More pertinent to the discussion at hand: are any of your supervisors *Amazons* in disguise?

I know this is just a comic book but just to make a point, for as long as I’ve been working I’ve always had a female boss … and that female also reported to a female. Also in my office there are more then a lot of females in power rolls. Just saying, that’s all.

“NRAMA: So take us from the ground up – why are they attacking?

WP: Because they’re an ancient race of warrior women, of course! What else would you expect them to do? And let’s face it, Amazons Attack is an amazingly alliterative title, isn’t it? Joking aside, they’ve got both good and bad reasons to attack. The good reason is that it’s to avenge what they consider a horrible crime committed by the world of men. The bad reason is that, to a certain extent, they’re being manipulated into it. Someone saw the potential of all those incredible warriors living a peaceful existence for centuries, and decided they were the sort of weapon that could have a tremendous impact. My goal in this miniseries is, like most wars, to have the motivations be murky at best – something that will come back to haunt all sides in the eventual conflict.”

Emphasis mine – those parts indicate to me that the writer doesn’t want us to believe that the Amazons have a clear-cut reason to attack. The word “consider” illegitimizes the truth of their experience. And they’re being manipulated? Great, the old “women have weak minds and can’t be trusted to know what’s best for them” cliche. I don’t think their motivations are murky at all: I can’t believe they would need an outside force to “incite” them into rebelling against the patriarchy Man’s World. They have a legitimate reason (many, many reasons) to invade, and it bugs me that they’re going to be portrayed as misguided. I’m dreading the point where Wonder Woman and/or other superhero women teach them “the lesson…that feminists should be careful about going too far, that the world is pretty good, and yes there are problems but it’ll be fixed and everything is fine and dandy” as you put it so well. (And do you notice how the feminist way of fixing things is never, ever the right way? Hmmm.)

I expect to drop out when things turn sour (read: anti-feminist); I’m just interested in the part where the Amazons show their military might. I really, really hope we get a lot of that. If it goes south, I’ll just download it and refuse to support it =P

I’m just worried that the lesson at the end will be that feminists should be careful about going too far, that the world is pretty good, and yes there are problems but it’ll be fixed and everything is fine and dandy :\

And they’ll cement the point by having Wonder Girl and Supergirl and Powergirl, etc fight against the Amazons proving that “see even the female heroes disagree with you”. :\

That’s just what I’m scared of cuz it seems like that’s the way these plots go :(