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I was surfing through Mental_Floss when I came across this interesting little Wonder Woman tidbit here!

Here is said article:

Although she’s certainly earned her role as a feminist icon, the origins of Princess Diana the Amazon aren’t exactly as “feminist” as we might think today. Created in 1942 by psychologist William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman was indeed intended to be a role model for comics-reading little girls. But Marston’s intentions were a little different from what you might expect.

In a 1943 issue of The American Scholar magazine, he explained Wonder Woman as an attempt to show little girls that women could have fun adventures while still being “tender, submissive, and peace-loving.” The character was actually inspired by two real women: Marston’s wife, Elizabeth, and their polyamorous lover, Olive Byrne—which puts quite a twist on Wonder Woman’s original catch phrase, “Suffering Sappho!” Then there’s all the bondage. Early Wonder Woman books were chock-full of women tying up men, men tying up women, and lots of women tying up each other. Wonder Woman even told stories about how much the Amazons liked to play bondage games. Spanking, for the record, was also rather prevalent (the Amazons apparently had a whole penal system based around it) and Marston made it clear in interviews that this was intentional…a love of light S & M just being one more trait of his ideal woman.

Anyone else suddenly a little bit more interested in seeing a Wonder Woman movie?