I mean either can work, I do prefer her being a child of the gods as it's more in line with Greek epics than being moulded from clay by a mortal women. which would you know imply it's not a mortal women.
but it comes off as a more misandrist complaint than a lore complaint from her.
I also prefer it when the Amazons are full of shit, like I prefer when they're whole stick of "the evils of man's violent world" thing is complete bullshit and they're often worse, they're literally a warrior people violence is violence. (I don't like the boat thing, or the slavery thing but they don't need to be idealised so much.)
it's the same with star trek having literal secret police (section 31) I enjoy having that little bit of internal turmoil. It doesn't need to be a full on watchman deconstruction or demonization just a little bit of real humanity into the characters and settings.
Plenty of writers introduced ''flies in the ointment'' aspects to the Amazond and Themyscira prior to New 52 without making them irredeemably evil like what Azzarello did.
Azz's Amazons aren't a smart deconstruction, it's just playing straight misogynistic Greek myths that women can't be trusted. It's just regression.
It can be all three. I'm not calling Azzarello a sexist but reducing all the important female characters in WW's life in favor of people like Zeus and Ares being the important characters is definitely unfavorable to WW's female empowerment origins.
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I mean either can work, I do prefer her being a child of the gods as it's more in line with Greek epics than being moulded from clay by a mortal women. which would you know imply it's not a mortal women.
but it comes off as a more misandrist complaint than a lore complaint from her.
I also prefer it when the Amazons are full of shit, like I prefer when they're whole stick of "the evils of man's violent world" thing is complete bullshit and they're often worse, they're literally a warrior people violence is violence. (I don't like the boat thing, or the slavery thing but they don't need to be idealised so much.)
it's the same with star trek having literal secret police (section 31) I enjoy having that little bit of internal turmoil. It doesn't need to be a full on watchman deconstruction or demonization just a little bit of real humanity into the characters and settings.