The Wonder Woman trainwreck keeps on keeping on

It's a dark time in the DC universe. The Wonder Woman title is still stuck in some kind of inexplicable AU timeline where Diana finally got to wear pants, in exchange for not being actually heroic or effective or competent or anything.

How the main universe and nu!Wondy are even supposed to make sense together (since Wondy Classic has been MIA since this started) has so far stayed a vague, wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey open question. And as such a pivotal turning point for Wonder Woman the character *and* the mythos, of course somebody decided that it would best to reveal such a crucial part of her superhero origin in Superman's book and make it all. About. Him. (See exhibits A, B, C, D, E, and F for Why This Is Stupid And Sexist As Hell.)

Naturally, jlbarnett, limitless source of the unfunny, is just plain oblivious to logic as well as patronizing, spawning a long thread about the nature of the phrase "calm down." Apparently being angry with sexism is the real oppression at work here. Who knew?

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chez_moi
2011-03-12 04:29 pm UTC (link)

I'd love to talk to you about it! In RL the only other person I know who watches it is my dad, haha. We used to have, like, a bonding thing together back when seasons 2 and 3 were on the telly. And he calls it Zeenee XD

I'm halfway through 6 now, but to my surprise I actually liked some of it. Joxer's gone which sucks, but the I really enjoyed the Beowulf 3-parter, possibly because I'm not that familliar with Beowulf to start with. I miss the days of Callisto, though - she and Velasca were possibly the most badass villain duo in all history.

Funnily enough, I found some really old fanfiction the other day - possibly the first stuff I ever wrote, on a notepad in my drawer from about 10 years ago. It's all about Joxer and Autolycus fighting over my Mary-Sue. Ah, youth.

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