Your Feminist Avengers Post 1: The Black Widow

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I feel kind of like this today:

Then again, this is pretty much every day.

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An interesting choice was made when the Black Widow was chosen to represent women in The Avengers. I cannot deny that the Black Widow has a long and distinguished Marvel history. Well, a long history, anyway. Would you recognize the Black Widow if she looked like this?

Because originally she did. She was conceived as a femme fatale working for a certain Eastern European government. Back in those days, Hawkeye was her dupe, and the two of them attempted to wrest information out of Iron Man.

Thanks to the phenomena of Steed and Peel's Avengers, however, Natasha received a makeover.

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