I had not planned to comment on the news that DC Comics is redesigning Wonder Woman's costume, because of all the many topics on which I have nothing to say, that's one of them. But others do have lots to say about Ms. W. Woman's change of clothing, specifically this fellow at one of the Big Stupids, who seems fanatically determined to prove correct every appalling stereotype about grown-up comic book fans -- maladjusted, misogynist, monomaniacal, mutilated bodies in basement refrigerator, probably smelly like left-out tunafish and mildewed underpants.
Once again DC shows it doesn’t know what to do with one of its most iconic characters. The problem with Wonder Woman isn’t her costume. It never was. But leave it to the suits to think a PC reboot is going to solve the problems that have plagued this character since her inception.
Those jive turkey Big Comic Book "suits." Man-to-It-Sticking commences:
The problem with Wonder Woman isn’t her look. It’s her personality. She has never been a warm, appealing character. She comes from an island populated only by immortal Amazons who hate men. And men aren’t allowed to set foot on the island. This island of super-women send her to “the man’s world” where she brings the baggage of this sexist worldview.
For seven decades she's been running around in her underpants, but would beat guys up sooner than fuck them. Wonder Woman: superhero pricktease.
See, here is problem #1. Most comics readers are male. So you start off telling them their gender sucks. Great sales pitch.
Nerds Want Tits! Nerds Want Tits!
Let’s deal with some reality for a second.
OK. You're angry that a comic book character is insufficiently flattering to your masculine self-perception.
I know the PC crowd and leftists in general love the concept of “protected classes” and the idea that, say, women could do things better than men if they had the chance. But aside from the chauvinistic mentality of this argument it ignores a simple axiom. Women are human beings. Human beings are flawed creatures.
Remember: rant inspired by DC Comics' character, Wonder Woman, invented in 1941.
The idea that someone’s gender makes them wiser or better is the kind of elitist nonsense that every tyrant has used to justify their atrocities. Ask yourself this question: Has everyone you’ve come across in life who is a member of your gender, race or religion been wonderful to you? Can you honestly say that every member of your race, religion or gender has an impeccably perfect history of treatment of others?
Fair enough. As straight white male myself, reading this, I couldn't cringe more.
The idea that a race, gender, sexual orientation, whatever sets a group apart from others is complete nonsense. We’re all human.
Wait, isn't Wonder Woman not human...? (Honestly, she's not, right?)
Anyway, as we straight white guys have been trying to remind everyone else for centuries, we're all just human. Get that through your thick wooly fairy girl skulls already. Freaks.
And any story that sells the idea that one gender is bad and another good is nothing more than classist porn.
Which explains why it took 70 years to give WW pants.
Secondly, while Diana Prince (Wonder Woman’s real name) does change her attitude somewhat when she comes ashore, the “whole men are evil” mentality continues. It’s misandry, plain and simple and that’s unappealing. She does undergo some growth as a character from her early days, but writers continue to revert to this lame argument, which is going to limit your audience to the self-loathing types. More on that in a second.
Again, rant inspired by DC Comics' character Wonder Woman, invented in 1941.
Third, she lacks personality. Any protagonist needs to be appealing in some way for the reader to identify with them or care about them. Every writer of that character failed to give us enough reason to invest ourselves in that storyline. Being good looking isn’t enough, especially in a world were 99% of the women are babes. Being able to do heroic deeds isn’t enough since that’s standard operating procedure for super-heroes and most comics writers don’t even seem to know what heroism means.
I have closely observed seventy years' worth of this comic book character's tits, and I declare them mediocre at best!
Now it gets weird:
Fourth, her backstory isn’t very well thought out. It’s a hodgepodge of slap dash Greek Mythology badly researched and poorly executed by most who’ve handled her. The man (gasp!) who created her, Dr. William Moulton Marston, was a bit of a perv who was into bondage. This is why she got tied up a lot back in the ’40s when he worked on the comic. The story was supposed to be about feminism, but this is coming from some bondage loving guy who who lived with two women. One of his views was that there is “a male notion of freedom that is inherently anarchic and violent, and an opposing female notion based on ‘Love Allure’ that leads to an ideal state of submission to loving authority.” Creepy.
Well, yes, creepy. Of course, this nugget completely upends our more recent perv's entire thesis, something he doesn't notice, because, well, Renfield thought you were the one with the problem all along, you know?
So, the characters origins come from a somewhat warped dude. And then, through the years DC has tried to make her some kind of ersatz feminist icon, spouting the usual clichéd bromides, basically saying “you can look but don’t touch!” Hostile, icy women may appeal to some, but are generally not going to win people over unless we’re given a good understanding of them as people. And writers over the years have failed to do that.
Wonder Woman is a pricktease, is my argument, and I hope you share my dislike of sexual deviants and liberals, fellow normals.
Until Wonder Woman gets handled by someone who understands the problems with this character and knows how to really fix them, this reboot is going to be yet another in a long line of failures. As for the costume, it’s shrug inducing. The whole point of a super-hero costume is to make them stand apart from everyone else in some way. Making her look more normal takes away what little fun was there in the first place.
If I wanted to see chicks wearing pants, I'd take public transportation, or I would, if I didn't have this Big Government restraining order holding me down like they tried to do with John Galt.
Classic super-heroes are supposed to be bright spots in a dark world. Making them more muted and ordinary looking just makes them yet another face in the crowd.
The apparition of these titties in the comic/ Soggy Kleenex, on a damp dank thigh.
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