@spiraldrawsstuff submitted:

I saw this on twitter and thought it relevant to your blog.

There’s so much in this casting call that we’ve talked about indirectly before:

• Casting so that women are, at most, as big as the smallest men
• The strange belief that fictional characters and actresses cast by executives get to decide the costuming (also here)
• The assumption that sexy men are in a movie means everything is automatically fine and equal (also here)
• The generic female character production line and how it carries on into merchandise and costumes.

And this was a movie where I was kind of kind of excited about because it had Gamora in it!

– wincenworks

It’s one of those cases that disappoints, but doesn’t surprise me. Especially since with the first movie, not unlike with Avengers, they reduced female team member count to one, despite there being more women in the comics.

For all the praise Marvel Cinematic Univese gets, it still has a really hard time letting go of tired tropes and conventions, like the Smurfette Principle and Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty.

And we should be always pointing that out, for as long as it remains the status quo.

~Ozzie