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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5524432" data-attributes="member: 15538">Marston, speaking to Olive Byrne, the co-inspiration, in an <a href="http://www.wonderwoman-online.com/articles/fc-marston.html" target="_blank">interview</a>:""Women now fly heavy planes successfully, they help build planes, do mechanics' work. In England they've taken over a large share of all manual labor in fields and factories; they've taken over police and home defense duties. In China a corps of 200,000 women under the supreme command of Madame Chiang Kai-shek perform the dangerous function of saving lives and repairing damage after Japanese air raids. This huge female strong- arm squad is officered efficiently by 3,000 women. Here in this country we've started a Women's Auxiliary Army and Navy Corps that will do everything men soldiers and sailors do except the actual fighting. Prior to the first World War nobody believed that women could perform these feats of physical strength. But they're performing them now and thinking nothing of it. In this far worse: war, women will develop still greater female power; by the end of the war that traditional description 'the weaker sex' will be a joke-it will cease to have any meaning." If, as may be the case, Marston used psychological projection to deal with his suppressed desire to subjugate women, that says more about his personality and his kinks than it does about his politics. Whatever virtues we have as human beings that are great and powerful, it is likely that they grow large in order to thwart kernels of unwanted id in our minds.Daisy appears mainly as an amalgam of traditional, stereotypical images of women, sexy and cunning, played as a country tomboy for laughs. She relied on vamping and deceit, making her little more than a modern-day Eve or Delilah in jean shorts. I wouldn't put her in the same category as Olive Oil, but in my mind she's a lot closer to the pink T-shirt version of "girl power" that is popular nowadays than liberated womanhood.</blockquote>

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