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Wonder Woman dropped as UN equality champion
BBC ^ | 12 dec 2016 | Bbc

Posted on 12/13/2016 5:30:39 AM PST by csvset

The UN has ended its campaign with comic book heroine Wonder Woman, a spokesman says, less than two months after her appointment sparked outrage.

The superhero had been declared an honorary ambassador to promote messages about women's empowerment and gender-based violence.

The character's "sexualised" appearance was one element critics seized on to deem the choice inappropriate.

A petition against the selection gathered nearly 45,000 signatures.

The UN did not explain why the project with Wonder Woman, announced in October, would end on Friday.

But spokesman Jeffrey Brez said campaigns using fictional characters often lasted no longer than a few months, Reuters news agency reported.

DC Entertainment, which publishes DC Comics, said it was pleased with the exposure Wonder Woman had brought to the cause.

Warner Bros and DC Entertainment are supporting a year-long campaign by the UN and its children's agency, Unicef, for gender equality and women's empowerment.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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UN employees turn their backs during the announcement of Wonder Woman's role

1 posted on 12/13/2016 5:30:39 AM PST by csvset
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To: csvset
By the looks of most of the women in that photo, I can see why they would not want WW...


2 posted on 12/13/2016 5:33:21 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: csvset

How much money does the US waste on this nonsense?


3 posted on 12/13/2016 5:36:32 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: csvset
The character's "sexualised" appearance was one element critics seized on to deem the choice inappropriate.

Here is the Wonder Woman desired by the UN:


4 posted on 12/13/2016 5:39:06 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

I think we pump at least 10 billion into that rathole each year...


5 posted on 12/13/2016 5:43:43 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: pinkandgreenmom
You're quite right. And these are supposed to be the great people from every country??

Waste...waste...waste

Wonder who made the big bucks on this.

6 posted on 12/13/2016 5:45:06 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Axenolith

About one quarter of the UN budget.
Take it from there...


7 posted on 12/13/2016 5:45:29 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: csvset
I dont see the problem with either version



8 posted on 12/13/2016 5:46:54 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: csvset

That photograph says everything that can be said about the judgement of these libtards. To consciously present such an unflattering portion of their anatomy to a camera for posterity clearly questions their ability to handle responsibility. Even teenage boys who hang this part out of a moving car on Friday evening can grow up to be sensible men some day. These cows are past the point of improving upon their potential.


9 posted on 12/13/2016 5:46:55 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: csvset

She offended the muslims, the SJW’s and the rabid feminists.

Makes me wonder, why do the SJW’s and feminists scream bloody murder about the stifling patriarchy in the US but never raise a murmur about the very real and brutal patriarchal system in the muslim world?

Guess they’re scared of losing their heads over the issue.


10 posted on 12/13/2016 5:49:26 AM PST by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: wastoute

Perhaps it was less unflattering than a full frontal view?


11 posted on 12/13/2016 5:49:42 AM PST by null and void ( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
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To: wastoute

If the UN wanted a woman to represent empowerment, I could think of no other woman than Sarah Palin. She is the embodiment of what an empowered woman is. Business woman, governor, mother, wife, outdoorsmen.


12 posted on 12/13/2016 5:50:38 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: csvset

It would seem that, at the UN, anyway, a pleasant face and great t*ts are verboten.


13 posted on 12/13/2016 5:57:24 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: csvset
Threads about Wonder Woman are USELESS without shots of Lynda Carter in her form-fitting costume.


14 posted on 12/13/2016 5:58:14 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jack Hammer
..and great t*ts are verboten."

Great tots are never verboten!

15 posted on 12/13/2016 6:02:44 AM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: BlueLancer

Only at the UN. Personally, I LOVE to munch on them t*ts.

Crispy potato puffs with a golden, fried outer crispiness.

A little salt... a little ketchup...

They can’t be beat!


16 posted on 12/13/2016 6:05:46 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: csvset

What will they choose? a “woman” who’s really a man, but calls itself “transgendered”?


17 posted on 12/13/2016 6:10:08 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: csvset

What? Our Muslim Overlords objected to a half-naked woman dressed in red, white, and blue? Imagine!!


18 posted on 12/13/2016 6:11:15 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: Delta 21
I am always curious - it is said that Bernoulli derived his famous equation for fluid dynamics by watching a swinging chain.

I wonder what famous equation could be derived by watching Wonder Woman running moving like that?

19 posted on 12/13/2016 6:13:38 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: rjsimmon

lol. Is the UN REAL? Or is it just the silliest prank EVER played on Americans? And the world.


20 posted on 12/13/2016 6:16:38 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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