The Logic Problem in Wonder Woman #7

[crabby_lioness]

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.

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[kiev4am.livejournal.com]

I was just reading the comments to the Kelly Thompson piece. Mark Waid high-five, go you :D

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.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

I was just reading the comments to the Kelly Thompson piece. Mark Waid high-five, go you :D

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.

[kiev4am.livejournal.com]

I saw a few other people saying 'what you said' and praising that post of yours, too. It was a perfectly succinct and exact nailing of the issue :)

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.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

I’ve been trying to find Steinem’s 1972 essay on Wonder Woman where she says t hat one of the things that makes Diana extra special is that she is not one woman against the world, but that she has sisters who will back her up when she fights the good fight.

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.