Question Wonder Woman

It amazes me what people will get into snits over when it comes to films and what not. Take the coming Wonder Woman movie; People are upset that her pits and legs are shaved. The argument for the unshaven look is "Oh they never had contact with the outside world, why would they?"
Ah cause at least in the comics they did have prior contact as their culture is based on Greek and Roman culture, and those people where very into the personal grooming?

Oh hell just go read the Huffinton Post article. Or one of the others you can find if you search Wonder Woman's Hairy Pits.

I'm more interested if it's gonna suck or not. As Wondy was the highlight (for me) or Bat vs Supes... eh, I don't have high hopes.

I get triggered when someone uses that P-word. (not really, but it's fun to watch people react when I say 'triggered')
For that reason, the Huffing-and-Puffington Post is one thing I won't ever read. Period. And. Stop.

Well, seeing as Diana was a statue brought to life as a gift to Hyppolitya and I've never seen a Greek statue with hairy pits or legs I'd say they were doing it right and Huffpo can go huff and puff somewhere else.

JG wrote: Every time someone is incited to rant about the patriarchy online, an internet troll gets his bridge.

*Sits under the new bridge.* MINE!

E. E. Nalley wrote: Well, seeing as Diana was a statue brought to life as a gift to Hyppolitya and I've never seen a Greek statue with hairy pits or legs I'd say they were doing it right and Huffpo can go huff and puff somewhere else.

This, a thousand times this. I'm so happy someone mentioned it in this thread already.

You'd think all of 4 minutes of research would be involved when writing a story about this topic or repost of the issue. Even if someone had casually caught first 15 minutes of the 2009 animated movie on HBO or TBS or whatever else Time Warner owns. Diana being made of clay/sand has been canon since the late 80s. Her Golden Age incarnation was also influenced by bondage culture (her creator was an open fan of it). Heaven forbid HuffPo finds out about that. Some of the early comics are cringingly overt from a modern perspective.

Actually the new movie has her being the demigod daughter of Zeus.

Lame!

How is she supposed to be the symbol of the movement that will obliterate the patriarchy illuminati holding back the United States if she has a father?!

Praise Eris, at least she was born solely from Nyx...[looks at Wikipedia]...not you too!

/faints

Cryptic wrote: Actually the new movie has her being the demigod daughter of Zeus.

(it is also the case in the new52)

Well, there have been a number of different interpretations of WW's origin over time.

Back in the really olden days, she was just the daughter of Hippolyta. Soon enough someone figured out that there was a logical problem with her being born with no men around (and let's not delve into the weird reproduction oddities like parthenogenesis, it was the... sixties, maybe?), and they came up with the "made from sand" thing. I think it was already canon way before the eighties' revamp by George Perez, at least. Although the Seventies TV show WW had a younger sister (Drusilla, not the Buffy one), which posed even more questions about the lack of men on the island.

Anyway... George Pérez went with the "animated statue" thing, but one of the later writers (way before the New 52) apparently retconned the whole thing as a cover story for Hippolyta's affair with Zeus. (I wasn't reading the series at the time, so I don't know the details). That was around the time that she died, went to Olympus as the Goddess of Truth, Hippolyta was sent back in time to the Forties to become the World War II Wonder Woman, then Diana came back to life... yeah, confusing. The whole "Artemis-as-Wonder-Woman and Diana-wearing-blue-bike-shorts-and-a-jacket" phase was some time before that, I think. Yeah, even more confusing... I lost track of the whole thing, and at that time I was pretty involved (even professionally) with superhero comics. I don't remember where the John Byrne additions/retcons (such as the magical shapechanging invisible plane) came in, but I didn't like even the art in that, so I gave it a wide pass.
And yeah, all that mess was BEFORE the "New 52" reboot.