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If you read the Guardian article (which the AV Club obviously can’t be bothered to do), you’ll see he doesn’t even use the word “feminism.” Rather, he’s saying that half of the moviegoing audience these days is female, and that audience deserves better representative characters than a superficial beautiful woman. WW

I can see the argument that Wonder Woman is a “feminist” film in an extrinsic sense—proving that a female led superhero blockbuster can be a massive success—but I don’t really agree that the content of the film, itself, is particularly feminist. Diana happily murders scores of Germans—WWI-era Germans, mind you, not

As you yourself quoted, she used the term “one blueprint”. This means that there are multiple and all should be available to female characters. There is nothing in her statement in which she denies that Wonder Woman is of a certain template. The point is that, as typical as it may be it’s been monopolised by one

Who, honestly, could possibly give a shit about the opinion of someone so out of touch with what people actually care about that he intends to make 4 sequels to a movie most of us think of as a rip-off of Dances With Wolves? James Cameron is well past his use-by date.

I´m happy that a female character got the lead in a superhero movie, I´m happy a female director got a crack at a huge budget blockbuster. But if you flip the sex of the main hero back to male and run it through in your head, it´s a pretty standard story for the genre. It didn´t break the mold or reinvent the wheel in

Finally, we get attractive feminist icons unlike that Sadie Hawkins who was so unattractive she had to beg men to go to a dance with her.

That is true.