jean’s dress is weird in the same way a lot of character things in this current era are weird, in that there’s been no real attempt to justify it from a character standpoint and it seems out-of-step with other characters, like scott, having new uniforms created for the era. it becomes openly obvious, in a way i think writers tend to try to avoid, that this was a choice made about a fictional character by real people for reasons that had (as far as we can tell) nothing to do with the character’s inner thoughts or emotions.
all of this.
the decision by the people making the comics to put her in that dress, regardless of character history/situation, also strikes me as extra sketchy, because it feels like an attempt to purify her. to infantalize her. to reduce her back to her marvel girl state (emphasis on girl). it feels fetishistic to me, actually; this obsession with painting jean as ‘pure’ and innocent, and it feels so much like that’s what this is a symptom of as well.