She's
a bit of a chameleon is The Mighty Thor's Jane Foster: she's been a
nurse, a doctor, an astrophysicist and a hippie groupie type in
various incarnations but of course, since she started off in the
Silver Age, she was also intensely creepy and stalker-ish:
I
don't know what issue this is from but it does illustrate the deep,
terrifying levels of insanity Silver Age writers used to think was
part and parcel of being a love interest. Still, I suppose that's one
way of introducing agency and “strength” to a female character:
the genuine belief that you can dominate a warrior god into
submission.
It's
insane, it's creepy and far from a healthy portrayal of female
sexuality but sometimes with old comics you have to take whatever
agency you can get.
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