I mentioned a few weeks back how much I hated Wonder Woman's lame costume. It seems the universe or at least DC comics heard my complaint and just introduced an "updated" Wonder Woman costume. At last! I don't know how they forgot her red boots. That was the one good thing she had going for her the last eight decades. But I'm glad she no longer has that bad perm trying to eat her head or that Awful Awful Awful star spangled miniskirt. I'm glad she got some pants. Still, I wouldn't mind her looking mightier.
What do you think?
One of my favorite things about comics, especially when I was younger, was the super strong female characters. I was reading an article about WW's new update and was depressed to learn:
New statistics from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media pertaining to female role models for young girls [show] in G rated movies, just one in three speaking roles is female and in PG and R rated films, about 73 percent of the characters are male. While there are notable exceptions, like Dora the Explorer and the girl superheroes in The Invincibles, young women are still hard pressed to find pop culture role models that look and sound like themselves.
So I wish Wonder Woman and her few surviving Amazonian sisters the best luck.
2 comments:
That's why it was so important to have some female super heroes in the Camp Kemo backdrop--great job.
As it relates to the G rated movies and girls only haveing a 1 in 3 speaking role--I wonder if's because the other 2 out of 3 are talking animals. ;)
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