{"id":50519,"date":"2022-08-19T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/disney-plus-she-hulk-cant-quite-meet-its-feminist-ideals-yet\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:20:44","slug":"disney-plus-she-hulk-cant-quite-meet-its-feminist-ideals-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/disney-plus-she-hulk-cant-quite-meet-its-feminist-ideals-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Plus’ She Hulk can’t quite meet its feminist ideals yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law<\/em> makes its thesis statement about 13 minutes into its first episode: When Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) tells his cousin \u2014 newly Hulked, thanks to an accident \u2014 Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany) that the triggers are anger and fear, she scoffs. \u201cThose are like the baseline of any woman just existing<\/em>\u201d It’s a point she’ll hit harder later in the episode, after weeks of training to be dexterous and zen so as to not accidentally Hulk out. As he reminds her that the most important thing in the whole world is for her to not get scared or, more importantly, angry, she hits him with the manifesto, of sorts, for She Hulk<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u201cHere’s the thing, Bruce: I’m great at controlling my anger. I do it all the time,\u201d Jen says. \u201cWhen I’m catcalled in the street, when incompetent men explain my own area of \u200b\u200bexpertise to me \u2014 I do it pretty much every day because if I don’t I will get called ’emotional’ or ‘difficult’ or I might just literally get murdered. So I’m an expert in controlling my anger because I do it infinitely more than you.\u201d <\/p>\n To demonstrate how fully in control she is, she briefly morphs into She-Hulk. Eventually, we’ll see her prove herself right, returning to the regular world and suffering her misogynistic co-worker’s snide comments with aplomb. It’s all a great win for feminism. <\/p>\n The question is: How far will \u2014 Bell<\/em> \u2014 She Hulk<\/em> go with this limited brand of feminism? <\/p>\n