Wonder Woman's secret past

[Cartoonist]

Very informative story in The New Yorker. The link loads for me, but it does ask for a log-in that doesn't seem mandatory.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/last-amazon

[randome]

1. I don't know where WW is today but for a more modern age, she needs to ditch the costume.

I don't mind if she looks sexy but that costume is too colorful and too distracting. Interesting article, though. Thanks for posting.
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[Scootaloo]

2. So, something like this?

[randome]

3. Better. I think.

But it still plays too much into the idea that a woman superhero can't simply be heroic but has to emphasize her warrior side in order to compete on the same level as male superheroes.

It's like Steven Moffat writing Riversong as, not just heroic or daring on her own, but willing to shoot people's hats off (how dangerously foolish is that?) and willing to kill on a whim. Going overboard on a male's characterization of a woman because men can't generally conceive of a woman being simply brave and heroic on her own.

I know Wonder Woman's origins are full of the warrior mythos so there's that. But still, I can't help but think her superheroic nature always takes second place to her 'role' as a woman. And I think that's missing out on something.
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[Eleanors38]

4. Then there is Artemis, who is less a warrior and more

a protector who brooks no threat in no uncertain terms. But she doesn't go to war over it; just takes care of bidness. To me she is more interesting as the subject of an "ideal" than the Amazons because the interactions with men (and women) are rooted in individual hubris, sovereignty and their various encroachments. Some old Greeks were struggling with the same stuff.

[randome]

5. I don't collect any longer and I never saw much of Artemis when I did.

But yeah, that sounds like a more compelling character to me.
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