Wonder Woman Is "A Step Backwards..."

[Jaicee]

I consider myself to a feminist (and am female) and personally I LOVED the Wonder Woman movie! It's my favorite movie this year so far!

Sure, there are a few conservative (I observe most often male) morons who think that any display of sex appeal is automatically sexual objectification, but I'm not one of those. The important thing about Gal Gadot's character, in that connection, is that her sex appeal is an outgrowth of her agency rather than something that is simply imposed upon the character. The film treats her as sexy for being physically and intellectually strong, not for being victimized (or infantilized like a certain other DC female), and it's hardly the sole quality of Diana Prince as a character that we're presented with. The camera does not strategically linger in those places that we've come to expect it to from male-directed films either. It doesn't feel demeaning to me, but rather like just one more reason why the target audience wants to be her and finds her all-around awesome.

Would you like Batman as much if he looked very average rather than like an impossible ideal of masculinity? I doubt it. Superhero movies are fantasies. Power fantasies more specifically. It just seems to me like the critics of this movie don't get that and expect more realism than befits a character who is supposed to be a more or less all-around idyllic fantasy for women.

The lame-ass Baywatch movie is what sexual objectification looks like. This is not.