The new Wonder Woman trailer: Peak 'nasty woman'
'm not a comic book geek. I don't really know Wonder Woman's story. But when I watched the trailer for Wonder Woman, I felt a surge of giddy pride and bittersweet emotion.
For one of the first times in my life, a female superhero is the star of her own blockbuster film. She's not a sidekick, love interest or arm candy. She's fierce, brave and physical. And she considers it her "sacred duty to defend the world."
A lot of women feel that way, actually, but we've almost always been relegated to the margins of the hero's journey. We become the mother, the mistress, the witch, the hypersexual nemesis. Never are we on the front lines battling evil.
If you watched the viral video of the woman who voted for Clinton and then sat in her car crying, shaking and laughing, remarking, "I got to vote for a woman for president," you know that the sadness of not seeing yourself reflected in pop culture and politics is something serious. It's a psychic longing to feel that society recognizes your worth and value combined with the pain of realizing they don't or haven't simply because of your gender.
When I clicked play on the Wonder Woman trailer, I was still tethered to reality. I knew I was consuming a marketing campaign... But for two minutes, I felt myself drifting into Wonder Woman's skin, imagining myself fending off evil-doers with might and wit, feeling high on the conviction of acting for a greater good. My bet is that countless nasty women are doing exactly the same thing.
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