Wonder Woman (Chapter 6)

(Photo Taken by:http://www.watchingamerica.com/thenationpk000025.shtml)


(Photo Taken by:http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html)

I think back in the 1960's when wonder women was first introduced to America she was shown as just a heroine. She had on the American flag colors accented with gold, to show she was for this country and she would do anything to protect us. Her uniform was very form fitting but she had on a long dress. To me its like identifying that she is defiantly a woman and can still fight crime in a skirt. Now up to date wonder women is more seen as a sex symbol. She has on tighter outfits that barely covers her up, and she no longer has a dress on, its just underwear. So now young boys are looking more at her for her body and not much focused on that she fights crime and is trying to protect this country. Personally I think women as icons are always portrayed as sex symbols and nothing more, they hardly ever show woman as powerful and respected in this country with clothes on. Its usually women wearing formfitting clothes and they are usually not that powerful in what they do. So wonder women did help change some of the stereotypes and they showed a women protecting the country.

Between Woodward's opinion on wonder woman and Chip Kidds's thought on superman, they are completely different. In the wonder woman article Woodward states "Clothes hug the curves of the body fantastic, both as a way to ignite sexual fires in adolescent readers and to signify a branding of the flesh." This means men will only look at Wonder Woman in a sexual way, and not really as an equal crime fighter. Its kind of like they have less respect and trust in her just because she is a woman and has sex appeal. And as for Kidd he explains that Superman is looked as a person in uniform and not wearing a costume, he was born a superhero, and not just someone who puts on a costume and fights.

In the pictures above i showed the difference between how Wonder Woman and Superman are portrayed in the media.
These are the links to both photos:
http://www.watchingamerica.com/thenationpk000025.shtml
http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html