The Ultra-Feminist Scene from ‘She-Hulk’ Shows Disney Has Lost It – Opinion

You are no longer Disney’s audience. The company now wants to appeal to an extremely narrow group of people, who are enraged by being victimized and see another group as oppressors. If you’re hoping that Disney is going to provide any entertainment for general audiences which may include yourself, then you’re out of luck.

Case in point, there’s a new clip of Disney/Marvel’s “She-Hulk” rolling around out there, and it’s so nakedly radically feminist that it could have easily come out of 2014, just like its CGI.

You can see it below. Here is the main character, Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) telling Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) that she’s better at controlling her anger at him because she has to deal with misogyny all day long.

It’s been a rough road for Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk. He attempted suicide, and feared that he might hurt another person if he loses control. This man went into exile. The same man attacked his teammates when he became The Hulk due to the evil plans of a villain. He was enslaved on a planet to become a gladiator, unable to transform back into his human self because his alter half wouldn’t let him, then failed to stop a genocidal godlike alien in a one-on-one fight which sent him into an existential crisis, forcing his human form to fight entire armies without the strength of The Hulk, and ultimately losing again to this same alien, leading to half the universe being obliterated. After that, his beloved died on another planet. He couldn’t do anything about it.

She-Hulk’s problem is worse when men shout at her.

These writers make a terrible show. There’s no way around it. This monologue was impossible to land in the universe where main characters have to deal with universal threats that could snap off half of their existence, and are witnessing friends lose their lives in galactic wars.

Let’s take a look at how a woe-is-me speech actually can work and it comes from none other than the man she’s talking to, The Hulk. Here’s Banner explaining how he constantly lives in fear and self-loathing because of what he’s capable of but incapable of controlling.

Because he is so self-focused, it’s understandable that he feels this way. He’s a monster and he wants to stop himself but can’t. He’s bitter at the hand he was dealt and no matter who he’s with or where he goes, he always feels like he doesn’t belong.

She-Hulk, on the other hand, is brag-complaining about how she’s better at controlling her temper better than him because she faces far more adversity than he does by just being a woman. It doesn’t make sense, especially in this universe, and as such it doesn’t land. Perhaps if the response from Banner was to literally laugh in her face and tell her his own story, the show would have recovered, but we know that’s not going to happen. After all, this is Disney.

I’m convinced that the goal of Disney is no longer to attract viewers but to push a message, but I fail to see how they’re going to get people to buy into this message when it’s delivered in such a stupid way. It will only cause further division, and is being shared across the internet.

Disney’s future has certainly taken a bad turn. It may be worthwhile to cancel your Disney+ subscription. Given the latest offerings from Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar, there’s really not much left on there except for the nostalgia factor of older, better creations.

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