Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: pleased

Wonder Woman

We went to see Wonder Woman today.  It was totally awesome.  Definitely one of the best superhera movies ever.  \o/  Lots of athletic women running around kicking butt.  Also check out the fantastic merchandise.  If you look closely at the dolls, you see they match the actress surprisingly well: reasonable breasts, a little hip, a fairly thick muscular waist, and nice powerful legs.  :D  Also the Amazons mostly weren't willowy.  They were trim and muscular, or beefy.  I lost count of how many times someone said "You can't ..." to Diana, and in the next frame they were looking around for her while she ran off doing it anyhow.  And that's feminism for you.

I have to look pretty hard to find flaws.  I did noticed that Diana's mother was an idiot.  (You made a baby Amazon, not a dahlia.  How could you possibly think she'd be a pacifist?)  It was just generally brilliant.

If you like watching women kick ass, go see this movie.
Tags: activism, entertainment, fantasy, gender studies, review
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  • 3 comments
fayanora

fayanora

June 3 2017, 04:03:21 UTC 4 years ago

There's merchandise? That's interesting. Last I'd heard, they weren't advertising or promoting it at all, aside from putting the trailers on YouTube.

I want to see it. My roommate doesn't. She says the woman playing Wonder Woman is too stereotypically white, thin, and clean shaven for her to suspend her disbelief; she wants a Wonder Woman with big muscles, who's black or at least Greek, and has armpit hair and leg hair. I basically told her, in so many words, that a starving man would be unwise to demand five-star cuisine in a barren wasteland.
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

June 3 2017, 04:16:09 UTC 4 years ago

I didn't see body hair, but there were a lot of black Amazons, including some of the brawny ones. It looked like someone threw together all the Mediterranean folks.
fayanora

Re: Well...

fayanora

June 3 2017, 04:17:50 UTC 4 years ago

Cool. Thanks!