A funny thing about older comic books is that sometimes, when a character is being a misogynist, I'm like, "And I'm choosing to ignore that. The modern version of him would never say that 😌" and other times I'm like, "Yeah, he's definitely still a misogynist in the 2020s." It ain't even related to if I like the character or not since there are plenty of characters I like, but for some reason, the idea of them being a bit sexist feels more ... idk ... integral? to the character than to others.
I feel like the "put your mask back on!" bit has been memed to death and reduced to "Felicia has a mask kink" but there's a lot more going on. Felicia couldn't handle that Spider-Man was a real person with a real history and a real life. That's called objectifying and that's not love.
peter parker: secretly spider-man’s boyfriend since 1962
in the earlier spider-man comics whenever someone is rude to peter his internal monologues feel like this
Spider-Man & Black Cat Peter Parker & Felicia Hardy
Otto Schmidt (art)
mary jane watson for the people