Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Annihilation…what do they have in common?

The answer is simple. When I saw these films, I lost count of how many people said it was so great to see something of themselves represented in a film.

Something that I, as a cishet dude, have almost never had to utter in my life.

Not that I haven’t been the Tolkien white dude in some places. My first middle school had a white minorit...