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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5524363" data-attributes="member: 177">As you say, context matters.&nbsp; Whether early WW was &quot;truly empowered&quot; in the modern sense does not directly speak to whether she was seen as an icon of empowerment at the time.&nbsp; I'm not sure it is constructive to look at her empowerment with a modern sensibility to judge the effect of the character several decades ago.There's a difference between asking if we, today, would look back at that character and say she's empowered, and if someone at the time would have called her empowered (though, I expect &quot;liberated&quot; would probably have been the lingo of the day).&nbsp; Should we have expected them to come up with what the 21st century would now call an empowered woman all in one step?&nbsp; Probably not.&nbsp; Today, those first steps don't look like much, but that doesn't mean they weren't groundbreaking at the time they were made.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5524363, member: 177"] As you say, context matters. Whether early WW was "truly empowered" in the modern sense does not directly speak to whether she was seen as an icon of empowerment [i]at the time[/i]. I'm not sure it is constructive to look at her empowerment with a modern sensibility to judge the effect of the character several decades ago. There's a difference between asking if we, today, would look back at that character and say she's empowered, and if someone at the time would have called her empowered (though, I expect "liberated" would probably have been the lingo of the day). Should we have expected them to come up with what the 21st century would now call an empowered woman all in one step? Probably not. Today, those first steps don't look like much, but that doesn't mean they weren't groundbreaking at the time they were made. [/QUOTE]

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