In addition to punching an old lady in the face, one of the big talking points to come out of the Captain Marvel trailer debut earlier this week is something much less fun and all too familiar to women everywhere:
“Smile more.”
Those two words have become shorthand for a particularly insidious form of sexual harassment and although she’s the most powerful superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even Captain Marvel isn’t immune from it. Unsurprisingly, a common troll complaint leveled at the trailer is that Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers doesn’t smile enough in it (because this is the kind of thing we think about when it comes to male heroes like Captain America, right?). Larson herself has seen the complaints and responded by posting Photoshopped posters (originally posted on Twitter by Jane Ritt) of various male MCU heroes sporting grins. The results were off-putting, to say the least:
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