ club of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson.
Their cries that the series is “too feminist” or, stranger still, “anti-male” are part of the same irrational reaction that recently greeted Mad Max: Fury Road’s mighty Furiosa (Charlize Theron) — who was accused of overshadowing Tom Hardy’s titular character — as well as Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters movie, with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones inheriting the proton packs previously worn by the boys’ club of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson.
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