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A Bad Girl's Book of Animals, afro, amazons, coward, sonnet, The Muses, Themyscira, wait, war, woman warrior, Wonder Woman, Wong Amy
waiting for themyscira
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“He says, it
cannot be done,
But it is given,
(and mostly as punishment).”
— Wong Amy, A Lesson
You might have left for the Himalayas
or the island of Themyscira, somewhere
I won’t go. But you didn’t. The Muses
know I will never find the rhyme to share
your fate with the world. You were a creature
of war. I valued peace, provided I
didn’t have to give up any leisure
comforts. I know why you left. I know why
I stayed, too. The flip side. I use to brag
that long ago I’d be burned as a witch.
How posh. What airs. But that ignores our fate.
You will always know blood lust, while I’ll drag
my feet in this world and the next. I’ll bitch
but you’ll hear the call. You’ll go and I’ll wait.
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Note:
Themyscira is the fictional island where, according to DC Comics, Wonder Woman and her sister Amazons came from.
A Long history of men musing on lands, or singular examples, of strong women. Thoughts of masochistic men, or an abrogation of the fight/flight responsibility inherent in being male? You’ve presented so many examples of this thought, this isn’t something that came about recently, or ever ceased to be attractive. In a movie, the title I don’t remember, character says to female cop, “…nothing sexier than a woman with handcuffs, especially one who knows how to use them.”
Later…
On a smaller scale concerning this issue, the problem I have with 99% of comic book super heroines is that they are suppose to represent female empowerment, but they are portrayed as sex objects, being put into costumes that violate most of NYC’s public obscenity laws. There is nothing wrong in making art that turns powerful women into a fetish’s wet dream, it’s just not what I am interested in, personally (though one can argue all art objectifies, which is also true). In a larger sense what makes erotica erotica and not pornography is the spiritual aspect of it. Porn is about fucking, plain and simple. But when we address the life forces that drive us, when we talk of Eros, the House of Venus, the passions of the soul, then we’re using the same terms all religious art employs. We can get close to the Mysteries, we can talk about them, but we can’t objectify them, we can’t own the gods. Like the orgasm, the divine is bigger than us. It connects us to worlds we only barely understand. The riot grrl plays the same role, a glimpse into a world I will never experience personally but can respect.
I don’t know if that answers your question, but it is a good question and got me thinking and that is always good.
Wonder Woman sure titillated my young mind. And, growing up around horses and horse breeders, that golden lasso always had personally interpreted meaning.
Later…
Yes, I was always amazed that Lynda Carter was able to stay in her costume, even when hanging upside down. I suppose velcro and super-glue have more uses than I ever dreamed up.
She must have drove the costume people batty. There has to be stocks of blooper shots with her falling out of what little she wore. Never thought that much on how Superman and Captain America, etc. turned into superheroes with more nature and elemental natures…Aquaman, SpiderMan, SandMan, GreenHornet, etc. Hmmm. Something to consider since I don’t know the timeline of their evolution.
later…
The Wonder Bra for Wonder Woman. Yes, the thinking that went into superhero names seems to rest almost completely on whatever costume they were able to find on the blue-light special rack at K-Mart. Except when they got to Wonder Woman they didn’t call her Red, White and Blue Granny Panties Woman, which is probably a mouthful, especially when arriving in a dramatic manner at a scene of a crime. Also, since there is no hyphen in her name, is her last name simply “Woman”?
Probably a distant relative of Kermit Pickle trhying to come up with something a bit more tantalizing…Ms. Woman, indeed.
Yay, Kermit Pickle! Speaking of Ms. Woman I just posted an homage to Lynda Carter (I didn’t spend any time coloring her in, I’ll try working on it some more later tonight)
Gog go read now…Woman…where club? Pickle Power will prevail.
Later…
read well, gog! read well!