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crabby_lioness) wrote2012-03-27 10:53 am
crabby_lioness) wrote2012-03-27 10:53 am
The Logic Problem in Wonder Woman #7
This is a sequel to my post yesterday http://crabby-lioness.livejournal.com/86813.html and to this post on noscans http://noscans-daily.livejournal.com/513387.html If you're not up on the latest attempt to make Wonder Woman "edgy" read them first. I say "edgy" and not "realistic" because I'm about to discuss why it doesn't work.
If all the females are having reproductive sex once in their lives and magically all getting pregnant at the same time, BUT 49% of the babies are males (that’s standard) who are discarded, that means the population is shrinking by HALF with every generation. That’s not going to work. Didn’t these men even check their biology before writing this crud?
I solved this problem in my headcanon 30 years ago. The Amazons magically gather unwanted female infants who have been abandoned to die — a horrific practice that occurs throughout the world and even occurred in this country as late as the early 20th Century. That solves the problem elegantly in a way that enhances their reputation instead of diminishing it.
If all the females are having reproductive sex once in their lives and magically all getting pregnant at the same time, BUT 49% of the babies are males (that’s standard) who are discarded, that means the population is shrinking by HALF with every generation. That’s not going to work. Didn’t these men even check their biology before writing this crud?
I solved this problem in my headcanon 30 years ago. The Amazons magically gather unwanted female infants who have been abandoned to die — a horrific practice that occurs throughout the world and even occurred in this country as late as the early 20th Century. That solves the problem elegantly in a way that enhances their reputation instead of diminishing it.
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I really like your headcanon, too, btw. Makes perfect sense and is perfectly in keeping with the Amazons as originally conceived. (clearly the 'enhancing their reputation' bit is the reason this idea has never been adopted by TPTB...*snark*)
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My husband is a huge Silver Age DC fanboy, frequently arguing with me about why DC is better than Marvel. When I got back into comics a few years ago he'd often ask what DC was doing. I'd flail around helplessly and stammer, "Just don't ask. You don't want to know."
When the DCnU started I broke down and told him about the last three reboots. He was silent for a long time, then said, "So DC is courting the weak-willed beta male market." When I told him about the Starfire debacle he said, "That's it. We are never buying a DC comic again."
DC is supposedly doing all this to woo back older male former comic book readers. Around here at least its failing spectacularly in that regard.
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I don't follow comics, just the TV and movie adaptations usually, so I don't have any affiliations one way or another, but looking at the way DC is going lately... Batman is so faux dark and introspective that it would have even Kurt Cobain yelling at it to cheer the hell up; and now this. At least Marvel's kept its sense of humour. This summer, when I'm watching Robert Downey Jr throw himself repeatedly at a giant flying robot snake, I shall spare a thought for the DC fanboys. Actually I probably won't, as I'll be too busy watching Robert Downey Jr throw himself repeatedly at a giant flying robot snake. But you get the drift. ;)
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Although with both the Hulk and Fin Fan Foom there, shouldn't there be some giant purple shorts around somewhere? Everything is better with giant purple shorts. :P
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(god, I miss Nextwave).
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They seem to be dressing him in purple shirts. Whether that's a nod to the shorts, I don't know.
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In that case the purple shirts appear to be not only a nod to the giant purple shorts but to the New Age. Purple is the color of the crown chakra and the symbol of a fully enlightened individual.
That's far cooler than yet another round of "I must not get angry!" While the original is nice in small doses, it gets old eventually.
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I do still love the old TV series, which of course is very much about "Don't make me angry!", and a largely uncontrollable Hulk. That has been done, though. It would be good to see something a bit different.
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I can get behind that.
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You know, quite aside from the political asshattery of it, the other reason this plot is bad is that it's just so incredibly cliched, trite and done. A matriarchal society which is developed, compassionate and functional? Completely unique to comics. A killer tribe of eeeevil naked black-widow-spider sirens? The stuff of hundreds of bad Roger Corman-esque schlock horror comics/b-movies/pulps/fevered manchild fantasies. Creative and imaginative super-fail.
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Thank you. I didn't want to brag, so I stuck the link in a private post to cheer me up on bad days.
You know, quite aside from the political asshattery of it, the other reason this plot is bad is that it's just so incredibly cliched, trite and done.
And done better by some of those B-listers.
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I got into a bad temper and posted quite a few things on that thread in the end, even though I almost never do that any more. Some of the responses are so goddamn predictable, it should be funny; these people just see the word 'feminism' and spontaneously go apeshit.
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Steinem was used to seeing one woman against the world. Hell, she was used to being one woman against the world. But a strong woman who had other strong women who shared her values watching her back was awe-inspiring.
It still is.