Ronda Rousey Wants to Play Captain Marvel, But Is She More Hero or Villain?

About a year ago I became captivated by a rising start in entertainment, Ronda Rousey. She amazed me, not because of her fighting prowess – which is notable, to say the least, as she is the best woman fighter in the world – but because the extent to which she accomplished a wide range of things she set out to do. Compete in the Olympics? Check. Break in to MMA? Double check, with the bonus of being the first woman to break into the UFC and bring attention to women’s fighing to a level that was unimaginable even 5 years ago. Become an actress? She’s no Meryl Streep, but she acted alongside Sylvester Stallone’s cast by joining The Expendables 3, and had a small part in the greatest action franchise of our generation when she played in Furious 7. Not bad for a little girl from California by way of middle-of-nowhere North Dakota. [quote_right]whether you love or hate her, to know Ronda Rousey’s persona is to feel some kind of way about her[/quote_right]She even wrote an autobiography – well, more so written by her sister – called My Fight/Your Fight that was published this summer. What can’t she do? My mild obsession led me to reading her book and learning about her life, from growing up with a speech impediment and her father’s suicide, to heartbreaks at the Olympics and in love, and finally her meteoric rise to stardom in the UFC. As I read, Ronda Rousey was captivating to me, yet I felt oddly uncomfortable with her at every chapter. See, as awesome as Rousey is, I realized I c…