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AnarcheAmor wrote

So the sequel to the politically messed up movie is also politically terrible? I'll pretend to be shocked.

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jaidedctrl wrote (edited )

Was WW particularly political? I just remember glorifying US soldiers (political), and Nazi Germany having mutant juice or something..?

EDIT: Ok maybe the whole "savior" schtick that's inherent in superhero movies is sorta political? "We need a good guy with insane, uncheck power to save us!"

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AnarcheAmor wrote (edited )

Other things like Dir. Jenkins' choice to make Zeus the patron god and creator of Amazons and Diana's father, Ares being able to kill all the other gods and being the sole reason why Diana was born, and a whole list of other choices seems to be driven by some half-baked patriarchal feminism that rejects the woman-centric storytelling of traditional Wonder Woman storylines for something that wraps the women of the film in a blanket of male leadership and guidance that wavers between being subtle and overt.

If the patriarchy branded feminism doesn't turn you off, how about the cisheteronormativity? Remember that part where Diana tells Steve that men are only needed for reproduction just for her to turn around and fall in love with the guy (to the point that she remained heartbroken for his death for more than a century), or her reactions to a baby crying because of course, somehow, she knows how to be maternal coming from an island where babies outside of herself never existed, or her overall characterization basically being "born sexy yesterday"? Yeah? Well combined with the mentioned above love affair between her mom and Zeus, you start to see my problem.

Combine this with the already well noted politics surrounding Gal Gadot, superhero mythology, etc., and Wonder Woman is a blockbuster neoliberal cocktail of the worst kind. Keep in mind, this has been Wonder Woman's comic book trajectory for decades now but it hits a new low when you take Etta, the nazi-punching sorority sister, multiple time savior of Wonder Woman, and turn her into a secretary stereotype for Wonder Woman to make a quip and give us one those try-on haul scenes that pops up in every movie about a woman.

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