Okay here’s the premise. I, having wanted to have my own rambling thread figured the best place to start was Wonder Woman. So I’ll just post something June 2nd when the movie comes out. Well what do you know didn’t happen, but well I did see the movie that weekend and when it ended I was like. Okay that was amazing totally should write out the ‘essay’ I had in mind. Great, get home and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t even bring myself to reply to role-play threads let alone type out paragraphs of rambling. Then after seeing it a second time one week later I was like yeah okay I really should just sit down and write it. So without further ado…
How Feminism Created and Saved Wonder Woman
From the beginning, as one could guess with her being a female …show more content…
She also served as one of the two inspirations for Wonder Woman. The second was Marston’s former student and both his and Elizabeth’s partner(yes in the romantic way) Olive Byrne(remember her, oh by the way her family created the organization that would later become Planned Parenthood).
Just to make sure I put enough emphasis on this. William Moulton Marston the creator of Wonder Woman was in a healthy polyamorous relationship. And hell it was his partner’s that are actually the reason Wonder Woman exists since he got the job because of Olive and Elizabeth was the one who was like “dude make her a badass woman.”
I could talk about that all day, but lets move on a bit. So early Wonder Woman comics were super progressive reflecting Martson’s own views(okay yeah including his bdsm stuff but i digress) Similar to Rosie the Riveter, Wonder Woman promoted a more independent woman. She was patriotic(a necessity of the WWII era superheroes), strong, empowered, and unapologetically a woman. Like Rosie who promoted women to embrace their new roles on the home front, Wonder Woman fought oversees as a nurse and in the WAC, Women’s Army Corps. …show more content…
I don’t know. Look its bad takes everything that made Wonder Woman strong and inspirational and destroyed it.
Covers
So from 1968 and the early 1970s(look I know this gets in the Bronze Age, but I’m just gonna count it as Silver cause reasons) “The New Wonder Woman” was being published, but do you know what else was going on? Well a lot of stuff, but directly related to this mess in some way was The Feminist Movement.
Enter Gloria Steinem, political activist and one of the leaders of the feminist movement, oh and a big Wonder Woman fan. Steinem seeing her childhood superhero powerless and more of a damsel in distress than badass nazi puncher was offended. She recognized the impact Wonder Woman both had on her and could have on future generations if she was back to being Wonder Woman.
So what did you she do about it? Well first Wonder Woman needs to be back in her original costume and obviously back with her powers, but Steinem didn’t really have the ability to change that in the comics so she instead did so on the cover of the brand new magazine of Ms.
How Feminism Created and Saved Wonder Woman
From the beginning, as one could guess with her being a female …show more content…
She also served as one of the two inspirations for Wonder Woman. The second was Marston’s former student and both his and Elizabeth’s partner(yes in the romantic way) Olive Byrne(remember her, oh by the way her family created the organization that would later become Planned Parenthood).
Just to make sure I put enough emphasis on this. William Moulton Marston the creator of Wonder Woman was in a healthy polyamorous relationship. And hell it was his partner’s that are actually the reason Wonder Woman exists since he got the job because of Olive and Elizabeth was the one who was like “dude make her a badass woman.”
I could talk about that all day, but lets move on a bit. So early Wonder Woman comics were super progressive reflecting Martson’s own views(okay yeah including his bdsm stuff but i digress) Similar to Rosie the Riveter, Wonder Woman promoted a more independent woman. She was patriotic(a necessity of the WWII era superheroes), strong, empowered, and unapologetically a woman. Like Rosie who promoted women to embrace their new roles on the home front, Wonder Woman fought oversees as a nurse and in the WAC, Women’s Army Corps. …show more content…
I don’t know. Look its bad takes everything that made Wonder Woman strong and inspirational and destroyed it.
Covers
So from 1968 and the early 1970s(look I know this gets in the Bronze Age, but I’m just gonna count it as Silver cause reasons) “The New Wonder Woman” was being published, but do you know what else was going on? Well a lot of stuff, but directly related to this mess in some way was The Feminist Movement.
Enter Gloria Steinem, political activist and one of the leaders of the feminist movement, oh and a big Wonder Woman fan. Steinem seeing her childhood superhero powerless and more of a damsel in distress than badass nazi puncher was offended. She recognized the impact Wonder Woman both had on her and could have on future generations if she was back to being Wonder Woman.
So what did you she do about it? Well first Wonder Woman needs to be back in her original costume and obviously back with her powers, but Steinem didn’t really have the ability to change that in the comics so she instead did so on the cover of the brand new magazine of Ms.