[Meta] On ladies and competence in Iron Man 3

[wallwalker]

I was thinking about Iron Man 3 again, in relation to another piece of meta I'm probably still going to write, and I came to a rather troubling conclusion about how the movie treated its lady characters.

Cut for a variety of film spoilers.
(And as usual, this only relates to the MCU. If there are comic storylines that aren't like this, by all means, tell me about them. I'll check them out.)

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(Crossposted to tumblr).