WONDER WOMAN

Just four days ago, Wonder Woman hit theatres.  Just after its opening weekend, Wonder Woman broke box office records.  Cashing in at 86 million dollars, Wonder Woman broke the box office record for film with a female director.  Women comprised just 7 percent of all directors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2016, so for a female director to be so successful, it was groundbreaking.

When looking at all of the various superheroes, I noticed that most of them were male.  Wonder Woman is one of the first heroines that I can remember having a major film.  Most of the time if women are present in Marvel movies, they portray the damsel in distress.  They are only there to be saved since they apparently do not have the strength to do it themselves, and are highly sexualized as well.  These characters are often portrayed as naïve, helpless, and delicate.  What they lack in intellectuality and strength is made up for with appearance.  This gives young girls who look up to these "role models" the idea that how you look matters more than anything else.

Another thing I noticed about Wonder Woman is that her attire is extremely revealing.  Her boobs and butt basically hang out of the miniscule leotard which she is expected to save lives in... I believe that part of why she wears this is to attract a wider audience.  If Wonder Woman was overweight, ugly, and dressed in sweatpants, male viewers would be nowhere to be found.  However, you throw her in a revealing one-piece and give her an unrealistic hourglass figure and suddenly you've got every guy in America hooked.  This leads me to believe that a lot of people who watch these movies are there for the wrong reasons.