Why Was Letitia Wright Dragged More Than ‘Ant-Man’ Star Evangeline Lilly?

[celja]

why was letitia wright dragged more than ‘ant-man’ star / anti-vax marcher evangeline lilly even though she did so much less? https://t.co/hLfANw3jpe
- Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) February 18, 2023

Rolling Stone takes a look at why Letitia Wright has gotten more backlash for her anti-vaccine comments than her Marvel colleague Evangeline Lilly.

Comments

[witchyspice]

I mean we know for a fact this is racism, misogynoir, and as ALWAYS yt women getting away with a lot more (especially when you take into account that weird ass THR article) but also, and I mean this with all the disrespect I can, no one is checking for Evangeline the same way

[ponyboy]

i also think letitia also amplified homophobic and transphobic views also had something to do with it as well.

(also that lucifer tweet. i scream every time.)

[witchyspice]

yeah from what I remember the video Letitia shared was a combo of “oof really?” opinions but it’s also rich that this fucking weirdo went to a whole ass rally to support her “opinion” and it was CRICKETS

[syvlie0o0]

Yeah, the video she shared wasn't just anti-vaxx, but the "pastor" in it was also saying extreme homophobic and transphobic crap.

[doriiansz]

🤔 what could it be?

[andwefight]

racism, but also because letitia is actually in movies that people watch

[queenursula]

Yeah people weren’t even trying to hide their racism on this. Letitia was constantly getting dragged and attacked by the media (as she said, she was even being compared to men accused of sexual abuse) whereas I heard almost nothing about Evangeline Lilly during the press tour aside from that post from earlier.

[syvlie0o0]

Well most of it is that Letitia was actually someone that people cared about playing a character that people cared about? So they were way more let down when she started spouting religious extremist psychobabble? Obviously racism comes into play, but don't act like people are checking for Kate like they are for the woman who played Shuri.

It's the exact same thing when people are all "why are you dragging [x woman] more for doing the same thing as [x man]???? Well duh, because we expect men to be shitty, so when a woman does something dumb as fuck it stings more.