Don’t Give Me Toxic Masculinity in My She-Hulk Show

I had a problem with part of She-Hulk, episode 1

Cee R.
3 min readSep 5, 2022

OK, so I watched the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, and for the most part I loved it.

I mean, I loved it.

…But there is one goddamn thing that does my head in.

She-Hulk to Hulk: What the hell, man?
Gif: Via Giphy

And yes, SPOILERS for episode 1 — please NO SPOILERS for other episodes.

OK? OK.

…The stuff about whether or not Steve Rogers was a virgin. And the after-credits scene explaining he wasn’t.

WTAF Marvel?!

Don’t give me unnecessary Allocisheteronormative (i.e. assuming everyone is non-LGBTQ+,) toxic masculine b*llsh** with my She-Hulk show.

Don’t see my problem here? Lemme explain:

  • Jen’s literal crying when she thought he ‘died a virgin’ pi**ed me off — it’s not an effing disease, and Asexual people who don’t want sex, celibate people, and people who just haven’t had sex yet, are all equally valuable human beings to those who have had sex

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr

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