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Hippolyta & Nubia in Wonder Woman: Earth 1 vol 1 (2016)
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Amazons of Themyscira
You: Diana is a virgin who Has Never Been With A Woman Ever, since she was the Only Child in the entire island so no one could date her.
Me, an intellectual: Diana have had relationships with women before, since the island isn't a small town where everyone know each other. It is ridiculous to assume that every single person there had known Diana as a baby. It's a big island. There's a lot of women. She could have easily been with someone who didn't see her as a child. Stop desexualizing and erasing the sexual and romantic experiences of a bisexual woman with other women.
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Okay but what if Amelia Earhart disappeared because her plane crashed on Themyscira just like Steve Trevor’s and she decided to stay there to live a happy lesbian life
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Sometimes a family is 1500 moms living on an island with their daughter made of clay
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I’d like to believe that the reason that the Amazons have the most EXTRA fighting style in existence is because they’re a warrior people with no war to fight so instead of just doing basic training like normal people, Antiope is like, “And now I’m going to teach you how to BACKFLIP off of a MOVING HORSE,” because they have to fill their time somehow.
From a similar-minded comments thread on io9:
Spaceman_99 gets it.
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Themyscira, sex and love
Let’s talk about Themyscira and just how different their society would be when it comes to sex and love
First of all as we saw there is no taboo on nudity. The naked body is not considered a big thing. Things like scars and skills in battle are quite considered a far sexier thing then nudity could ever be
Second it’s very likely that due to their immortality and isolation from the rest of the world long term romantic relationships live side with with polyamourous ones as well as casual sex Which brings me to Diana….the only child on the entire island. Literally every single Amazon on the island would have known her since she was a tiny baby,.
Her fighting skills would be decades if not centuries behind the other Amazons, her skin would be flawless and barely have any scars on it and her muscles while adequate were nothing to really write home about. By the standards of Amazonian society she would probably be the least sexually attractive Amazon on the island. So imagine teenage Diana with her hormones raging, reading all night about the pleasure of the flesh and trying cringe worthy attempts to flirt with the other Amazonian warriors. And nothing works so frustrated she puts all her energy into her training until one day years later…she beats Antiope in a training match. The very same night she gets asked out by three Amazonians and suddenly Diana is finally the new hot thing in town and she is loving it TL;DR: To the outside world Diana is the most attractive woman in the universe in Themyscira she was an awkward skinny nerd who couldn’t get laid for decades
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wonderswoman
“The warrior women - the Amazons - had finally found a sanctuary, free from the jealousy and oppression of the ignorant.“
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CBR: As a black man with, I must add, an incredibly powerful voice both literally and figuratively, does it give you any additional pleasure – or pressure – that Hessia is a powerful black woman?
Not necessarily. I think that there are going to be black characters in the book, but there are also Samoan Amazons. We see Aztec Amazons. We see Amazons from Persia and Germania. There are Slavic Amazons, and Asian Amazons. East Indian Amazons. Punjabi Amazons. African Amazons. So my thing was to show that my Themyscira is populated by so many women from different races. They had to come from somewhere. And if you look at the mythological origins of the Amazons, some of them have them coming from the Middle East, places like Turkey, so when you start looking at things like that the fact that there is a black Amazon leader, sure, I guess because I am a black man, there is some cultural connective tissue there but that’s not the story that I’m telling. It’s not about her blackness. It’s about her Amazon-ness. That is the feature that is most important.
What led me to that question was the fact that I am an 80s kid and I grew up on the George Pérez version of Wonder Woman and there were not too many – if any – Amazons of color in that version so the idea of the Amazons, at least the ones living in the DC Universe, has changed quite drastically over the past 30 years.
You’re right and that’s exactly what I wanted to build into this story. We’ve always lived in a culturally diverse world but it hasn’t always been reflected in our media. Now, they are allowing it and good that DC saw the potential in that and commissioned this miniseries.
The Odyssey of the Amazons debuts January 25. [Comixology link]