“Brie Larson is too stuck in her Liberal agenda to be a good actress.”

“There are many nicer and humbler actresses than her to play that role.”

“She has a problem with too many white men involved in Marvel movies. Well, let’s get someone who isn’t a white woman to play the part of Carol Danvers.”

All of these are quotes from an online petition to get the white actress Brie Larson replaced in the role of Captain Marvel by a gay woman of color. The petition has nearly 30,000 signatures.

At the time of its release, Captain Marvel was the first female superhero movie to earn over one billion dollars. The film placed a strong emphasis on female power, and Brie Larson’s portrayal of the character brought a sense of empowerment to young girls who have only ever seen men grace the posters of Marvel movies. 

Many viewers were averse to the film’s feminist tones, accusing Marvel of “bringing politics into cinema”. But the fact that Brie Larson was at the helm of the movie made it even worse. 

“She kind of has that stink to her, where she thinks that she’s better than other people… you kind of get that vibe, if you ever watch any of her interviews…” 

It should be blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention that Brie Larson is being subjected to the double standards of the movie industry. Her male colleagues are permitted to slouch in their chairs and say whatever they want, but if Larson acts in a way that is disagreeable to anyone anywhere, she is persecuted for being “unseemly”. Society is so clever at tricking ordinary people into thinking that it does not have roles already set out for them. 

Brie Larson has always been an advocate for the inclusion of women and people of color in every aspect of the film industry. 

 “I don’t need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn’t made for him! I want to know what it meant to women of color, biracial women, to teen women of color.”

She should be considered not as a hindrance in the fight for equal representation, but an asset to those whose voices are not being heard. 

Perhaps it did not occur to the anti-Brie Larson petitioners that there can be more than three women in a movie. Maybe they did not understand that there is no rule prohibiting Marvel from just adding more women characters to its films. 

Brie said it herself:

“What I’m looking for is to bring more seats up to the table. No one is getting their chair taken away. There’s not less seats at the table, there’s just more seats at the table.”

The fact that there are no openly gay characters in Marvel Movies is not Brie Larson’s fault. She is not the one who should be replaced. The people who should be replaced are those who use their “wokeness” as an excuse to persecute women and get what they want. Marvel should not replace Brie Larson, but instead use the petition against her as a reason to be more inclusive in its casting. 

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