7 Reasons the Female Thor Backlash Is Just Plain Stupid

This week, Marvel brought some good news exclusively to The View because if there’s some comic shit going on, Elizabeth Hasselbeck needs to fucking know. It turns out that soon, Thor will find himself unworthy to wield his hammer, Mjolnir and it will find itself falling into the hands of a woman. Now, just like anything else in comics, this garnered just as many eye-rolls and angry message board comments as it did cheers and hand-holds. Because the internet. Ideally, we are here to help keep the peace in the public arena with a little “tough love”, if you will. That’s why we’ve compiled a few fun reasons that some of you naysayers might consider shutting what we here at Black Nerd Problems affectionately refer to as “the fuck up.” 1). This Isn’t the First Time. In Alex Ross’ 1999 future vision of the Marvel Universe, Earth X, Asgard’s resident trickster, Loki, conned Odin into making the God of Thunder into a woman to teach him humility. Because sometimes, Thor can be kind of an asshole. The Thunder Goddess was one of many concepts Ross has put together in a sketchbook for Wizard Magazine after the success of his team up with Mark Waid for DC’s Kingdom Come. The Wizard issue sold out almost immediately and prompted Marvel to commission Ross to expand the sketches into an actual limited comic series. Now, it would be irresponsible of me to say that it was all because there happened to be a female Thor design included, but there certainly wasn’t such a negative response conside…