[Trigger warning:
discussion of sexual violence, consent issues, and rape. NSFW language]
All this talk of Marvel’s
Thor: The Dark World (2013) inspired me to break out my Blu-ray edition of Marvel’s Thor (2011) last night. By all
accounts, it’s my favorite film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since it
taught me to love Thor and Marvel, which then inspired me to apply for an
internship there and the rest is geeky history. So I love this movie. I love
Thor. And like most in the Marvel fandom, I love Loki.
But there’s a moment in Thor
that I always found troubling and I often try to forget it happens. When it
does occur, I find myself incredibly uncomfortable, especially for a movie that
I thoroughly enjoy as both a feminist and a geek.
