10 Things DC Wants You To Forget About Wonder Woman
3. She's A Feminist Icon
When new husband-and-wife creative team David and Meredith Finch got announced as the new duo behind the main Wonder Woman book, it caused just a bit of consternation. David's artwork isn't exactly stellar, and Meredith's a reasonably untested quality writing-wise, which made fans worry their run wouldn't quite match the standards of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's previous stellar tenure with the character.
Worst of all, though, was the pair's handle on the character. In an early interview, David Finch said the immortal words We want her to be a strong - I don't want to say feminist, but a strong character. Beautiful, but strong. Which is a misnomer on multiple levels, not least of which being that he seems to be treating feminism as a dirty word.
On another, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of Wonder Woman. She's been a feminist icon from the very start, being adopted by the movement early on and twice appearing on the cover of the progressive Ms magazine as woman of the year. When she was depowered, feminist critics came out against it. She's from an Amazonian culture which featured no men, for chrissakes!
Or she used to, anyway. From the looks of it - the Finch stuff, being Superman's girlfriend, a rejigged origin - DC isn't fussed about a feminist Wonder Woman.