As a fellow Wonder Woman fan I can say that they're new choice of costume and retconed past piss me off. If they wanted to give her a new look why didn't they put her in an awesome AMAZON outfit? With a great breast plate and a Greek/Roman inspired skirt?! Dude! Dude. And her new story? What the hell? How many more super heros do we need with dead parents?!
Yeah. Although their ideology is coming from a long-standing, knee-jerk, old feminist viewpoint of not catering to male's desires to have it all hanging out there. I always saw Wonder Woman as like Superman, that idealized version of a person so as to make her a "superhero." I couldn't take the Wonder Twins seriously because, well their powers are basically useless without each other, and moreover, their style was kinna Disco-era and not relateable to me at all.
But this "21st century WW" may just mean something a little more realistic than her 2in waist and +DD breasts.
Oh, no, not women specifically, I don't think anyone at DC (or for that matter the comic industry) listens to any one person specifically, and it's always been very, very male-dominated and catered-to, but that their "21st century" upgrade is from an extremely generalized suggestion from over 50 years ago. They're not usually up with the times.
Re: Wait!nrrrdy_grrrlNovember 19 2010, 07:42:25 UTC
The thing is: I didn't grow up celebrating either of those characters. Wonder Woman and Batgirl were far more visible. And Wonder Woman was her own thing, not an after thought. And even if Batgirl was lumped in with the Bat Posse, she managed to hold her own and also modelled the idea for me (as a little kid) that smart and strong and sexy were not opposing ideas.
Powergirl's costume is really dependent on the artist. In some incarnations it's just a clevage window. Then you get other artists who draw it so large and low that a: unless her nipples are on the underside of her breasts, thry'd be showing and b: no boobs of any kind, fake or othwise, would be able to stay covered and not fall out.
"Powergirl's costume is really dependent on the artist."
Ironically, Powergirl is just the result of DC trying to make Supergirl more sexually alluring to boys and thus increase sales. As a marketting strategy, it worked because sexually immature audiences tend to gravitate towards exaggerated displays of gender stereotypes.
IMHO, any superheroine who aspires to be "taken seriously by the menfolk" needs to rethink her aspirations. I am so hoping you're right about that temporary insanity theory and that the Wonder Abaya will be trashed soon enough.
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As a kid Wonder Woman was my idol.
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But this "21st century WW" may just mean something a little more realistic than her 2in waist and +DD breasts.
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Also: your icon is brilliant.
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I know. She should have been Super Woman a long time ago.
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EXACTLY! There are so few women characters in comics who were designed to stand alone, not as a member of a group or as a sidekick!
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Ironically, Powergirl is just the result of DC trying to make Supergirl more sexually alluring to boys and thus increase sales. As a marketting strategy, it worked because sexually immature audiences tend to gravitate towards exaggerated displays of gender stereotypes.
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