What Jada Pinkett Smith’s Critics Don’t Understand
For describing her seemingly unconventional marriage as she saw it, she has become the villain.
In her new memoir, Worthy, the actor Jada Pinkett Smith quotes the Marvel Comics superhero Wanda Maximoff to point out how women are often punished by double standards.
During a tense exchange with Doctor Strange in the blockbuster Marvel movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Maximoff reminds the male title character of how differently she is perceived because of her gender, even though both possess powerful supernatural abilities that can benefit or endanger humanity. “You break the rules, and you become the hero. I do it, and I become the enemy,” Maximoff tells Strange.
For weeks, Pinkett Smith has been the
