JUST BECAUSE SHE SAYS IT, DOESN’T MEAN IT IS TRUE….

 Alright boys, get the little lady out of the kitchen and huddle around the internets, because it’s time once again for another episode of Mansplaining with Lance. Today: She-Hulk.

There is a meme floating around, most on Mansogynous sites like YesSheCan, with a cute little speech from the half hour Disney comedy, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. In it, Jennifer Walters explains to her cousin that she, like most women (and unlike most men), is an expert an controlling her anger; but is she?

I mean, the speech is nice, and makes a point, but let us go back to the night before the speech when Jennifer is standing outside a bar after being ‘tarted up’ by four random women in the Ladies Room.

 

SHE-HULK stands on the bar porch. Three YOUNG MEN exit the bar ad-libbing good-byes to the people in the bar.

                MAN 2

Ladies Night was a bust.

                MAN 3

So, where are we going, fellas?

 

MAN 1 notices She-hulk at the end of the porch.

 

                MAN 1

Hey, s’up? How you doing?

                SHE-HULK

Fine.

                MAN 2

You with anyone?

                SHE-HULK

I’m waiting for my ride.

                MAN 2

What’s your name?

                SHE-HULK

I think my boyfriend is just…

 

She steps off the porch.

 

                MAN 2

Aww, come on…

                MAN 1

Hey, we’re just being friendly.

                MAN 3

Are you too good to talk to us?

 

Her rage bubbles over. She screams and turns green. Her cousin comes from nowhere and knocks her unconscious before she can do any damage.

 

Sure, the guys are a little douchey, but did Jennifer display a reasonable and measured response to their pathetic attempts at starting a conversation with her?

The four girls in the bathroom were more aggressive towards her than those boys, but she wanted to use them for their phones, so she suppressed her rage, didn’t turn green and didn’t beat them into submission. The boys had nothing to offer her, so she felt justified in using physical violence against them.

It should be noted that when she transformed into the She-Hulk in front of the bar, two of her ‘attackers’ sought solace and comfort in each other’s arms, suggesting that they might not have been the sexual threat that she thought.

Remember, female empowerment is not as much about equality as it is ‘It is my turn, Jack’ and nine of out ten women will kill you in your sleep, given half a chance. Of course, ten out of ten men will kill you too, so what are you going to do?