![]() ![]() It made her Amazon origin story clear she was stopping war, not perpetuating it her strength was communicating in 200 languages and she was exploring and learning without giving up her uniqueness. Each of us was-and is-a unique combination of heredity and environment that could never have happened before or again, and each of us has access to the full circle of human qualities.ĭid you see the Patty Jenkins-directed Wonder Woman film this past summer? What did you think of it? The old and by far the longest-running cultures didn’t have gendered pronouns of “he” and “she,” and women controlled reproduction. ![]() In fact, the gender roles of “masculine” and “feminine” were made up relatively recently in human history, by patriarchies in which men control reproduction and women’s bodies. It also creates one more obstacle to equality, because it’s what some men fear most-out of guilt-that we will do to them what they’ve been doing to us. It’s always flat-out wrong and dangerous to say that any group is born to dominate another. What do you think of William Moulton Marston’s contention that seeing women in a dominant way, sexual or otherwise, would teach boys and men to respect powerful women? As Robinson plainly put it in an interview with Vanity Fair, Steinem is “the woman who saved Wonder Woman.”Īngela Robinson directing on the set of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Steinem decided to raise hell, lobbying DC Comics to reinstate Prince back to her old stature, and later featuring Wonder Woman on the first issue of Ms. Back in the 1960s, Steinem was a huge fan of the DC comic, but was disappointed in the way that Diana Prince’s character had changed for the worse at one point, her superpowers were stripped away for an entire arc, debilitating the iconic character. William Marston created the character, basing her on his wife, Elizabeth (played by Rebecca Hall)-and his lover, Olive Byrne ( Bella Heathcote), who amicably lived with the couple for years.Īfter she finished making the film, Robinson began wondering if a certain real-life heroine would approve of it: Gloria Steinem, the legendary feminist who is also largely responsible for Wonder Woman’s modern-day incarnation. In the upcoming film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, director Angela Robinson explores the true story of the man who created the DC heroine, and the women he modeled her after. ![]()
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