In The Right Hands, She-Hulk Is A Feminist Icon

…Let’s hope these are the right hands. Let’s look at the first trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney At Law

Cee R.
2 min readMay 20, 2022
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Our first She-Hulk: Attorney At Law trailer is here!

You may not know this but I am a huge She-Hulk fan — Jennifer Walters rocks! In the right hands, Jennifer is a feminist icon.

…Let’s hope these are the right hands.

Because there are a couple of things which are concerning me in this trailer -

Firstly the CGI isn’t great, let’s be honest. It just isn’t.

And secondly, some of this seems to step just a little too close to that thin line between sexy, and over-sexualised.

Jen is sexy. Sexy is fine — sexy is good. I’m more than happy for Jen to be sexy. (*fans self*)

But please, for the love of all that is holy, don’t let them over-sexualise her!

I do love the way we’re owning the ‘she’s Bruce Banner’s cousin, just accept it,’ thing!

She-Hulk is very much from the era of comics where the female-counterpart-style heroes usually had…

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Cee R.

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