And that we can do anything men can if not more, and we have the strength and stamina to do everything.” And when I asked Hannah Sayer, a freshman Animation major at Drexel University, she immediately said, “The Wonder Woman movie is going to save the world,” followed quickly by “All her morals are exactly what America needs right now - the idea of a hero who knows it isn’t always best to jump forward and attack, but to see how you can make peace first. She made me realize that a woman didn’t need a man to save her.” When I asked Brooke Blumenstock, a sophomore Directing, Playwriting, and Production major at the University of the Arts, she told me that, to her, “he represents the good old fashioned "We Can Do It!" mentality women can do anything we set our mind to. When I asked my mother, who was born during Gloria Steinem’s feminist crusade, what Wonder Woman meant to her, she replied with, “She is special because she was the first female superhero that I really encountered. Wonder Woman is one of, if not the only, independent female superheroes who is consistently marketed on regular basis to women and girls, and as such, is one of the only beacons of all that a female superhero can represent.
This answer, obviously, is different for everyone, and is influenced by different periods of Wonder Woman stories. And, within the past year, she was made an honorary UN ambassador.īut what is it that makes Wonder Woman so wonderful? magazine, publishing compilations of her 1940s adventures that had inspired Steinem as a child to become the feminist icon she is considered to be. In the 1970s, she made a comeback thanks to Gloria Steinem, who rebranded her once again as a feminist icon in Ms. In the 1950s and 60s, she relapsed as women were pushed out of the workforce as World War II came to an end, eventually being pushed to the role of a plainclothes hero, working as a spy under her alterego of Diana Prince, longing for the affections of her companion Steve Trevor. Namely, she fought for women and for the citizens of the United States, the country whose morals she had sworn to protect upon leaving her Amazon paradise of Themyscira to, essentially, save the world from the wars of man.
In the 1940s, she fought constantly for equality between men and women, fighting against Nazis and misogynistic criminals who posed a threat to those she chose to defend. Throughout her 75 years of existence, Wonder Woman has served to represent the role of women in American society - she has been an ideal woman, one for others to look up to in a time of need.
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