Originally Posted by
greatmetropolitan
Now, proviso, I haven't read a massive amount of WW, but I guess my potentially controversial opinion is that the Amazons are generally written as quite unlikable. Perhaps that's my feeling towards all warrior peoples (The spartans are douchebags, too), but I've never felt any great affection for the Amazons outside of Diana herself. Maybe it's the isolation from the rest of the world that makes them almost irrelevant to the DCU if you don't read WW comics. If they're not integrated in some fashion with the world outside of the bubble of the WW comics, then their absence can't be felt if they were to suddenly leave or be destroyed.
I think there was a period in the books when Themyscira had embassies and the like, and I prefer that take than the isolationsist island of perfection approach. The Amazons should be progressive, reaching out into the world to change it with love. They should be a force we feel and appreciate, and one we miss if it's absent. at the moment, outside of WW books, the DC earth wouldn't feel any different at all if there were no Amazons, and that's just plain wrong.