I was flipping through a Wonder Woman comic collection, reached a certain page, then put it back down.

What was on that page? A guy- Hercules I think, showing up, and saying basically "Hur hur hur, don't you think you should let a man handle this?".

Of course Wonder Woman proved him wrong. Of course I think she even beat him up in the end. That's not the point.

This is one of the most commonly repeated stories in WW comics... and it sucks every time for the same reasons.

If you're in a world with/directly talking to a woman who can punch out battleships and is one of the three most famous heroes on Earth who fights gods and alien invasions, misogyny isn't just insulting, it implies a massive mental imbalance of the characters in question to the point of having a total disconnect with reality. Even if a character is misogynistic (and WW does have at least one misogynist villain who does not fall for this trap and who's stories are about 'how do you stop this psycho telepath?' and not focus on the misogyny every time), they have to be a total 2-d stereotype, and, even more importantly, every time, it means 2/3rds of a Wonder Woman story is centered around mysogyny! Take off the last 4-6 pages of each issue with this story and it's a misogynistic story. I do not read Wonder Woman for the misogyny.


If I'm reading a comic about an empowered/powerful female, I don't want any misogyny, let alone the bulk of it by page count. I don't care that Wonder Woman proves them wrong/beats them up in the end, it's really crappy writing to do so in the first place. It's the same story, despite the regular denouments it undercuts the point of the theme of the comic, and is just boring.