The Legacy of WONDER WOMAN

I originally wrote this in response to a friends blog, Confessions of a Geek Queen, available HERE. This of course, got my brain going, and now I have to follow/finish it up with a blog of my own. Thanks, Diane, for the idea.

I love Wonder Woman! I've always loved her and admired her to no end. I'm not terribly thrilled with her current incarnation as a war goddess and Superman's bit-o-fluff. I just can't see her as being that way. I think DC is doing her an enormous disservice in portraying her as a Barbie/Red Sonja cross. I think they're doing womankind a disservice, but that's been gone over and over. I still love Wonder Woman herself as a strong, capable, skilled woman who is respected by almost everyone who has ever been part of Geekdom. There are the few haters, but as the saying goes, there's one in every family.
 I also have never liked how all that so many guys can see is that she is scantily clad and has a good figure. But that, too, has been gone over ad nauseum and I guess guys just aren't going to change any time soon; soon being within the next billion centuries or so.

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

I really would love to see Wonder Woman in a major motion picture. There have been a couple made for TV, and of course there was the series starring Lynda Carter (Say what you will, I think she was great!) But I think the Great Amazonian deserves to have the same treatment that Thor, Ironman,  Bat Man and her boyfriend do. I would like to see it done with lots of action and a great deal of that Amazonian wisdom. 
And here's the splice to my friends blog...
Okay, ranting about a Wonder Woman movie aside, the thing I always loved about her is that she never compromised being a woman to be strong. What I mean by that is that she is as capable in the kitchen as she is on the battlefield. I realize that many, MANY people will take umbrage at that. One does not have to cook to be a woman. Yes, I know that. Nor does one have to sew, wear makeup or any number of other things to be a woman. I know that, too. I am, in fact, a woman so I do know these things. None the less I stand by that statement.
I, sadly, cannot quote you year and issue number, but I have seen her go from destroying enemy spies to making dinner for her boyfriend, Steve Trevor. Even if, as a friend of mine once insisted, she actually picked up the food from a restaurant and presented it as her own, that is still a valid point. Catering is a valid method for women to provide foodstuffs, just ask ask any executive, nurse, teacher or (ahem) binge-blog-poster.
Nor did she ever make any bones about not being able to do something. I have also seen her sweat over trying to sew a button back on to the same fellows jacket, then using her powers to zip out, get it done and zip back before he noticed her absence. And that was another fantastic lesson for us girls; Nobody Can Do Everything!
But we can do a lot!

This is Wonder Woman's true legacy in my eyes. We are women, and we can do a lot! If there ever is a Wonder Woman movie I hope they include THAT in the story, along with the bracelets, the lasso and the ever-adorable knee-high boots!