Actually, the more I think about this - this probably supports my original theory, that this movie is actually going to be the Supergirl origin story, like the storyline of the series Superman/Batman, Vol. 2: Supergirl. Wonder Woman comes in at the end of that novel to take Supergirl in.

I doubt this will clean up the vitriol at all. All of the Gannett-owned newspapers went to Facebook ID log-ins for their comments 2 years ago, and the same racist, sexist, homophobic comments still appear, but attached to people's real names. People don't seem to mind owning their own idiocy at all.

Girls?! Who has ever heard of those?! Aren't they an obscure minority, or something? 51% of the population, you say? Where has this untapped market been hiding all these years?1?!

That was my point over on TheMarySue. They tried to shoot down that argument as "well, WW is supposed to be eternally young because she's immortal"... blah blah blah. She's only immortal in some of the story lines. They've changed her origin story and her powers dozens of times over the years. They leave the male…

Years ago, Oprah (I *think* it was Oprah) did a television program on "Women who love their pets more than their husbands" and my friend Jennifer appeared on it. She was hilarious. And she ended up divorced. Then she got remarried. And divorced again, now she's married to a wonderful guy who loves pets as much as she…

Lynda Carter is *still* amazing. I love her so much. She rocked that Wonder Women documentary about female superheroes.

Agreed. I like Yung because someone other than a white caucasian is a really refreshing idea. She'd need to bulk up a LOT though.

Oh, believe me, as a huge WW fan, I've heard every permutation of this bullshit dreck about being 'tricky.' It's sexist drivel, through and through. I can (and have) written pages upon pages about how and why WW could and should carry her own movie.

Just the fact that she's (potentially) showing up first in this movie makes me pretty rage-y. She can carry her own damned film. She doesn't need either of the other dudes to headline.

Wow, I hadn't read the book. I'd read a synopsis of it, but didn't realize that character wasn't even in the book.

Yes, but with the "buckteeth" comment and the name he gave, that's a pretty clear, specific reference to Mickey Rooney's character in Tiffany's. The way he phrased it: "films that had characters like" — he was indicating the broader category of those types of films, but being specific with the example. He could have…

I love that he references Breakfast at Tiffany's without actually naming the film. Like, don't give it power. I do enjoy much of that movie, but boy does that one racist character break it.

Yep, I love them too. My feet don't hurt for the first time in my life. Don't care what people think.

I understand your point, and to some extent it's a valid one but...

It definitely has in my earshot.

I think that might be more of a stereotype about the country music scene and it's relative safety for black people, but you probably got a point about cutting that sort of stuff out.

I think it's harder to blame it on the junior aide with the newspaper columns, though. Speeches he can pass off as staff responsibility, but the news columns should be his own work. So either someone else wrote them, which is untoward, or he plagiarized himself, which is quite a bit worse.You're right about…

Yes, and that column is much more of a problem, because ostensibly the column was written by Paul himself, and not a staffer. It's easier to brush off the speeches as the work of someone else, but there's an expectation that the column is his own work. So either he put the column off on a staffer, which is a pretty…

In general, we do apply this level of scrutiny to each of them. People frequently run the text of people's speeches and writing through plagiarism checkers these days. Usually politicians do it themselves for works that are written by their own staff, just to check. The internet makes it much easier to catch this…

very little practical application. In comparison to the impact that it has on women.