speaking—my—mind:

Its representation of women.

Let us assess in greater detail:

1. Two main female characters. Eight main male characters.

2. Most of the men have some sort of supernatural power. (All of them excluding the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who get all the glory instead.) What do Black Widow and Agent Hill get? Guns and body-hugging suits.

3. Black Widow is mostly allied with Hawkeye and Agent Hill is allied with Nick Fury. They do not - gods forbid - exist independently of the men that surround them.

4. Hill is subservient to Fury. PLUS, she gets to ask all the stupid questions, like “How do you know?” at the end of the film, so that he can respond with his super-smart one-liners.

Think about it.

By the way, I am not interested in the comics. I am talking about the film. As a Hollywood production. It is just one of many, many films that subtly (and falsely) try to show females’ dependence on and subservience to men.

Why doesn’t somebody create a group of female crimefighting superhero bad ass women who work for their own secret organisation and save the universe? Hmm?

I actually disagree really strongly with this. I can’t say much about Agent Hill, because when I look at her it’s really hard to see anything other than Aunt Robin from How I Met Your Mother (and I’ve only seen the movie once so on second viewing maybe I’ll get to do some more analysis) but Black Widow had more agency and was more effective as a character than most of the guys in the movie:

“Oh, let me interrogate the bad guy! And then kick his ass with this chair!”
“Let me fly this quinjet around the world!”
“Oh, let me volunteer to go after my brainwashed partner after a giant green monster almost tore me apart!”
“Hey Clint I’m gonna knock some sense into you.”
“And make sure you’re ok. Welcome back.”
“Hey Steve, give me a boost so I can fly this alien spacecraft.”
“Hey Loki let me use your scepter to close this fucking portal thats gonna flatten Manhattan.”

…and doesn’t complain once, meanwhile all the male characters are getting their whinefest on.

There’s also the fact that Widow didn’t have any more body shots than any of the male characters. She’s a female character who uses her sexuality as opposed to letting it use her, and allows others to draw conclusions based on her body and mannerisms before throwing those conclusions right back in their faces (see: mobsters at the beginning, Tony in Iron Man 2, and obviously Loki).

In conclusion: