Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories : Monkey See : NPR

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http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2015/05/12/404168828/black-widow-scarce-resources-and-high-stakes-stories

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This is a really good essay on the Black Widow problem in the new Avengers movie. Taken by itself, it's not actually terrible - the metaphors she represents are worth pulling into the light and talking about, and there are reasons why it has to be a female character that has to given them - but the problem is that there simply aren't enough prominent women characters in this kind of movie for us to take them in isolation. And that, I guess, feel like the most nuanced criticism one could level ...

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