The ‘F’ Word: Wonder Woman’s Feminism Shouldn’t Be Covered Up

[el_bryanto]

4. Another article on the Wonder Woman Change

This article is from Kelly Thompson writing at Comics Should Be Good.

There are so many problems here it’s hard to know where to begin. But before we start, let’s have some clarity on the word Feminist. Here’s what it means:

fem·i·nist [fem-uh-nist] adjective Sometimes, fem·i·nis·tic.
1. advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men. noun
2. an advocate of such right

It’s not a bad word. In fact, it’s a wonderful word. It means great and positive things for all people.

Yes, there are outliers that believe something different than this, something more extreme, but there are always going to be outliers and extremists. And I’m sorry that a whole bunch of people in the world want to use the outliers and extremists of feminism to jettison a belief in equality, but it’s simply not acceptable for reasonable people. Not in 2014. Sure, there are nuances to feminism, but I assure you, when the average person calls themselves a feminist it simply means they believe in equality. So the question isn’t why are you a feminist, the question is why isn’t EVERYONE a feminist. We need to change this wrong-headed perception NOW so that instead of people scrambling away from the word feminist, they are ashamed to identify as anything BUT a feminist.

I hope I'm within the rules for quoting - it's quite a long article but very worth reading. It does seem like DC are making a mistake here.

Bryant