Finally,
we have a Wonder Woman film.
In the past 30 years of western pop culture (we'll get to Studio Ghibli in a moment too...)
we have Wonder Woman, Lt. Ellen Ripley, Buffy Summers and Foxy Brown.
You'll
have Wonder Woman glutes in no time!
This led to the idea of
having Wonder Woman climb a ladder out of the trench to reveal her full costume.
Every lady
has a wonder woman inside of her, begging to get out.
Hendricks would almost certainly be game — she told Rachael Ray last year that «I've been wanting to wear that outfit my whole life... I had Underoos —
I had Wonder Woman Underoos.»
Not exact matches
Time Warner's (twx) Warner Bros.
has a full slate of superhero titles (
Wonder Woman, Justice League, and The LEGO Batman Movie), and the studio is already seeing a lot of buzz around Blade Runner 2049, its long - awaited sequel to the beloved 1980s sci - fi movie.
«
Wonder Woman»
has a 92 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes and
had the biggest US box - office opening ever for a female director.
It looks as if the studio undershooting how well «
Wonder Woman»
would perform, along with its making plans to develop «Justice League Dark» and a Batgirl movie, led to its lack of attention to a «
Wonder Woman» sequel.
Wonder Woman's symbolic value
has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.
Still, our only
women presidents (among them, Selina Meyer of Veep, Laura Roslin of Battlestar Galactica, Allison Taylor of 24, and Mackenzie Allen of Commander in Chief)
have been fictional — like
Wonder Woman and Betty Boop before them.
Here's hoping
Wonder Woman can finally deliver what every superhero promises, but
has yet to achieve: a super heroine blockbuster that fans and critics can actually rave about.
For female professionals,
Wonder Woman has become something of a Rorschach test.
How many men, though,
wonder the same thing;
would they be treated differently if they were
women?
Wonder Woman has generated more than $ 620 million in global revenue since it hit theatres three weeks ago.
The movies» combined domestic box office ($ 105 million) is about what «
Wonder Woman»
had in its opening weekend.
We
've already marked a few
women's holidays this year — including International Women's Day (March 8) and Equal Pay Day (April 4)-- so you're well within your rights to wonder what exactly we're celebrating on Women's Equality Day this Saturday, Aug
women's holidays this year — including International
Women's Day (March 8) and Equal Pay Day (April 4)-- so you're well within your rights to wonder what exactly we're celebrating on Women's Equality Day this Saturday, Aug
Women's Day (March 8) and Equal Pay Day (April 4)-- so you're well within your rights to
wonder what exactly we're celebrating on
Women's Equality Day this Saturday, Aug
Women's Equality Day this Saturday, Aug. 26.
The image that
Wonder Woman projects (life - size cut outs of which
have already appeared at UNHQ) is not culturally encompassing or sensitive - attributes the United Nations expects all its staff members to embody in the core value of respect for diversity.
This meant that a five - months - pregnant Gal Gadot
had to slip into her
Wonder Woman costume in order to shoot scenes, which were later modified digitally.
In the U.N.'s case, that
would have meant keeping
Wonder Woman front and center.
The bottom line appears to be that the United Nations was unable to find a real life
woman that would be able to champion the rights of ALL women on the issue of gender equality and the fight for their empowerment.The United Nations has decided that Wonder Woman is the role model that women and girls all round the world should look u
woman that
would be able to champion the rights of ALL
women on the issue of gender equality and the fight for their empowerment.The United Nations
has decided that
Wonder Woman is the role model that women and girls all round the world should look u
Woman is the role model that
women and girls all round the world should look up to.
«All of the self - congratulatory back - patting Hollywood's been doing over
Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
Standing in the middle of «No Man's Land,» a battlefield given the name because no man
has been able to cross it before,
Wonder Woman takes on all the enemy firepower, allowing Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) and the other allied forces to sneak across the terrain and take out the German forces.
I think it's because I
wonder if they really are acting from their own intentions / wills or if they are merely pretending something because they
have been conditioned to or because they realize that
women will likely always be sexualized and objectified so they might as well be their own pimps.
I
wonder what
would be revealed if scientists
would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only
have one reference, and we ONLY
have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man
hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man
hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old
woman...
And yes of course Andy, your
wondering about how many guys a
woman has s - x with
has been a religious man's obsession for thousands of years.
I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it
'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people
wondering — why is this attractive
woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.
But what I
've always
wondered is, if there is an ultimate truth, why doesn't God stick it smack in our faces, so we can't make these mistakes of whether
women can preach and teach men, whether blacks can marry whites, whether slavery is OK, and whether we can worship with instruments or not?
I
have to
wonder how much of the «you're a slut» and policing
women's bodies / clothes is because men are trained to be afraid of their own bodies.
Take a look at the non-religious practices, evil creeps in, that leads to evil acts, you
wonder why a man
would keep 3
women locked up for 10 years in a basement, was it religion or atheism, which served the lauching pad that ended in this heinous result?
I
wonder if Doug
would even address a
woman like myself.
Having not realized there were
women prophets — which are now something of a specialty for me [Daughters of Miriam]-- I
wondered why folk ever
had a conversation about
women preaching when
women preached as prophets in the bible.
With honor and high regard for men and
women alike, it beautifully portrays the
wonder of what can happen when we take our places together and walk out the gifts and callings that God
has placed within us as His Church.
Then there was the time when a
woman I
had never seen before, obviously great with child, stopped at the door and rubbed her belly with what I took to be both
wonder and pride, and asked, «Will you bless my baby?»
«This research is fascinating, and it
has led me to
wonder about its application to
women in the church.
What it tried to teach me when i was a kid, people of color were punished by god,
women could only go to heaven if their husband invited them, there's alot to the mormon religion that
has not been let out, makes one
wonder.
Furthermore lieing to
women about how bad they
have got it, leading
women to feel oppressed it's no
wonder women feel bad and want to complain.
I
wonder is there a feeling of a need to speak up among
women to do so resulting in men feeling under pressure to be afraid to appear to be anything other than «nice», in the light of how
woman have sometimes been mistreated by men?
By the way, just
wondering, after menopause, do you think
women have any purpose?
They remind us of a perplexed wine steward who
wondered where the new wine
had come from, or a
woman who asked a visitor for the living water that he kept telling her about.
For decades,
Wonder Woman has been one of the comic book world's smartest characters, blending ideas about feminism and gender roles with big action sequences and compelling storylines.
Sometimes I
wonder how many
women in the church
have the gift of teaching, but will never use it, or even entertain the possibility of possessing it.
(I
have often
wondered how many Comp preachers screaming
WOMAN, SUBMIT!
Gender equality today
would be a non-issue, as simply presenting the valued opinion of a
woman would have done
wonders for setting the healthy example.
In looking at this list, I find myself
wondering what the world
would be like without these men and
women and their creationist belief inspired discoveries.
Later, my wife and I
wondered, How many
women had this doctor, with no compunctions, persuaded to terminate?
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and
women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the
woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No
wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
One may
wonder: If men behaved responsibly, lovingly and servingly towards
women, if there
would be as many lesbians?
And when a
woman marries a man with whom she
has a troubled history, we
wonder if she
has invested the ceremony with too much hope.
I sometimes
wonder if, as a man, I
have anything to teach you about being a
woman.