#but its progress

Then...Black Widow. Natasha freaking Romanoff in HER OWN movie. Focused on her and her journey and her strengths and her general kickassery. Not as an accessory or a side dish, not as the obligatory eye candy in a cast of men, but the main dish. She’s the feature. And when the preview was over, I thought damn, I need to see that multiple times so tptb understand that we want this. We want movies with strong female protagonists that aren’t reduced to a two dimensional love interest.

But then my musings were cut short because the next preview started. Mulan. A story of a woman that saved her dad by posing as a soldier at a time that she could be put to death for impersonating a man. Another movie featuring a kickass woman as the protagonist.

And it occurred to me...another preview. Another. Never in my almost 38 years of existence have I ever gone to a movie that showed two previews of movies featuring women in this capacity. Never. Sure there were movies about princesses or that had women in them as sidekicks...but as the main character in her own feature? Those came along periodically but never enough and certainly never two at a time.