RosieRad, Ah! Lovely, the discussion is back on! No, honestly, you're quite right, nothing escapes your sharp eye it seems. That impression is indeed given by the first paragraph that I wrote, which might not have been entirely measured before posting. I see several different aspects of my post that are in a not completely satisfactorily way bundled together. Partly that can be blamed on the massive length that it would have come down to otherwise, since I have a hard time to be precise and tend to beat around the push without realizing the point that I'm trying to make.
Wonder Woman's uniform in the movie. Major disappointment to a life long spanko reader. I'm a traditionalist and hated that she wasn't wearing anything that was even remotely like the tight hugging version that has dominated the comic for 50 years. That actually goes for all superhero uniforms, they usually just disappear in the movie adaptation. In some cases, as with Vampirella, it can be understood, because the only way that suit would stick to a human body would be with plenty of glue. That movie sucked btw, it was so below standards that it actually redefined the word bad (Rotten tomatoes rating 17%). That saddened me, as I always liked the comic book as well as Talisa Soto and think she looked stunning. Well, even the best can end up in a crap movie, just look at Halle Berry in Catwoman.
But, to get back on the subject, the uniform that WW had in the comic would actually work reasonably well on most women. So, when whining about her uniform changes, it was partly because I so dearly wanted to see at least one of my childhood favorites look at least remotely like the original. And besides I always liked her arse when reading the comic, so it ticked me off too. This train of thoughts should of course have been split in at least two divisions, how and why I'd preferred her with an alternative uniform in the main screen release and how I'd wished her in a spanko fantasy movie unfortunately never to be made (sob).
Objectification in real life. That's a different thing and I think I'm using the wrong term from time to time. What I actually wanted to say was that I'd like a more sensual society in which we can enjoy looking at the beauty of each other and women don't have to be called sluts because they enjoy dressing in what some feel is provocatively. I know that it is way different from country to country. In the US I at least think there is much more what could be called negative objectification than what is going on here. While in the US a woman in a minimal bikini can put her rack on a pile of wheels to sell cars, that would shame the company as well as the advertising firm here. That is negative objectification. I don't really know how to put this. A bit it is a fear that we're heading back into some gray Victorian age in which showing flesh or even a hint of figure is frowned upon. I feel that we're having that tendency over here recently. The human body is the most beautiful thing, it just is that way, it's biological and so intended by nature so we'll multiply. I wish there was more "normal" and relaxed sensuality in society. Life is too short to suffer through it having people round you hiding their bodies in burkas. So, in real life, maybe not more objectification, but more sensuality. The yoga pants is by the way a good step on that way if you ask me.
Okay, I'd better hold my horses her for a while. There is more and I realize that I could be more precise, but this is already longer than it should be and I'm rambling, straying from the topic again and again.
As a total surprise, in the light of American movies usually involving a mass of destruction, there is a quiet movie out about a month ago on the creator of Wonder Woman. It seems as if the background story to this comic character is a much bigger thing than I had realized. The movie got bad reviews here in Sweden though, stating that it's much too prude and that the very driving components, the love triangle that the creator was involved in, was completely erased to make the movie 'decent'. 'Professor Marten and the Wonder Women', it did score fairly good at IMDB though. Even greater was my surprise when I read that this is actually the second major adaptation of Marston's life, the other being the 2014 play "The lasso of truth' on stage in San Francisco. | 
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