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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8758374" data-attributes="member: 18182">Jenn's celebrity status as "She-Hulk" isn't what she expected to happen, and isn't what she wanted. She was afraid of being a "hulk", a monster, of being different. Of not being able to pursue her career as a lawyer.And that is part of what's happening. She gets fired from her job at the DA's office, and is only brought on with her new firm as a "diversity hire". In the real world, when you're hired only because you are a woman, or a person of color . . . you can doubt your own worth, or have others doubt your true worth. That's happening to Jenn at her new firm.She-Hulk is gaining celebrity status . . . . and that's not always so great, as the story shows us. She has folks stalking and attacking her, she's mobbed by paparazzi making up sensational stories about her. She's loved by some, hated by others . . . and not for who she truly is, but for the celebrity construct of being "She-Hulk" which she has little control over.From previews we've seen, in later episodes it seems likely that Jenn starts to lean into the more positive aspects of her new celebrity status and even enjoy being She-Hulk . . . but that hasn't happened yet. It's kinda hard to miss, it's the metaphor the show is pushing hard at, equating being super-powered to being a celebrity.In the real world . . . being famous isn't always great, it's sometimes awful, and most often it's a mixed-bag. Many celebrities have a love/hate relationship with their celebrity status . . . they hate how they are judged and stereotyped, they hate how folks have strong opinions about them (without truly knowing them), they hate the loss of privacy . . . . but the career benefits, the (sometimes) wealth, the access, the adulation of the public . . . . it's truly a mixed-bag of blessings and curses.</blockquote>

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