Originally Posted by
Korath
Just because Marston did it doesn't mean that it's good or even perfect feminism to be upheld for the end of time.
I can understand why Marston did everything he did when he created Wonder Woman, since women were even more oppressed then that they are now (which is saying something, because even as a man I can see plainly how unfairly they are treated simply because they were born girls and not boys).
It still doesn't meant that his work can very esily lean into putting the darkest aspects of Human nature on a pedestal, what with a perfectly healthy and very Advanced segregationist, isolationist society, made of perfect warrior woman and yet incredibly peaceful, whose Champion is The Perfect Woman born of no Man but from Clay. Oh, and they shun the outside world because Men are violent, stupid, stubborn, destructive, etc.
Am I really the only one who can't help but see it in the Amazons of Paradise Island ?
Am I really the only one off-put by it ?
How would you react if someone did the exact same thing albeit with only men, with the added bonus that the Outside World would be bad because Women would be said to be vainglorious, petty, stupid (and you can add every mysoginistic BS here, really) ? I hope you'd all find it disgusting and not something healthy to build anyone, let alone a hero.
Zeus being Diana's father doesn't change much of what I loath in the way the Amazons exist as a society in today's comics, since the Clay birth is the least off-putting in my eyes (even with the eugenistic/transhumanist undertones that I can't help but feel here, and I hate both of those "movements"), but at least it's a start.