Feminisms that don't seem feminist enough in Wonder Woman on my dreamwidth

I've had this recurring idea of a story involving an Amazon named Venelia, which was a name Bill Loebs used in "The Contest". So when I saw this (I haven't been keeping up with the movies) I was thrown.


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OK, I have seen the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer now, twice; and I do not know which Cheetah that is (but I assume it is a Cheetah because of a promo image someone linked on scans_daily) nor how they brought back Steve ( Read more... )

Rassin' frassin' freakin' Amazons.

For years, the Amazons in my head have called each other variations on "sister" because, well, because of the way Artemis called Diana "little sister" in Artemis: Requiem. Well, yeah, they are a sisterhood, right ( Read more... )

I bought Grant Morrison's Wonder Woman: Earth One in hopes of snarking about it online with bluefall, with whom I deludedly imagine I have some kind of fandom-based friendship.

Yeah. Well, it shows some research, but then so did Phil Jimenez's Wondy run, and we saw how that went. But I hadn't been real pleased with the first volume of Superman: ( Read more... )

Recently, I found a graphic album of something called Fever Moon at the public library. It had art by the late Al Rio, so I checked it out. When I finally, weeks later, sat down to read it, the author's foreword surprised me: Karen Marie Moning ( Read more... )

I'm back from my local comic shop. They seem to have an iffy relationship with my orders, but the proprietor is trying ( Read more... )

I've probably said part of this before, back when Rucka was writing Wonder Woman, but I'll say it again. Wonder Woman is not a "Greek tragedy," nor are the Amazons in Wonder Woman meant to be "consistent with their portrayal in Greek mythology," whatever "Greek mythology" means.

Wonder Woman is a modern pop-culture concept, and if anything an ( Read more... )

Why Steve Trevor is the best male role model ever - Will Shetterly...Wonder Woman has been saving Trevor's butt for as long as she's existed, and he's never been threatened by it, nor has he ever been emasculated by it. As I've said before and will say again, that relationship is my model for my relationship with Emma ( Read more... )

Here's the link: http://www.themarysue.com/wonder-woman-36/Read more... )