Anonymous asked: The "Whor" nonsense is misogynistic pap, but there is an underlying reason these people are complaining. Thor is a character with an identity, not a power set. Jane wielding the hammer doesn't make her Thor, son of Odin.
It doesn’t make her the son of Odin. It does make her Thor–just like Don Blake and Eric Masterson and Jake Olson before her.
it continues to boggle my mind how the people complaining about Thor have apparently not read Thor, in which these objections were directly addressed in the first arc.
Aaron’s run has entirely been a reflection on Thor’s identity– what it means for him as a person, what it means for him to be a god that walks among other gods, a god that walks among men, a figurehead to be worshiped, etc etc. After this reflection, when he becomes unworthy, Jane Foster is reluctant to use he name Thor first, UNTIL THOR ODINSON REJECTS THE NAME HIMSELF. There’s no assumption in the writing that the hammer automatically gives someone the name– it’s a decision made by characters that makes sense given those characeters’ histories over the past few years.
