Spider-Man: Far From Home is a pretty fun little film that serves as a perfect palette cleanser following Avengers: Endgame, as well as an opportunity to see Tom Holland goof around in interviews for a few weeks.
But while the anecdotes about Gwyneth Paltrow are amusing, Tom’s comments about wanting to see more representation in future Marvel films and the subsequent reaction to them have proven to be the most interesting thing about his Far From Home media tour.
In an interview with The Times, Tom talked about Marvel’s plans for greater representation of “lots of different people” in the future and was all for seeing more inclusion in the MCU.
“The world isn’t as simple as a straight white guy. It doesn’t end there, and these films need to represent more than one type of person.”
This is great and all yet one can’t help but notice the contrasting response to his comments compared to very similar ones made by Brie Larson when Captain Marvel came out.
Brie was heavily slammed by the internet’s horde of puffy chested bros when she called for greater representation, so much so they decided to review bomb Captain Marvel over her supposed anti-white men comments. By comparison, there’s barely been a whimper over Tom using his influence to spread a nearly identical pro-diversity message.
Hmm, I wonder why that is.
This isn’t the first time that certain circles of Marvel fans have shown just why they’re the absolute worst, but it is just another example of the double standard that’s sadly prevalent in pop-culture fandoms.
The comments made by Tom and Brie may be the same, but the dudebros’ silence over the Spider-Man star compared to the Captain Marvel star is deafening.
Hey dudebros of the internet, please just stay quiet forever whenever anyone in a position of influence talks about the need for greater representation in film, regardless of their gender. That’ll be a good start in fixing this problem.