The Female Future

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I know a lot of people like to snicker and snark about all the weird bondage in the early Wonder Woman comics by her eccentric co-creator, William Moulton Marston. And sure, it gets really weird sometimes.

But if you just dismiss all the bondage as Marston’s personal kinky fetish or whatever, you are kind of missing the bigger picture: As often as Wonder Woman is bound, the point is just as much to show her powerfully breaking free of her bonds — which is a clear metaphor for defying societal limitations on women. This is also why Wonder Woman is frequently shown trying to teach other women how to break free.

Meanwhile, Wonder Woman’s own method of binding people, the Golden Lasso — literally, binding people with the truth — is unbreakable.

These are really powerful allegories that make the character who she is.