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Feb 01, 2017Eosos rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
What a fascinating story. Wonder Woman and her creator have deep roots in the early feminist/suffragette movement. Marston was either brilliant or demented, I'm not sure what. He was an obsessive personality, keen to make his lie detector test mainstream but coming across as a crank to those he tried to convince, including Hoover. His personal life was even more bizarre, and I'm not sure how the women in his life put up with him, his antics or each other. But somehow, it seems to have functioned in an unconventional kind of way. Though, the children all have different opinions on how well it really turned out. Still, his vision of what and who Wonder Woman would be, how she would behave and react, the basis for much of her straight from the feminist agenda, and his own dreams of success. Ever notice how often the lie detector test is in the Wonder Woman stories?? I like how he purposely kept her single, and happily single I might add, it's not actually that common in any kind of literature. Choosing to be single with a career certainly wasn't the accepted practice at the time and it's still not quite as accepted as it should be now, though I imagine it's better than it was. His personal life could either be considered the most anti-feminist thing going or the epitome of the perfect feminist life, I suppose it depends on your own personal views. I'm more in the rather anti-feminist camp with this one but at the same time, it was a challenge to the mainstream, even if not advertised, out the box thinking can be just as important to a movement, if just to get anyone to realize that everyone doesn't have to act, be or think the same to be acceptable.