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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5528271" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, see, that depends.  In the Silver Age forward, Yes, her enemies would be bound by her lasso as often as she was.  But in the Golden Age...well, while she did tie folks up, as often as not it was other women:[sblock] <img src="http://www.asitecalledfred.com/comics101/images/2004/apr28/magiclasso.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/mosellegreen/pic/0012ytca" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]And stuff like this happened a LOT:[sblock]<img src="http://www.asitecalledfred.com/comics101/images/2004/apr28/aphroditeslaw.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.asitecalledfred.com/comics101/images/2004/apr28/bindme.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.asitecalledfred.com/comics101/images/2004/apr28/chainedbymen.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Of course, to be fair, we also have to note that our token male hero Steve Trevor, the Ned to Wonder Woman's Nancy Drew, is pretty dang useless, getting tied up himself a lot.And finally, it's worth noting that, kink or not, WMM was clearly shooting for female empowerment tales, with resolutions like this:[sblock]<img src="http://www.asitecalledfred.com/comics101/images/2004/apr28/wecanfight.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/mosellegreen/pic/0013943t" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.asitecalledfred.com/comics101/images/2004/apr28/neverloveadominantman.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]As often as not, it seems like Wonder Woman's stories hinged on two things:  writing a story that wouldn't alienate the core young boy readership and advancing his (admittedly sometimes odd) theories on gender politics.  Marston clearly entertained some ideas that were a little on the wacky side and the Golden Age being what it was, some really out-there stories were to appear (case in point: Dr. Psycho up there?  His origin is basically that the pretty girl he has WW tie up was his fiancée who met someone handsomer and arranged to have him falsely imprisoned as a traitor instead of just breaking off the engagement?).  Oddly enough, nobody seems to hold that against her or consider her culpable for Psycho's behavior later.  Go figure.Frankly, when you hold up these Golden Age adventures against stuff like Flash Gordon serials...they don't look all that different.</blockquote>

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