It was a pandering, forced moment so the MCU could show off it's female representation. Just like they've forced Captain Marvel, who is a terrible addition in her current capacity, to keep up with one of DCs few successes in Wonder Woman.
Was Black Panther also "forced pandering"? Or does the difference between "forced pandering" and "organic diversity" simply boil down to whether the movie ends up good?
Did they have a scene in which the men stood together dramatically as a symbol of manhood and masculine power? No.
Sure they did: with Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man right before they fought Thanos. But you don't notice that, because those characters are not
male heroes or
white heroes; they're just
heroes. So showing them
can't be "pandering."
This is exactly the problem. When it's women, it's
forced pandering, but when it's men, that's just Normal.