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The night before last The Ex, The Lodger and I happened across a fantastic programme on the Biography channel called 'Comic Superheros Unmasked' or the like.
It basically traced the beginnings of american comics right up to the present day. It only focused on Marvel and DC which was a small disappointment, but it had many fabulous interviews with various authors and writers including Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee, Alan moore etc. Frank Miller in particular came across as an extremely witty and likable lunatic, with a virtually pathological hatred of Superman. Very endearing!
Needless to say I sat and *squeeed* like a lunatic through most of it seeing as comics were a *huge* part of my adolescence and it was too wonderful to see the subject treated with some intelligence.
Anyway I digress, in the early part of the programme they explained how Wonder Woman was the first female super hero. She was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston. Now, I'm familiar with the story of Wonder Woman but have never taken a great interest in the character. She was always a bit too 'superhero-ish' for my liking.
Imagine my surprise then to see all the early editions of Wonder Woman they showed. Talk about different! The narrators cheerfully explained how most of the controversial material that made up Marston's Wonder Woman stories at this time seemed to get overlooked by the 1950 censors.
Examples were then shown, such as sorority girls dressed up in baby clothes or getting their behinds paddled by hooded sisters, Amazon warriors playing games of bondage and submission with each other, women masquerading as men to villainous ends, Wonder Woman getting tied up and spanked by little girls *and* losing her Amazon strength every time a man chained or bound her (which happened virtually every episode).
Apparently Marston always succeeded in defending his ideas. For him, Wonder Woman was not a role model for girls but the vehicle through which he would get young boys used to the idea of strong, dominating women. He believed that the next century would see the subjugation of men by women, and that, through domination, women would create a more loving society!
*Spangle* I need to go read some old Wonder Woman!
Most amusingly of all the narrators then related how Marston loved two women and had two children with each of them; all seven lived as one big, happy family. One of the women apparently always wore a set of metal wrist bracelets much the same as those modeled by Wonder Woman.
So there we go, Wonder Woman *is* apparently a BDSM icon and I will never look at her in quite the same way again!
Dude!
In other news, one of my RL friends has just done the artwork for the new Masters Of The Universe DVD. Eamon darling, you *ROCK* with mighty fists of steel. Go here to admire his work. For truly *he* has the 'power of Greyskull'
Oh and if your bored why not Sell Your Soul
My free quotation said:
"Your soul is worth £10420. For your peace of mind, 77% of people have a purer soul than you."
I am Em's *complete* lack of surprise!
The night before last The Ex, The Lodger and I happened across a fantastic programme on the Biography channel called 'Comic Superheros Unmasked' or the like.
It basically traced the beginnings of american comics right up to the present day. It only focused on Marvel and DC which was a small disappointment, but it had many fabulous interviews with various authors and writers including Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee, Alan moore etc. Frank Miller in particular came across as an extremely witty and likable lunatic, with a virtually pathological hatred of Superman. Very endearing!
Needless to say I sat and *squeeed* like a lunatic through most of it seeing as comics were a *huge* part of my adolescence and it was too wonderful to see the subject treated with some intelligence.
Anyway I digress, in the early part of the programme they explained how Wonder Woman was the first female super hero. She was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston. Now, I'm familiar with the story of Wonder Woman but have never taken a great interest in the character. She was always a bit too 'superhero-ish' for my liking.
Imagine my surprise then to see all the early editions of Wonder Woman they showed. Talk about different! The narrators cheerfully explained how most of the controversial material that made up Marston's Wonder Woman stories at this time seemed to get overlooked by the 1950 censors.
Examples were then shown, such as sorority girls dressed up in baby clothes or getting their behinds paddled by hooded sisters, Amazon warriors playing games of bondage and submission with each other, women masquerading as men to villainous ends, Wonder Woman getting tied up and spanked by little girls *and* losing her Amazon strength every time a man chained or bound her (which happened virtually every episode).
Apparently Marston always succeeded in defending his ideas. For him, Wonder Woman was not a role model for girls but the vehicle through which he would get young boys used to the idea of strong, dominating women. He believed that the next century would see the subjugation of men by women, and that, through domination, women would create a more loving society!
*Spangle* I need to go read some old Wonder Woman!
Most amusingly of all the narrators then related how Marston loved two women and had two children with each of them; all seven lived as one big, happy family. One of the women apparently always wore a set of metal wrist bracelets much the same as those modeled by Wonder Woman.
So there we go, Wonder Woman *is* apparently a BDSM icon and I will never look at her in quite the same way again!
Dude!
In other news, one of my RL friends has just done the artwork for the new Masters Of The Universe DVD. Eamon darling, you *ROCK* with mighty fists of steel. Go here to admire his work. For truly *he* has the 'power of Greyskull'
Oh and if your bored why not Sell Your Soul
My free quotation said:
"Your soul is worth £10420. For your peace of mind, 77% of people have a purer soul than you."
I am Em's *complete* lack of surprise!