ronniereyes:

i don’t care how much you love valkyrie. using her existence as a reason to talk about how much you hate jane is misogynistic.

before i get hate for this, let me explain.

yes, valkyrie is important. having a black woman being a lead character and a warrior and a love interest and bisexual (although it was never confirmed on screen) is important. i’m not saying that at all! i’m also not saying that valkyrie shouldn’t exist and we should just have jane.

what i’m saying is that it’s possible to have both, and the thing that pissed me off about ragnarok was that it spat in the face of that notion. it’s possible to have two leading ladies with vastly different abilities and personalities. because that’s what women are! having more physical prowess doesn’t make you better and being smarter doesn’t make you better. but the mcu fandom acts like now that we have valkyrie, who is clearly (sarcasm) better because she is a more skilled fighter than jane, it’s okay to completely forget about jane and sif (and darcy and frigga, for that matter). it’s now okay to say “oh jane wasn’t that great of a character i don’t like her but i love valkyrie so i’m #woke” and that’s not okay. jane is a BRILLIANT scientist who has won a nobel prize and she was the first female scientist in the mcu as well as the only female scientist with a recurring role until black panther! (i could talk about how fandom forgets maya hansen and helen cho too, but that’s for another post.)

jane is a character who gets an unfair amount of hate because she’s not a fighter. fandom decided she wasn’t a ~strong female character~ and now takes every opportunity to shit on her. jane and thor shouldn’t have to be romantically involved for her to get to be on screen. jane could’ve used her brain to help in ragnarok. they needed to escape sakaar, right? well that’s kinda jane’s specialty! and instead they just wrote her out with a disrespectful, throwaway line, and made a joke about an anus.

they could’ve easily picked up jane on earth when they visited benadryl cumberbatch and consulted with her. valkyrie still could’ve been the warrior and the love interest. but no, we can’t have more than two women in a movie can we? it’s not like the first two thor movies had FOUR leading women. saying “oh we have valkyrie now” doesn’t make it okay to disregard established female characters. your misogyny is showing.

i’d go into the fact that valkyrie isn’t even given a goddamn name in ragnarok, but i’m too damn tired. fandom thinks jane is just thor’s love interest played by natalie portman. now that thor has another love interest and natalie portman doesn’t want to come back, they think it’s okay to hate her. no, it’s not. just recast the part (like you’ve done with rhodey and bruce) and let her be a scientist. that’s it.