“If you consider yourself a fan of feminism/equality, I think this one will leave you questioning. And the question you’ll be asking is, “Why didn’t I love that? Shouldn’t I love that?”
I’ve got my answer.
I love that this version of Captain Marvel exists. I didn’t love the execution.
Kelly Sue DeConnick seems like a good person and like she’s got good ideas. I just can’t seem to mesh with her work. Which doesn’t mean it’s bad. But it doesn’t seem to be clicking with me. It seems like she’s built quite a following around a very empowering message, which is cool.
I think that, by the end, this book proffers the theory that women are as good as men at everything, but instead of showing that through narrative, it just kind of tells you, the reader, over and over. Which leaves me unsure who the book is for. It almost feels like the book was written with its potential future detractors not only in mind, but as the audience, which doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Why write a book for the people who are not going to like it? “