Anonymous: MJ is a good character? I thought Gwen might be more up your alley considering MJ is just there for the male gaze while Gwen isn’t. One More Day did one good thing and that meant they would stop belittling the spiderman audience with a sex object which we do not need. I suggest you more stuff with Gwen in it. She a very good character and Emma Stone plays a very good version of her.
mj is a fantastic character.
she isnt just a sex object. i see where you come from, you’re a big gwen stan and thats okay but gwen isnt better than MJ. lets not pity the girls against each other. they’re both great. but MJ is more my cup of tea, i agree gwen was great in tasm and it made her so popular that she got her own series as spider gwen now.
but i’m going from the original comics in which i prefer mj.
Some genuine questions for the OP:
Why is she just there for the male gaze? Apart from anything else, not all the people who’ve written/drawn for her have been heterosexual males. If it’s because she’s a model and very comfortable in her body, what are you saying about real-life models? She’s been drawn in creepy, male-gazey poses sometimes (as has every Marvel female, sigh) but it’s, um, somewhat of a stretch to say that’s all she’s there for. She was part of the story even after One More Day.
Why is she a sex object? She’s seen having happy, consensual sex with Peter a lot. She’s seen in her underwear/skimpy clothing sometimes, but so is he. (So is Gwen, actually). Why isn’t Peter a sex object?
Why is she belittling the audience? Show your working. She’s an abuse survivor shown to undergo character development, work through her emotions, stop hiding her real personality, be incredibly successful career-wise, have close relationships with other women, and be one of Marvel’s most popular non-superpowered female characters. What is belittling about that? All I can come up with is “well, you know…she’s proud of her good looks and body and flirts with people and wears short skirts and stuff.” Hmmm. Sign me up for the Belittlement Brigade, in that case.
You get a C- for effort. A solid A+, though, for writing misogynistic nonsense with feminist buzzwords thrown in to disguise it.