So you’re Scarlett Johansson. You’re the only female in a cast of pure testosterone. You’re fierce AF though, so no need to worry about holding your own.
BUT THEN, you’re sitting in an interview or you’re on the red carpet, and while the boys get to rattle off about their stunts and who’s the boss and exploding stuff and how they really ‘found’ their character, you get to answer vacuous questions like “Ooh, what dress are you wearing?” and “OMG, can you even wear underwear under your costume?!” Titillating stuff.
So Cosmo, world leader in how to give great head and have even better orgasms, decided they’d flip the sexism card in their latest interview with ScarJo and Mark Ruffalo. Fun times!
Let us review. Any other interview, and you probably wouldn’t have found out that ScarJo does most of her own stunts and that she’s a sweet-as motorcycle rider. There probably wouldn’t have been an interlude in which Mark Ruffalo could tell the world that she is, in fact, “kick ass” (duh). We wouldn’t know that Ruffles has his own prison routine to get in shape and that most of his scenes are filmed in a “man-cancelling leotard”. Sexy. And his over-the-shoulder face? On fleek.
It’s nice to see Scarlett in the spotlight for once. While she most definitely stands her ground, she’s often drowned out by the boys. And it’s obvious by the way he looks at her that Ruffalo has nothing but complete respect for her. What a poppet. And also, I bet he wouldn’t joke about Black Widow being a whore (Evans and Renner, NOT HAPPY).
It’s cool that Cosmo have done Opposite Day with the sexism, but when it comes down to it, why they hell do journos even need to ask them? I don’t want to hear about your cleansing routine because a) you’ll always be prettier than me and b) I don’t have millions of dollars to pay for spendy creams made out of fish milk or whatever. I also don’t give a crap about who designed your dress or what your nails look like or how long it took you to get ready. And it’s pretty obvious that today’s starlets (or you know, just stars, let’s cut the gender specification here, guys) are over it too.
So, yes Cosmo, it’s cool and refreshing that you’ve flipped the questions (and if that sounds sarcastic, it’s not, I just sound sarcastic most of the time), but how about we just drop them all together. Let’s all talk about things people actually care about, like how Evans and Hemsworth need to spend at least half of the next Avengers film with their shirts off and we need WAY more sex scenes.
See what I did there?
