Summary Of Wonder Woman By Gloria Steinem

Media and its effect on humanity
The essay wonder woman by Gloria Steinem, she about a comic book character created by Charles Moulton. A woman named Diana Prince lived at a place called Paradise Island, and it was consisted of nothing but women, amazon women at that. Wonder woman was the very She was an independent and instead of using violence all the time she took another route to fight crime Steinem says in paragraph nine she “was a amazon super-hero who never killed her enemies. Instead she converted them to a belief in equality and piece, to self-reliance, and respect for the rights of others.” Wonder woman had a big impact on little girls during her times in many ways. The reason why she had an impact on girls and women because she was like a role model, she made them feel as if they could independent as she is and …show more content…
Wonder woman was the first woman super hero who had the spotlight all on her, she was not part of a male superhero group and her comic books was the first continually written female comic book. With all the positive things that wonder woman brought to the table, some men felt as if wonder woman was giving the women too much of a change because along with the feeling they could be independent women self-confidence and self-esteem had started to increase. So man changed her from an independent women into a more dependent woman, by dependent she ask for more help from the men instead of women. In a way by doing that man had taken had taken away all of her Amazonian powers. This goes back to affecting the women and girls because now that they see wonder woman a big female role model getting g help instead of being independent like she use to be it’s like a why that the media (which is the comic book) is telling them that it is okay for men to help instead of being