hot news: male reviewer of wonder woman has never heard of lesbians in his life, more at 7
“lives sexlessly without men”
Weak cishet males
Amazon Society: *produces a 12 volume work on the subject of pleasure*
Diana: When it comes to procreation, men are essential, but for pleasure, not necessary.
Male Reviewer: I guess that means they don’t know about sex!
Me: Harold, they’re lesbians.
I thought it was pretty clear that both women (but very obviously Antiope) had wives/partners who appeared in multiple background scenes. But even without that, uh wtf?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
A lesbian friend and I were discussing how cis men can’t handle any kind of sexuality that doesn’t center men. And this is just yet more proof. OMG.
isn’t it incredible that all the amazons wore skirts and various tank tops, and yet there wasn’t a single gratuitous panty shot or boob cup or camera pan up a bare leg?
it’s almost as though… women are regular characters… who don’t need to be absurdly sexy in order to make a scene compelling… how… odd
“It’s my favorite scene in the movie and it’s the most important scene in the movie. It’s also the scene that made the least sense to other people going in, which is why it’s a wonderful victory for me. I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people, they fight villains. So when I started to really hunker in on the significance of No Man’s Land, there were a couple people who were deeply confused, wondering, like, ‘Well, what is she going to do? How many bullets can she fight?’ And I kept saying, ‘It’s not about that. This is a different scene than that. This is a scene about her becoming Wonder Woman.’” –Patty Jenkins on the No Man’s Land scene
one of my favorite things about wonder woman that the film kept coming back to was the concept that people shouldn’t need to deserve to be saved. diana helps people not because they’re good, but because she’s good, and i think that’s so important.
i just read joss whedon’s entire wonder woman script and… it’s horrifying. it gets way worse than the screencaps i’ve seen. i italicised the worst parts that might be triggering. (mostly abuse, sexual harassment)
he completely skips diana’s backstory; the film starts with steve crashing the plane
steve doesn’t get saved by diana; instead he is taken to hippolyta, who wants to kill him
the story in general is told from steve’s pov
the descriptions of the women’s bodies are just pure male fantasies
i’m literally on page 18 right now and so far steve has been straight up a sassy asshole, interrupted diana, and guilt-tripped her by telling her that she makes his imminent death about herself, which she never did, then he ‘jokingly’ asks her out, gets rejected, and then says,“’let’s keep in touch’ is actually american for ‘get the hell out of my face’”
diana then demands a trial by combat and physically fights her own mother to save steve
we are given no actual reason why she leaves themyscira, she never says it’s because she wants to stop the suffering of innocent people
i’m on page 28 and so far steve has had 10 times more lines than diana
diana gets called a whore by a soldier and when she wants to defend herself steve tells her to “shut up”
another soldier calls her a “tasty looking girl”
the first time whedon calls her a hero is after she knocked out some random soldiers
diana is called a “stupid bitch”
whedon calls random women running out of their houses trying to save themselves whores
men keep calling diana “princess” in a condescending way
steve says he thinks diana is dangerous but he’s still attracted to her and wants her to “turn around so i can see more of you naked” and apparently diana finds that charming and “tries to hide a smile”
again, diana is called a bitch
“two thin supermodel types come up to him”
aaaand diana is called a bitch again. seriously you could make this a drinking game
“then she moves her leg back and turns, fluidly, a curve rippling up her body as she folds into a dance that is sensual, ethereal and wicked sexy” (whedon explicitly states that the men are staring at her)
“hot girl-on-swan action” is an actual thing that is said
diana is basically just a damsel in distress and steve has to keep saving her
when diana actually saves him for once, steve says “i hate this a lot”
steve to diana: “and it never occured to you that you’re the reason it’s getting worse?”
steve throws a hissy fit because he has an inferiority complex
“you’re not a hero, diana. you’re a fucking tourist.”
apparently diana only speaks english
when she is weakened by a fever, some men grab her and touch her inappropriately before they realise that she’s sick and apparently they don’t want to infect themselves so they push her into a pit instead (what the fuck? what. the. FUCK.)
“diana standing, legs wide”
on page 104 of 116, diana finally gets her suit (according to whedon that’s what makes her a superhero: “diana is a superhero now”)
steve admits he’s an idiot and diana kisses him
“your whole life on an island with women, and you can kiss like that?” followed by diana implying that she’s kissed women and steve actually says out loud that he’s picturing it, and he’s turned on by it
the movie ends with that.
we dodged more than a bullet with this, we dodged a fucking nuke. also, bless patty jenkins.
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