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Bam! How female superheroes are taking over the movies
Brie Larson has been cast as Captain Marvel in the first current-gen Marvel movie led by a lady. Gal Gadot is ‘Wonder Woman’. This summer we saw the feminist rebrand of 'Ghostbusters’. Where once female superheroes took a backseat to their male counterparts, suddenly the world of geeky movies can’t stop talking about butt-kicking babes. Here’s why it’s happening. 1. The women who write comics are finding their own audiences For decades, fans of caped fighters have had no choice but to put up with overwhelmingly straight cis white male superheroes created overwhelmingly by straight cis white men. The world of comic books (and by extension the world of comic book movies) was a boys’ club. Social media platforms like Tumblr and YouTube are changing that. Thousands of talented girls and women are shattering the glass ceiling, self-publishing their work online. Self-taught Canadian comic book creator Kate Leth was working in a comic book store when she began posting semi-autobiographical cartoons on Tumblr. Now she’s writing ‘Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!’ for Marvel Comics (the character also appears in Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’). And then there’s G Willow Wilson, creator of Ms Marvel, the teenage second-generation American Muslim superhero. These characters have massive female followings – which has ultimately led to the casting of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel. Brie Larson has been cast as Captain Marvel 2. Social media provides a space for fangirls’ voices Fact: women have