Nancy Pelosi and the other 82 women in the U.S. Today I look around and see many women with force, strength, and power. It’s too bad they were shoved back into the kitchen in the 1950s. Some other “good women” of the 1940s were the Rosie-the-Riveter women who did “men’s work.” Who carried on very nicely, thank you, while most of the men were at war. Who was a “good woman” in 1943? I immediately think of Eleanor Roosevelt.
#Bulletproof bracelets and a magic lasso plus#
The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.”Ģ017: Marston’s thinking was certainly a product of his time. Women’s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. Not wanting to be girls, they don’t want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. )Ģ003: The Wonder Woman website quotes Marston as saying in 1943, “Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. (There aren’t any paradise islands in Shakespeare, not even Prospero’s island in The Tempest. Her mother was Queen Hippolyta, whom we remember from the story of Theseus…Ģ017: …and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which, alas, she is is tamely married to Theseus, Duke of Athens. Her magic lasso was forged by Hephaestus from links removed from Aphrodite’s Girdle. She was born on Paradise Island, known to no man, and trained in Amazonian martial arts. Her stories were first written by William Moulton Marston in the December-January, 1941, issue of All Star Comics.
(Note that I’m expanding what I wrote in 2003.)Ģ003: Wonder Woman, Diana Prince-Princess Diana-is a modern American Amazon. Here’s what I wrote about her in my book Pagan Every Day. But I digress.) I’ve been thinking about Wonder Woman since the election. Let’s call our courageous women heras and superheras. (Note that “hera” is not only the name of the queen of the Olympians, but it’s also the feminine form of “hero.” I’ve heard some women say “shero.” I guess that works, but it’s an ungainly word. But I always send my thoughts.Īnd so I have recently been thinking about a feminist hera who can inspire us resisters. I don’t go to marches and demonstrations anymore, mainly because it would be majorly inconvenient if I had an asthma attack right in the middle of when other people are trying to do important things.
Some members of this FAR community went to those marches and wrote about their thoughts and feelings in this space. We all remember the protests-and the pink knitted caps with the pussy ears-that filled the streets of our major cities after the inauguration of the Troll-in-Chief. Home › Activism › Do We Need Wonder Woman Today? by Barbara Ardingerĭo We Need Wonder Woman Today? by Barbara Ardinger
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