The super-secret boyband

diaphena:

gyzym:

a female character who is not interested in love for [insert reason here]: fine! good! in many cases, empowering!

the suggestion that a female character would be less awesome if she loved someone, regardless of how that love was portrayed/the suggestion that love…

Yesssss. To me, this is what’s problematic when people criticize Pepper’s wardrobe in The Avengers. I get the feeling there’s this heavy subtextual element of “she’s just Tony’s girlfriend now, so everything she does is going to be WRONG WRONG WRONG”