thinkbolt:zacharyzataras:let’s get something straight here,...

thinkbolt:

zacharyzataras:

let’s get something straight here, captain. i am not a doll nor a puppet, nor a totem. i have a soul. 

wonder woman vol. 3 #17

Send that girl back to school with THESE pictures on her lunch box.

I was trying to remember what I was thinking of when I wrote these words and this sequence, and it hit me suddenly.

A recent Wonder Woman writer (NOT Greg Rucka) had connected Diana metaphorically to the Jewish concept of a GOLEM, and was saying that that’s what she was, I think ostensibly because she was made of clay.

I thought that was a very odd thing to say, and the more you know about what the Golem is, the less it seemed to apply to Wonder Woman. Then the discussion was going around that she was a doll or a totem, and that just seemed to be an attempt to dehumanize the character and Batman-her-up a bit, as many people seem obsessed with doing.

I don’t buy it. I consider Wonder Woman’s origin to be quite beautiful, and a metaphor for adoption and acceptance and creating your own family. She can be a badass and not be an emotionless vengeance machine. 

I would love to see the Golem idea explored in comics, I often put little nods to Isaac Bashevis Singer in my comics, but I felt that idea was very misapplied in this case, and I wanted to say for the record that an unusual birth doesn’t preclude being human.