I couldn’t care less about the sex exploits of a philandering irresponsible and immature Peter Parker. Silk has no real depth to her personality. She does not come across as believable. She is a one dimensional character and a sex-ploitation plot device and the only time we see her is when she’s with Peter…and when she’s alone with Peter, she’s trying to screw him because of lol “pheromones”, like dogs on heat, lol, the urge to mate like spider bunnies. What? Seriously? lol. It’s not even written with realistic maturity.
I work with kids, some of which have suffered trauma, neglect and abuse and the process to recovery, stability and normality takes time. However, the fictional character of Silk has been locked up for 13 years and she is apparently completely trauma free. Wow! there is no emotional or psychological damage, other than being consumed with lust every time she is around Peter. Yeah right, being locked up for 13 years turns you into a stalker, a hyper-horny female spider person.
But Hey! there’s all that sex to catch up on. Lol, what a great example for teenage girls reading comics that casual sex with the person you are attracted to is okay. If it feels good, just do it. There are no repercussions. It’s school boy fantasy and totally irresponsible writing.
Silk is known as a “Mary Sue” character: a character who is unrealistically perfect in every way. She undermines Spider-Man’s powers in every way because she is portrayed as a better superhero than Peter because every character Slott writes is a better superhero than Peter. She doesn’t have any struggle or challenge in battle or even in ordinary life, seeing as how she gets an internship at a major news station without any resume or documents. This makes the character unrealistic, stereotypical and just plain boring. You need conflict and struggle for a story or character to work. She is a force fed character with no substance.
I think of a role model in serialiszd fiction as someone I can relate to and perhaps would like to meet if they were real. Katniss Everdeen, from Hunger Games is such a character and many people admire the character’s integrity and humbleness, but I shudder at the thought of meeting a Cindy Moon type character.
It’s interesting to note that characters like DCs Dick Grayson are always evolving and Nightwing has reached adulthood, but Slott’s Peter Parker, instead of being a responsible, strong and mature 28 year old, has regressed into a goofy wisecracking weakling.
Spidey has a truly unique skill set, but you wouldn’t know it anymore. His unique super hero status is also further diminished and eroded by Silk who was allegedly bitten by the same spider. An altogether BS concept making Spider-Man’s distinctive and remarkable origin less significant. Pete has become an incompetent fool and a second rate character in his own book.
Marvel’s whole “world outside your window” has also become a fallacy. Diversity of thought is frowned upon as being politically incorrect and sees them patting themselves on the back with their “diversity” moves, but really, they only focus on race, gender and sexuality. They are pandering to a gullible and impressionable younger demographic.
Being a minority female character does not excuse Silk from being a bad character and terrible role model.
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