TO BE FAIR, MARVEL HAS ALWAYS SUCKED: Milo Yiannopoulos: Female Thor Is What Happens When Progressive Hand-Wringing And Misandry Ruin A Cherished Art-Form. “This has led to some questions from comic book fans. Questions such as: will Wonder Woman turn out to be a tranny? Is the Incredible Hulk only incredible because he endured cruel fat-shaming as a teen but didn’t let his size define him? And shouldn’t Spider-Man be a gay latino? . . . What sticks in the craw of the fans I’ve spoken to about female Thor is how utterly transparent the political posturing is behind the change. There is no good literary justification for making Thor a woman, they say–and the results have been execrable. You can write intelligent satire about masculinity without making a classic masculine icon into a girl, an observation that seems to have escaped Marvel’s writers.”

With Marvel, none of this should be a surprise. They’ve always been the “look at me!/we try harder” comics imprint. That their products have done so well in pop culture of late is a poor reflection on pop culture.