October 15th, 2008
I hate to take issue with Lynda Carter, with whom I was somewhat obsessed around age 5, but here she is criticizing Sarah Palin for being the “anti-Wonder Woman.”
Here’s Carter’s description of how what Palin stands for is anathema to Wonder Woman:
She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness . . . that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about.
Let’s leave Palin out of the discussion. Does Carter really know what Wonder Woman is all about? Wonder Woman is an Amazon princess–an anti-democratic royal from a society which borders on a theocracy, so intertwined is it with religious tradition. Heck, as a member of the royal family she practically has a direct link to the gods. And talk about self-righteous: Princess Diana has no doubt as to which society is better, the all-woman, Amazon sisterhood or the corrupt, godless world of men.
Maybe the ’70s TV version of Wonder Woman was a more egalitarian take, but that’s not the classic view of the character.
All of that said, Lynda Carter is still getting it done at 57.
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