Wonder Woman Is ‘Queer’ Confirmed DC Comics
The idea of gender identification is an illogical concept in Themyscira since it's a fictional planet inhabited only by women.
Cover image via SAYS PHThere is an underlying trend in the comics world that everyone is not talking about: the lack of gender diversity of superheroes
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Diana is one of the "Holy Trinity" of DC Comics alongside Batman and Superman.
Since the release of DC Rebirth this year for its 75th year on print, DC Comics has explicitly shown the character and history of Princess Diana "Wonder Woman" of [Themyscira] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themyscira_(DC_Comics))
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Wonder Woman is not just the resolute heroine that everyone loves. She is a woman who is a princess of an ancient all-female society living in secret on a hidden island.
In fact, the archaic origin of Diana was as clear as day all-women themed since its release in 1941 which most of the readers might have missed…
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Diana was a clay form built by her mother, Hippolyta, before praying that the gods would bring it to life and grant her a daughter – keeps the all-women theme alive. Without a father (or a mortal one, at least) the daughter of the Amazons is truly that. Of women, for women, as a woman shared Screen Rant's Andrew Dyce.
Good thing Matt Santori-Griffith of Comicosity confirmed from Wonder Woman's DC Rebirth writer Greg Rucka about Diana's world absent of heteronormativity
Griffith directly asked Rucka if Diana is queer and his answer was:
"**How are we defining queer?** You're applying a term specifically and talking to an ostensibly cis male (and white to boot), so 'queer' to me may not be the same as it is to an out gay man. So, tell me what queer is."
When Griffith defined queer as "involving, although not necessarily exclusively, romantic and/or sexual interest toward persons of the same gender"
… Rucka answered, "Then, yes."
"I think it's more complicated though. This is inherently the problem with Diana: we've had a long history of people — for a variety of reasons, including sometimes pure titillation, which I think is the worst reason — say, 'Ooo. Look. It's the Amazons. They're gay!'"
"And when you start to think about giving the concept of Themyscira its due, the answer is, 'How can they not all be in same sex relationships?' Right? It makes no logical sense otherwise."
For Rucka, the idea of gender identification is an illogical concept in Themyscira since it's supposed to be a paradise and a fictional planet inhabited only by women
"You're supposed to be able to live happily. You're supposed to be able — in a context where one can live happily, and part of what an individual needs for that happiness is to have a partner — to have a fulfilling, romantic and sexual relationship. And the only options are women."
"But an Amazon doesn't look at another Amazon and say, 'You're gay.' They don't. The concept doesn't exist. This is how the Amazons live… But I know this: their society has to be the best possible paradise," added Rucka.
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