re: Wonder Woman’s new origin
First of all, that’s exactly what you are doing. You’re accusing someone (who you do not know personally at all) of sexism based solely on the fact that they gave Wonder Woman a dad.
Second, I never said it was “missing” some Greek mythology. I said they wanted to more DIRECTLY tie it to the mythology. In the origin you sent me, Wonder Woman was a creation of the gods’. In this new origin she is a direct descendant of a god. She would in fact be PART god.
“You’re accusing someone (who you do not know personally at all) of sexism based solely on the fact that they gave Wonder Woman a dad.”
I assume you are responding here to me, as the person responsible for the original post. However, I can’t offer the rebuttal I’m practically certain you deserve from me, as I remain unsure who it is you think I’m aiming such a [le gasp!] horrid and indelible accusation towards. Unless it is [double le gasp!] every person ever?
On reread, I find that I was merely implying a connection between the inevitable, irreparable insult that any respectable male ego must suffer on its encountering a woman who has, on every literal level, never needed a man, and the recent and most necessary “repair” of her origin (by some small but fearless clade of men at DC Comics) to correct that error.
But, hey! Nevermind any of that! If the new Wonder Woman canon makes you feel slightly less empty in those existentially dangerous morning hours, you may reassure yourself that no amount of ladies being hysterical on the internet may take from you your justifications of the change as narratively satisfying and objectively unproblematic.
And smile to yourself, secure once again of your indispensability to the world.
And drift yourself gently back to sleep.
1. Could you be any more full of yourself?
2. By connecting this supposed “fear of Wonder Woman” to the changes in her origin you are accusing Brian Azzarello of sexism.
3. This change, in the long run, is not as major as people are making it out to be. She isn’t any less of the awesome, strong, empowered Wonder Woman she was before. In fact, by going against her own father and in turn a GOD she is even more awesome.
4. What Azzarello is writing has made Wonder Woman more interesting to a wider audience. If you don’t like his changes, then don’t like them. But don’t try to turn them into some big conspiracy DC is putting in place to connect every character to a man because they’re intimidated by a woman who has never needed a man.1. Oh, my. Yes.
2. So? Everyone’s a little bit sexist. You’re a little bit sexist; Well, I’m a little bit too. Admitting it is not an easy thing to do… But I guess it’s true.
And I wouldn’t single out Brian Azzarello. I don’t know how the rebooted DCU was stirred together, but I’m sure there are plenty of gatekeepers to share the blame. It’s the result that matters, and it’s the context of the result that matters.
I’m ALSO not claiming the original post is the end all of explanations. It’s only a conversation that I found, in retrospect, exceedingly interesting. You may draw your own conclusions from it.
3. This change is an insult. This change is a slap in the face. And if you don’t understand the outcry, it’s because you were not the one insulted.
4. Azzarello is good at what he does, no argument. In fact, I have enough faith in his skill that I think he’d have succeeded even if the “Zeus” thing was shot down as it should have been.
And please. No one is positing a conspiracy, except as a bleak joke. What DC’s more likely guilty of is groupthink, is putting together a crack team of creative minds who are working from a set of similar and unchallenged assumptions that… well.
Brought us to a point where bleak jokes about conspiracies are necessary, I guess.
If there are annoyingly loud cries of “sexism!” at the changes to Starfire and Harley Quinn, and at Supergirl’s bared and red-framed side-butt, and at an un-weighty Amanda Waller in a cleavage bearing shirt, and at Wonder Woman’s story shifting to be about her reaction to a Paternal Figure she never needed before…
At some point, there starts to emerge a pattern.
