Fans Point Out Double Standard in MCU’s Nude Scenes: “the male gaze is so bizarre right now”

‘Agatha All Along’ premiered just a few days ago to an overwhelmingly positive fan reactions. The show takes place 3 years after the events of ‘WandaVision’ and sees Agatha Harkness returning to Westview following her imprisonment, powerless.

In the first episode, we can see that Agatha is still trapped as Agnes, replaying popular true crime tropes. Seeing hints connected to magic and Wanda slowly brings back her memories.

After “Agnes” meets the Teen, she realizes that the dead body she was investigating was nothing but a figment of her imagination, and she breaks out of her prison. Agatha is completely naked when she marches outside and starts yelling at her neighbor for playing along with her “fantasy.”

The actress and the showrunner later revealed that the naked scene that shows Kathryn Hahn completely in the nude was Hahn’s idea. They wanted to present just how vulnerable Agatha is now that she has no magic to rely onto.

The scene was both funny and had strong symbolism, however, it also faced certain backlash along the lines of Hahn having no place being naked on screen.

Fans were quick to point out that Thor was also in the nude in ‘Love and Thunder,’ and nobody seemed to mind the scene so much. In fact, everyone enjoyed it for different reasons. Some, well, because it’s Chris Hemsworth, and some because it was funny.

Fans immediately started either defending their opinion or agreeing with the original poster:

Some fans also pointed out that Thor’s naked scene was worrying in the context of it being no different than a sexual assault:

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