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athelindReblogging from my Tumblr, because it's much easier to find things in LJ:
I can think of no better summary of how thoroughly Wonder Woman has been co-opted by the aggressive values she was created to challenge than to note how regularly she is depicted with sword in hand. Marston would have identified the subtext immediately: to appeal to a reader base terrified of “emasculation”, they’ve given her a symbolic phallus.
I can think of no better summary of how thoroughly Wonder Woman has been co-opted by the aggressive values she was created to challenge than to note how regularly she is depicted with sword in hand. Marston would have identified the subtext immediately: to appeal to a reader base terrified of “emasculation”, they’ve given her a symbolic phallus.
