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Stripped naked and swapped for a woman: how Chris Hemsworth’s Thor is currently looking
Losing his hammer was bad enough, but now our hero must cope with being ogled by goddesses in Thor: Love and Thunder
It’s tough being Chris Hemsworth’s Thor right now. As the new trailer for Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder shows us, the latest episode of the Marvel superhero’s adventures has him replaced as the god of thunder by his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, now known as the Mighty Thor, and stripped naked by Russell Crowe’s Zeus as assorted females ogle and faint. It’s enough to get the men’s-rights brigade gasping in horror, and duly there are already umpteen threads on Reddit decrying Hollywood’s double standards.
If a female character were treated in the same way, there would be an outcry, goes the common refrain. Some point to the fact that Hemsworth complained (pretty half-heartedly, it must be said) about having to take his top off in the last Thor episode, 2017’s Ragnarok. Won’t somebody please think of the poor Aussie actor’s feelings in all this? Can’t those mean women and liberals just leave him alone, for Odin’s sake?
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