Unpopular opinion: I don’t know why people love this so much, it’s one of my least favourite Pepper Potts moments in the history of Pepper Potts. It’s gross and slut-shaming and unworthy. The movies treat Christine Everhart like complete trash both times she shows up, specifically in a sexualized, humiliating way.
Yeah. :/ I mean, her poise and aplomb here are pretty cool, but I really really wish we’d gotten to see them in some other context instead. Especially considering how hypocritical it was. I mean, Tony’s the one who propositioned Christine, but nobody’s talking to him like this.
I could never even figure out what we were supposed to hate Christine for. For asking Tony solid, important questions about the ethics of his business? For sleeping with a man who’s the walking embodiment of a sexual harassment lawsuit?
We’re supposed to hate Christine because she doesn’t go along with the plan. Because she’s the press. Because she challenges Tony. Because she’s doing her goddamn job. Because she has the gall to think that she’s worthy of more than a bounce off of Tony Stark’s dick (which apparently makes her sullied for life and she has to step down to the execrable Justin Hammer since she couldn’t actually do her job any way that didn’t involve selling herself out to the billionaire purveyors of the stories she needs to tell). Because fucking Tony means she’s stupid and impure and disposable as compared to Pepper being brilliant and virginal and indispensable. (Tony’s dick is the opposite of Midas’ Touch, apparently, unless he’s in love in which case the fucking is pure and righteous.)
I hate all of it. The whole thing is just shit. All shit.
It’s not even following its own logic. Christine’s the one who asks Tony questions so good that they make him sit up and say, “Wait a minute, what is going on here…?” And yet apparently we’re supposed to revile her for it.
Or the alternative read, since this scene is from Christine’s POV, is that Pepper can be a bit of a bitch sometimes. Which admittedly is true, but isn’t a character trait that should be celebrated.
I mean, honestly I figure the real reason is because the script was written by a man and he probably never even noticed he was doing it. Just a “haha look at the slut” moment all the other men in the production took for the natural way of things and skimmed right past.
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