Wondy 33

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Four pages from today's Wondy.

So, the sea monsters from the preview attack the island. The amazons fight back. Ares shows up.



WHUT. She won't kill Genocide, but she will kill Ares? She can kill Ares? Since when? He's the god of war. The whole point of him is that he outclasses her as much as Clark outclasses Jim Gordon.

They're on Thalarion at this point, and Zeus shows up and is all "be a wife and mother, and oh I killed Kane."





When WML does a better Polly than Gail, something is badly wrong with the universe.



... yeah.

On the plus side, I've had to cut back on luxuries recently and I've been waffling over what titles to cut, and this makes that decision easier at least..

Comments

Re: that's how we like it here.

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Coincidentally, these are all also signs of weakness

It's funny how not being able to ask for help is also a huge weakness, but someone who doesn't ask for help always retains that veneer of being tough guy.

because it's a refutation of the idea that a woman has to be *like* a man, has to discard all things feminine

Yes! It took me forever to realize that if I liked or wanted to do traditionally feminine things, that didn't mean I was buying into sexism or sexist culture.

(I would even go so far as to say authentically feminine, to delineate this argument from the "women who don't shave" bullshit)

Not quite sure I follow you, there.

But I do think that "women who are heroes in traditionally masculine ways" are fairly well represented, comparatively, while "women who are heroes in traditionally feminine ways" are bare on the ground like snow in March, and we need Diana out there carrying that banner.

Agreed. Suddenly I'm picturing a superhero in a bright pink costume. Misfit could totally pull that off.

You know, I would really like to see a scene where Babs and Diana meet for the first time. Probably set during her Batgirl years. I can see a younger Babs being less of a feminist than she would become later on. I mean, obviously, she's not going to buy into anyone's "she's just a girl" bullshit, but in terms of dealing with other women, I can see there being a touch of misogyny on her part. I think it's the part in Batgirl: Year One, when she's at the costume store and the store clerk says he has a WW costume, and her reaction is a condescending "Please..." or something similar, that's influencing me on that.

Especially if they got onto the topic of feminism for whatever reason, I can see Babs being all "Psh, I took Women's Studies 101, I know everything about feminism." And then Diana would make some observation that would make Babs think twice and re-examine.