Male comic book heroes are wearing boots with soles, not boots that angle their feet like high heels. If the entire sole of Wonder Woman’s boots was as tall as the heel, they’d be some pretty sick platform shoes.

All you can say, and have posted repeatedly, about the “male gaze” issue is jiggling thighs.

Nope! The armor has history.

True. Sometimes I think the most damaging terrible thing that ever happened to strong female characters is the combination of words: strong female character.

It’s also just kind of sad to see people downplaying Sarah Connor because they happen not to like James Cameron. She is 20x the badass that Diana is, and isn’t required to be a masculine archetype (a female Superman, more or less) in order to be of significance in her own story. James Cameron isn’t articulating his…

Why does it have to be “woke”? Why can’t a “dumb comic book movie” have a deeper meaning to some people?

Yeah, I think that’s what he’s trying to get at, too. The most groundbreaking thing about Sarah Connor is that, at center, she’s a “bad mother.” And T2 just unflinchingly and unapologetically lets her be that. She’s just 100% pushing ahead through a gauntlet of society-wide gaslighting, and the entire time, her…

Yes, I can see already, reading this piece, that it deals far more directly with the costumes women other than Diana (who are not the focus of the movie, and are not the target of its male gaze) are wearing. Have you looked at her boots? They’re wedge high-heels, for crying out loud.

Those “inexplicable slits” are based on Roman battle gear and are there so that when she has to run, she can do so unimpeded.

Yeah, I mean. Take a look at Zynga, which IPO’d at $10, shot to something like $15, and is now valued south of $4 per share. Hot games come and go. Minecraft—which over years and years, proved itself to be an unstoppable force—sold to Microsoft for something like $2 billion. (Well, Mojang is what got sold, but Mojang…

Because someone apparently can’t handle detailed analysis, a repost:

And millions of women (and others) disagree, so...

I’m wondering, how do you think that tank top panders to the male gaze? What about how that is shot, and how the wardrobe is designed, leads you to make that suggestion?

Except that’s not what he’s saying. He’s lamenting the fact things don’t appear to have gotten better since 1991. Patty Jenkins directed a Zack Snyder movie the same way Snyder himself would have done. It’s not woke, it’s just another dumb comic book movie.

I think the core problem with all of your arguments is that you’re in love with blanket statements. HOAs are always bad.

See, that’s bullshit. HOAs have charters. The charters spell out what they can and can’t do. They spell out how often board meetings are held. Those board meetings are not closed-door sessions. The neighborhood can come to those board meetings and speak. The neighborhood can vote for and against people who want to be…

This is a mental exercise that’s flawed from the start, as it would be impossible for the movie to be “the exact same film” if it had a different director.

Here’s another thing about Gal Gadot (who yes, is gorgeous) and the costume - at no point are they shot all male-gazey. When we get our first look at Diana fully as Wonder Woman, she’s not being filmed to stir up boners in the audience, she is being filmed to show her strength, determination, and courage.

I served on an HOA board because some jackass in our neighborhood decided that they would sell drugs out of their house. This is an upper middle class neighborhood with kids riding around on bicycles’etc.

“an increasing number of homeowners so perversely attach themselves to the idea of home-ownership solely as an investment, that they think it should be their right to impose a layer of dominion over other people’s property” is just a long-winded way of saying “fuck off, I do what I want on my property,” which is…