Wonder Woman dropped as UN equality champion

BBC ^ | 12 dec 2016 | Bbc

[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.

[bankwalker]

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

Simple Harmonic Motion.

[Delta 21]

Superheros lending themselves to science may help our race as a whole. Some research has already begun.

"Predictors of Three-Dimensional Breast Kinematics during Bare-Breasted Running" was just published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found, basically, that when you put a topless woman on a treadmill and have her run for awhile, the bigger her breasts, the more they'll jiggle around.

Ref; Linky

[kaktuskid]

Maybe because the newest WW is Israeli