Again, they weren't dating at the time, and it's possible Peter was going out with Felicia, if not he still had an on and off thing with her, if MJ tried to get in the shower, Peter would kick her out.
Since Peter is saying that he needs cheering up, it sounds like she did that just to make him less tense by messing with him.
One of the things that really annoyed me when the entire OMD stuff was trotted out is that people paraded Marv Wolfman saying that "People changed MJ's character when she married" and they specifically talked of MJ's weepy backstory or whatever, while neglecting the fact that it was Wolfman and later Stern (who said similar words to similar effect) who created that backstory.
They were the ones who changed Mary Jane into the character she became when she got married and yet they complain that other writers did it and fans parrot their opinions without bothering to check their views or ask them about the stuff they did?
Marv Wolfman wrote MJ out of the books in ASM #193. Well exactly 100 issues later (ASM #290-292), she said yes to Peter and they got married. That's the "arc of history bending to justice" right there.
I honestly don't care what most comic book writers and editors think of romance in comic books. Historically their collective views on the subject have been toxic and typically sexist (especially when a female love interest is involved which accounts for 90% of pairings) in so far as women are used only to motivate the hero by way of being put in constant peril or even callously killed. I still cringe when I recall the whole "Batwoman can never get married or engaged to her long-term girlfriend" controversy.
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"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
Yeah, that was nine different levels of messed up, and the justification over there . . . "superheroes just shouldn't be allowed to be happy, period, or they lose their drive to be superheroes." I looked at that, and it just disturbed and sickened me. It spoke to me of something being utterly broken about how that person perceived superheroes.
And to your other point --- hopefully not starting a kerfuffle, though --- why do you think comics have historically been a tough sell for female readers and fans despite the dazzling array of dynamic and incredible female characters in both major companies?
The spider is always on the hunt.
I'm going to be brutally honest here, IMO, it is because they haven't treated their female characters with respect. Of course, I mean historically not contemporaneously. Take the original (or at least most famous) Supergirl her major claim to fame is the iconic story in which Superman holds her dead body while weeping. Supergirl has no agency in the story her role is simply to be the tragic victim, much like Gwen Stacy.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
Found colored artwork from Amazing Mary Jane #1. Looking fantastic!