“And as the lone superheroine, she becomes, narratively, inevitably,
sexualized and available. Fans can write barrels of bytes of fanfic in
which Tony Stark and Captain America have torrid sex and more torrid sex
with each other, but in the canon, homosexuality is rarely considered a
real option. And that leaves Black Widow as the one object of desire
for — well, for everyone.
She’s been paired with many other heroes because she’s the one person
there to be paired with. In a male world a woman automatically becomes,
potentially, everyone’s property. And then, the fact that she’s
structurally positioned as property to be passed around is blamed on
her. She’s the weird, aberrant, object of desire.”
Have I fallen into some strange alternate dimension?
Holy shit Respect, Playboy.
Well, not so surprising, if you know a little bit about this magazine and its history.
