Power Dressing

Bec Says

Can you believe that such controversy surrounds some chick’s wardrobe update? I’m a lifelong fan of comics and thought Wonder Woman was the bee’s knees when I was a kiddie. I can’t say I paid too much attention to what she was wearing, though I doubt her fetish/hooker get up was aimed at 8 year old me. I read a snippet in The Courier-Mail and thought it was an interesting bit of pop culture info. Little did I realise that this news is *all* over the WWW. I mean, it’s probably been more widely discussed than Julia Gillard’s new job.

Isn’t it funny what catches the public’s imagination and has the capacity to generate such heated debate? We’ve got ongoing violence raging in Thailand, an oil spill crisis off the Gulf of Mexic Big Bang, and new rumblings on the asylum seeker front; yet, when I looked her up today, Wonder Woman and her new gear are sparking debates of equally epic proportions on news sites, forums, and blogs left, right, and centre. And I’m talking about publications such as The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and our own ABC News site.

Isn’t pop culture a fascinating beastie? Here I am, marvelling over this strange phenomenon and what have I spent the past 2 hours researching, myself? For shame! I can’t say I’ve made up my mind about the new design, personally. What do YOU think? It’s nice to see her less sexualised (and probably more comfortable, poor love)… And I will say this: her hair looks fabulous.

Clip: (Stronger than she looks)