the love interests of ultron

[solarbird]

I've been thinking a little about Anna's post about Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron and about Black Widow as "love interest" and the "monster" comment and Disney/Marvel's rather hideous sexism in merchandising and trying to separate out all those bits and pieces into a coherent thought

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[epawtows]

I suppose you could say that the scene in the house was reversed from the normal trope in another fashion: Which one of them was half-dressed, and which was fully clothed?

[solarbird]

...I didn't even think about that. True.

[cdk]

Finally saw the movie. Agree with just about everything you've written.

The most terrible thing, to me, is that Bruce basically has *no* agency throughout the entire movie, but we're *so* conditioned to think man = agency that tons of people manage to read him into a trope that requires him to be the one with agency.

[solarbird]

Yeah, exactly. See again all the reviewers who said Black Widow didn't do anything in the first film except stand around and look pretty.