Bonus Ep. - Avengers: Endgame and the Women of the MCU (GUEST: Inkoo Kang from Slate)

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🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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While many critics have showered Avengers: Endgame with praise, some are pointing out the problematic treatment of women in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. In this bonus episode, David sits down with Inkoo Kang, staff writer at Slate, and Hoai-Tran Bui, writer at Slashfilm, to talk about the female characters of the MCU.

Read Inkoo Kang’s analysis on why the feminist moments of Endgame seem patronizing here, and Hoai -Tran Bui’s take on why women of the MCU deserve more here.

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0:32.7	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast.
0:35.0	And this is a special bonus episode about Avengers Endgame.
0:39.2	So over the course of the last couple weeks, I've released a few episodes about Avengers Endgame,
0:43.6	I've had a fun time talking with a lot of different people about it.
0:46.7	And so I've kind of recorded roughly like five hours worth of conversations about Avengers Endgame,
0:52.0	put them onto the internet on the Slash Filmcast feed and on YouTube.
0:57.1	And I was kind of ready to put the whole thing to bed and like not talk about Avengers Endgame forever.
1:03.2	But I read a couple pieces this week that really made me feel like I needed to have at least one
1:09.9	more meaningful chat about this film with some very intelligent folks.
1:13.6	So that's what I'm here to do today on the Slash Filmcast.
1:17.0	You can find more episodes of this podcast at slashfilmcast.com and email us at slashfilmcast.gmail.com
1:23.3	Joining me today, she is a staff writer and film critic at slashfilm.com.
1:28.4	Why generally welcome to the Slash Filmcast? How are you doing today, HD?
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