Moonhead
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ORIGINAL: Baroana I have known many, many guys who had a thing for Wonder Woman. They would say that they had fantasies about her when they were kids. If they were submissive, they would fantasize about being her slave. If they were dominant, they would fantasize about dominating her. One thing that's worth bearing in mind about fantasies involving Wonder Woman is that the psychologist who created her (William Moulton Marston, who also has the invention of the polygraph on his CV) appears to have had a taste for femdom himself. There's a lot in the early (and many feel best) strips when he was still writing them about the inherently corrupt nature of "man's world" and female empowerment. The fact that Marston deliberately designed his character as a positive role model for young girls is well documented, but the fact that he'd also published on the innate superiority of women and how a matriachy would be a lot less of a mess than the society we live in (surprisingly, a very popular idea in the '4os: it was one of Gerald Gardner's fixations as well) is less publicised for some reason.
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I like to think he was eaten by rats, in the dark, during a fog. It's what he would have wanted... (Simon R Green on the late James Herbert)
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