Lepore's Evolution With The Birth Of Wonder Woman

I am very intrigued by Lepore’s article about feminism in the United States and how she shadows its evolution with the birth of Wonder Woman. The way Lepore provided an informed timeline of feminism in combination with the visual images of vintage Wonder Woman that vie seen so many times, in her bustier top and enormous breasts in her powerful comics, and then provided historically accurate instances of the treatment of women really made me take a step back and realize how monumental the invention of a feminist pop-culture comic hero really was. I couldn’t imagine a time in our history where there was such a strong, independent and inspirational visual representation of the American women while the real women living our country are being oppressed at the basic levels of humanity.
We cant have a woman as a heroine in a movie unless she is weakened or distracted by some sort of love interest, we do not see female characters in male dominated movies unless they are glorified sex symbols, they serve more as an object to be oogled than a rounded character that plays in the same league as the men. I love the response of model and actress Gal Gadot who denied an interviewer’s hint that she would not be a good Wonder Woman because she was small-chested, hinting that the only characteristics of a female hero that are important on the big-screen are her physical attributes (Lepore