Ant Man: more deserving of a superhero movie than Thor, ridiculed because he's getting one before Wonder Woman.
Maybe instead of teaching our young women that punching people and brandishing magical jewelry is a good way to become a hero, it's okay to show a scientist who has used his brilliance to turn the mundane into the deadly/superpowered. Creativity and thinking: maybe better than strength and beauty? Wonder Woman is playing the game by Super Man's rules, Hank Pym is recreating the game.
Maybe the real victory would not be making an Ant Man movie, it would be making an Ant Man and Wasp movie: The Pyms, a story of a great man who is nothing without his superpowered wife. A wife proven to be more battle-ready than her science-minded husband, more decisive and headstrong, capable of taking an immense beating despite her smaller size? You know, an actual functioning pair of opposite-sexed individuals, with powers that augment and complement each other?
Maybe we concede that Wonder Woman was conceived as a male answer to a male question offered in female form?
Magic Tiara? Not sexist. Golden ropes that are designed to bind men and illicit the reluctant truth from them? Not sexist at all! Is it surprising that one of her "superpowers" is to go all berserk-mode when her bracelets come off? Being cast as "hysterical woman" is painted as a superpower here, where she becomes unable to control herself with rage. She's totally the icon I want pushed on my non-existant daughter. Before we worry about whether or not there is a Wonder Woman movie, I think we need to consider if there should be one.
EDIT UPDATE: In the time since I've been reading Ant Man, evidently he's become a wife beater? If so, terrible on him. Kick that writer in the junk. He deserves it. Thanks to this guy: http://dadnerdrants.tumblr.com/
for giving a heads up, no thanks for your annoying assumption. Also no thanks to the writer who ruined Hank Pym, whomever you are.
Also: Evidently by positing that Wonder Woman is Ridiculous someone assumes I think there shouldn't be a female-centered super hero movie? There should. That it shouldn't be Wonder Woman is a different argument.
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