How many of our readers watched at least one episode of Wonder Woman? I mean seriously, it was pretty darn cool. Wonder Woman had an invisible plane, a golden lasso, and gold cuffs as part of her Super Power tool kit.
Strong, confident, and kicked butt every week. Good prevailed and evil lost every single time.
Fast forward to this year. A new Wonder Woman movie is coming to a theatre near you.
However, the movie has not been without some controversy. Weird, intolerant, and stupid controversy at that.
Wonder Woman doesn’t even come out until June, but people are already complaining that the movie is not feminist enough, because the superhero is conforming to unrealistic, patriarchal beauty standards by not having visible armpit hair.
Yes, you read that correctly. Then we have the intolerance at the United Nations. Lynda Carter was named as an Honorary Ambassador to the UN in order to help empower women and girls. However, there were complaints from UN staffers. A lot of them. They took issue with her costume and deemed it sexual exploitation. They also took issue with the fact that she is white. Lynda fired back at her critics and well…Oops.
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