Although Wonder Woman was born in 1941, she is now on the BIG screen letting you know that even at her age she can still kick butt!

CBS  Sunday morning recently did a segment on Wonder Woman to coincide with the movie opening.  In 1941 DC Comics publisher Max Gaines was concerned that comics were too violent and he turned to William Marston for his input.  Marston was a psychologist and author.  Marston suggested they needed a female superhero. “She’ll be essentially a pacifist. She’ll fight for democracy, but she will be fighting for equal rights for women. And her super powers will be love and truth and beauty.”

Marston was very much influenced by the suffragist movement from his days at Harvard in the early 1900’s.  In the early comics Wonder Woman was frequently breaking out of chains.  Marston said “She’s gotta be chained up so that she can break herself free”. Harvard professor Jill Lepore (author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman) said “No one ever rescues her; she rescues herself.”

As a fashion aficionado, I was interested in how they would costume our superhero Diana in the new movie. Since it is an origin story she was clad in Amazonian fashions from the times of the island of Themyscira. Over the last 76 years Wonder Woman has been in various forms of dress that reflected the times. There was a big debate about whether or not the original Wonder Woman was wearing a skirt. Actually it was culottes (I TOLD you styles recycle).  How could they risk a skirt flying up over her head when she was doing battle?

And then there is the Lasso of Truth. Wouldn’t it be something to have one of these lariats?  Anyone it captures is compelled to tell the truth. WOW.

All in all, the movie is a fun action packed story and I look forward to sequels.

What I would really love to see is someone, female or male, show up with wrist cuffs that can deflect all of the negativity flying around today.  And as Diana Princess of Themyscira says, Only Love Can Save The World. What a concept.