Moral & Public Policy Problems Spider-Man

Don’t set your public policy or moral clock by the newest superhero movie. It’s got some flaws. But first the good news. Congratulations are in order for the Disney Corporation’s subsidiary, Marvel Studios. Despite a promise earlier in the year from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige that the increasingly politically correct studio would be making the Great Leap Wokeward and a partial fulfillment in the form of a fall box office bomb called “The Eternals,” Spider-Man: No Way Home appeared a few weeks ago and bears no signs of going woke. And, with over $1.1 billion in global sales already, it is definitely not going broke.

That’s not to say that some didn’t try. The Daily Wire reported that Marisa Tomei, who has played Peter Parker’s Aunt May in the current series, lobbied to make her character a lesbian. Apparently, the love of money is not only the root of all evil; it may also be the rooting out of dumb ideas. Aunt May is not that good of a moral guide in the current movie, but at least we don’t learn anything about her sexual appetites.

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