Wonder Woman Gets a Woman's Point-of-View

theodp writes "Traditionally, comics have been by, for and about men. But more and more women are breaking into the traditional boys' club. Beginning with Wonder Woman #14, the superhero's tale is being told by Gail Simone. It's a break from nearly 66 years of being written for the most part by men. '[Her work as a blogger] led to a writing job for the all-female comic 'Birds of Prey' for DC--which became a short-lived, live-action TV series--and in turn won her the "Wonder Woman" job. Simone says she sees a change since she wrote her refrigerator rant 10 years ago. 'At that time, the trend was towards grim stories where female characters were killed,' she says. 'We only had a handful of female characters to look up to. Today we're not seeing those stories so much.'"

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There's a reason for it.

[Token_Internet_Girl]

Jack Nicholson was once asked in a movie, "How do you write about women so well?" to which he replied "I think of a man. Then I take away reason and accountability." Comics are boys club because boys don't want to read soap opera emo trash. Not that I'm a traitor to my gender, its just that its true. So maybe if this chick can bring those two little spices into the comic, she deserves to write it.

Cooking

[Tweekster]

Makes perfect sense, she really should be cooking and cleaning. and as another poster mentioned, skimpy bikini is preferable.

Why do women wear white on their wedding day?
so the dishwasher matches the oven

Re:typical

[rednip]

Feminists always come with arguments on how women are the default victims and stuff, and assume that women have no issues whatsoever.When feminists speak, there's always a logical explanation for a woman's actions. But a man's actions always fit in the rape-murder-domination-masculine_insecurity category.

I didn't say that there aren't any psyco bitches, trust me, there are plenty of them and most don't even call themselves feminists. However that wasn't germane to the conversation. Nor did I say that all men are like that, I'm a guy and that's not me. I just said that one is more likely to find a man (or a woman for that matter) of that ilk than the above described militant feminist. Hell, I've only seen them on TV, the loud mouths always end up on TV, it's good for ratings.

Hell, it still amazes me that you guys seem to be making excuses for the original troll, somehow pretending that he had a point and was right to bully a woman on her significant accomplishment. !Nice.

Culture of fear

[rednip]

Please tell me how the OP in this thread was somehow 'right'. People (including women) have been using the specter of the 'scary feminist' for so long it's gotten really old, but I'm sure that your glad that women can be random attacked in such manner. In particular when they dare to enter a male realm.

The problem with many (not all, many) feminists is that they really don't give a damn about empowering women (which I'm all for BTW)

Really? All for? Sounds to me that your tolerance only last until they speak up for themselves and express their own opinions. Of course you'd probably object if I called you a right wing tool, and while it might be fun do so, there is a chance that I'm not entirely right, but hey, you're quick to judge harshly, so I should as well.

They've got their own agenda that has to do with taking power away from the "rich white man" and then using it to "get even" with him for all the bad things that he's done.

So, these evil feminist are like the Black Panthers. Wow, f*****g culture of fear. The tell you of the most fringe elements of any movement, not even a complete picture, and you take it as gospel. Ditto heads, go figure.