I loved Captain Marvel. Saw it twice, and realised it was exactly the kind of representation I was CRAVING as a child. A super heroine, a fighter, an adventurer, who is defined by that, and that alone. She’s not fighting in heels, she’s not sexualised, her outfits are not made for her to be “sexy”, she has no makeup (as far as you can have “no makeup” in movies, you see what I mean).
Lot of people said she’s “cheated”, but , actually, what defines her? What is her TRUE super power? The fact she gets up again. And again. And again. Not matter how many times she falls, no matter how many times she’s pushed down. She knows her skills, her strenght, she has resilience, she has confidence.
Just like Rey. I was waiting for these characters when I was a child. When I was a kid who came to despise her own gender because representation in medias were mostly alien to me. To this day I still dont know how I feel about my gender, actually, and representation of women in medias and society has a lot to do with that. I’m glad that, even if I’m not a child anymore, I get to learn about fantastics women, reals and fictionnals, that went beyond the norms society pushed on us.