Posted on 10/22/2016 4:52:04 AM PDT by DFG
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Friday promoted a petition by “concerned” United Nations staffers against the honoring of Wonder Woman, a “large-breasted, white woman” who wears an “American flag motif.” The fictional DC comics character is being hailed as an “Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.”
Talking to Lynda Carter, the ‘70s era Wonder Woman, guest co-host Margaret Brennan insisted the character was “drawing some scrutiny because of the way you’re dressed.” Gayle King catalogued the list of complaints from outraged, dissident UN staffers: “Listen on to what they are saying though, Lynda. ‘A large breasted, white woman of impossible proportioned, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee-high boots is not an appropriate spokeswoman for the gender equality at the United Nations.'”
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lol.
Who gives a flying #### what the Un says or thinks.
I hope Trump kicks them out of NYC.
That building sickens me.
lol. WTF is gender equality anyway?
It can never happen because man doesn’t equal woman, and vice versa.
Can never have equality in strength. In nurturing. In childbirth. In testosterone levels. and on and on and on
They are different. Someone forgot to tell libs.
Large breasted, white woman in an American flag motif sounds pretty darn good to me of course.
Purge the United States of the UN. The time is past due for that. I’d be thrilled to see them gone. A bunch of diplomatic pukes.
Since it's the 75th anniversary year of Wonder Woman's debut, I'm reasonably sure Warner Bros. slipped an "inducement" to the selection committee to assure the outcome. In return, they get free publicity for one of their properties. All the SJW hysteria is just silly.
In fact, they should be grateful. There's another character that could have been chosen that would have made their heads explode.
As opposed to what, the "reality" of some Hollywood film or TV series?
Since when does “white” only mean northern European? Any Caucasian is white, as are many Hispanics, IMHO.
Haha. They’re close.
Film/videos usually operate through sequels and prequels. Comics are so episodic that the time line doesn’t need consistency, so things can be added anywhere along the time line. In fact, there usually isn’t a time line.
In other words, I think it would be more difficult to take a primarily video character and revise his character than to do the same for a cartoon/comic book character. But then again, many of the famous video characters are derived from comics, and it doesn’t take much imagination to read something into the Batman/Robin relationship.
New York Times
April 11, 1997
"Mayor Giuliani, who said the international body was on the verge of becoming a laughingstock, began talking half-seriously about the fancy hotels and apartment buildings that could be built on the site if United Nations members carried through on their threats to leave.
Speaking to a group of reporters in his office, he said: "They are making a little bit of a joke out of the U.N. by threatening to take a parking violations case to the World Court. It was not put together by treaty to argue out special-interest parking situations for diplomats."
Instead of settling wars and resolving human rights violations, he said, the institution was "defining diplomacy down" by arguing about parking tickets.
Mr. Giuliani was no kinder to the State Department, which just last month, in a public ceremony, signed an agreement with the city to force diplomats to pay their parking tickets on the threat of removing their plates. With State Department officials now seeking to remove the teeth from that agreement, the Mayor accused them of cowering to overblown United Nations threats to leave the United States over the parking rules, and said the diplomats’ bluff should be called.
"If they’d like to leave New York over parking tickets, then we can find another use for that area of town," he said. "It happens to be just about the most valuable real estate in the world, not just in the United States. That is enormously valuable real estate, and with the vacancy rates that exist in the city of New York, can you imagine what we could do with that?"
In case anyone thought he was bluffing, he had city lawyers check the United Nations lease to determine who gets the riverfront property if the institution leaves town.
(Answer: the Federal Government could use it; if it did not want it, the city would have next crack.)..."
The Mother of to a daughter, and a mother to a son. Bothy children are college Grads. She’s age 75 and still a gorgeous Woman.
The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman was better in the WWII era. That 70s era next season is almost too comical to watch.
Both still beat Cathy Lee Crosby’s earlier movie version.
Much like the white dolls spray painted brown to appease blacks back in the 1960s.
I probably will as well since it’s better than most of what’s on now.
I liked the version in those Justice League cartoons from a few years ago.
All of the characters in those were very good.
Large breasted? Cmon, that costume top was loose on her!
Indian, sort of (Asian).
BI-sexual...She wants it, she BUYS it?
Well, it appears that when the Manic Multiculturalist, Ambiguously-sexual, Marching Morons (MMAMM) want to ‘decry’ such things as Anglos eating Mexican (food) or Chinese (food) etc., they call it ‘Cultural Appropriation’ (CA). Well, to my mind, ALL of these comic-book characters from (and before) my youth are part of MY CULTURE, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Fantastic Four and Spiderman just to name a few! All of them were, from their first drawing, main-stream American in action and culture. Sure, Superman was a real alien [as developed by good Jews] but his (then) motto of “Truth, Justice and the American Way” was as good as “Mom and Apple Pie!”
So now, why cannot we, the DEPLORABLES, turn this ‘Cultural Appropriation’ back on THEM? It is CA to, willy-nilly, change these characters into the ad hoc cause just so that others can ‘feel the love!’ Stuff that into your hookah and smoke it!
Lynda Carter....Ohhhhhh MAN! Gorgeous! IIRC Mex-American.
Still gorgeous today.
Surprised they aren’t praising WW’s “brave” choice to come out as a lesbian.
But she is white, that’s bad.
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