Active or ambitious women were not only rare but often evil. Wonder Woman flipped this paradigm by embodying the strength, assertiveness, and independence usually associated with bad girls and villains in a positive heroic light. The Golden Age Wonder Woman was a blatant rejection of the good girl/bad girl binary and even offered a critique of the good girl role.
~ Tim Hanley
- - - - -I don't think Aurora has seen the Wonder Woman movie yet, but she gets the Wonder Woman concept - that women can be strong and wear capes. She probably mostly gets the capes part right now, but the strong part is a seed being planted. I think it will pay off.
Of course there will bumps in the road - like when her parents refuse to buy her an invisible jet or when they don't want to shoot bullets at her so she can practice with those wrist bands. They will just have to toughen up, though. Often strong women come from strong parents.
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