2. Not A Feminist
Ms MagazineGreat though Chiang and Azzarello are, their run on the Wonder Woman title will soon be coming to an end. Replacing them will be the husband-and-wife team of David and Meredith Finch, who have already been causing controversy with regards to how they'll be handling the character. Specifically this outrage has been centered on David Finch's comment that "we want her to be a strong -- I don't want to say feminist, but a strong character. Beautiful, but strong." Which is pretty ridiculous on several levels, but we're going to stick purely with his contention that Wonder Woman isn't a feminist, which many other comics fans latched onto in agreement with Finch. Now's the time to bring out the big guns because, gentle reader, we are going to tell you the frankly amazing and insane story of Wonder Woman's creation. No, we're not going to try and untangle the mess of Diana Prince's various origin stories again - lord knows that Pandora's Box doesn't need to be reopened - but the backstory of how the learned William Moulton Marston came to invent the first great female superhero. Marston imbued the character with several elements of his own personal life, including his hand in the invention of an early lie detector influencing the Lasso of Truth - but where his own beliefs most strongly affected the depiction of Wonder Woman lies in the bedroom. Marston, for the majority of his life, lived in a polyamorous relationship. That meant that he was married to one woman, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, but the both of them were also involved in a relationship with the younger Olive Byrne. A lot of this was down to Marston's own belief that women were the far superior gender to men, and that things would be much better of if they were in charge. Hence Wonder Woman coming from the all-female Amazonian islands to see how the Patriarch's World worked, why she was involved in multiple storylines about women's right to vote and pro-choice initiatives, and why she's been featured on the cover of influential feminist magazine Ms twice. She's been a feminist character from the very beginning, and continues to be so.