I think, as far as I can remember, that I've stayed out of the Deep Fuckery that seems to be DC comics these days. I kind of felt like it was best to just wait and see where the bodies fell and then watch which ones rise back up. I even stayed quite as Starfire giggled her way back onto the scene, because I think a lot of people made strong points about that.
However, now that it has been announced that Wonder Woman will have a new origin story, I just can't stay quiet. Because this fundamentally sucks.
They are making it to where her father is Zeus. Zeus! One of the biggest rapist in the history of rapists! This man has no morals, no respect for women, no respect for those who are of lesser station than him, no respect for anything. He doesn't deserve to be tied into the Wonder Woman mythos. It sucks that he's tied into the stories of the children he already has.
It's not that this makes her powers stem from a man. Okay, that is part of it. Wonder Woman has always been powered by females (either through Aphrodite blessing her or by being gifted from Athena on her creation). To stem her power back to a man is insulting and shitty and undeserving of this character and what she stands for.
The bigger issue, however, has to do with the how and why of this. Having Zeus for a father means that her mother had sex with this total bastard. Which means, unless they make her mother a non-Amazon, either an Amazon was raped by Zeus or for some insane reason that defies the logic of everything this culture stands for, willingly consented to having sex with this rapist fuckwit. Either is bad.
This is truly one of those times when I'm at a loss as to what the writers were thinking. How could they possibly see this as a good idea. Oh wait. They claim it was because "everyone needs a father" and "this will make it easier for people to relate to her."
No, not everyone needs a father. Not if there is a perfectly reasonable and, by the mythology of the culture, plausible explanation of why she doesn't have one. And no, one does not need a father to be someone others can relate to. What? Do you feel like that unless a man is involved, the character is missing something? Really? Because she's not.
And what will she get in exchange for this donation of rapist sperm? Daddy issues? Pissed off crazy Hera trying to kill her? Crazy siblings trying to bother her? The same bullshit rehashed stories that we find with every child of Zeus and their storylines?
Yup. I bet that is exactly what we will get.
No comments:
Post a Comment