If yall aren’t aware there was a recent interview Chuck Dixon did where they were talking about comics and the guy mentioned pandering to a female audience has been one of the things that have ruined comics. Third wave feminism to be exact. Dixon talked about his girls used to read comics like Archie, Little Lulu, romance comics, etc. He then mentioned that his sisters read Green Lantern because they thought Hal Jordan was cute (I can’t judge because I had every cd and now every album of Fiona Apple downloaded because I thought she was beautiful).
Some people took that to mean “see girls read comics” when he was essentially saying that if you make comics that cater to what girls/women like you can sell to them. Manga has proved this along with countless YA novels. For whatever reason Superhero comics and Sci-Fi don’t appeal to women in large numbers but that doesn’t seem to stop the IPs from sunken costs.
And I know it’s nerdy but the gender swap of Marv-ell was so idiotic and I can’t help but believe it was all because they don’t want a woman getting powers from a man. In notice this across the board where they don’t like showing heterosexual relationships but they will have a lesbian relationship.
In a short, modular scene easily edited out for broadcasting in areas such things are not allowed, of course.
They do this for a few reasons:
Most men are absolutely stupid (as evident by some of them even on this forum) who will justify it because "lesbians are hot, bro" and you see this in almost every single entertainment medium, where men will justify lesbians being in the media because "they're hot".
They can use that as a wedge to keep pushing it, forcing it into everywhere because of reason number one, and it gives them leeway to start focusing more on trans content and male homosexuality. And once people accept lesbians due to reason no. 1, then they can start putting more of the LGBT nonsense in other aspects of the property.
They have also convinced women to experiment with lesbianism by over-promoting it everywhere in media, magazines, influencers, and of course, fiction. It's extremely prevalent now in high-schools and colleges (it's thankfully not quite so bad in the U.K., but it's about one-third of college-aged women in the U.S., and even women who consider themselves "exclusively heterosexual" have regularly experimented: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844220/)
It's a pretty sinister thing, as they use it to demoralise the men and to entrap the women. Even while people don't particularly like this stuff, and obviously most women are not supporting stuff like Captain Marvel, it's in enough places where its prevalence makes it hard to ignore, and it helps continue to create that wedge in disrupting the dating market and ultimately the family unit, as one symptom among many.
Completely agree