Kamala's heroic performance as VP reminds the public of one particular superhero: Wonder Woman didn’t get to act on anger, neither does Kamala Harris!

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The images of Kamala Harris as Wonder Woman are great. But letâs be more realistic with our demands. | Elizabeth Wellington

Depicting Kamala Harris as Wonder Woman is tempting. But why do we need to make her superhuman? Here's why that could be more self-defeating than we intend.

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In one famous storyline, Sacrifice part IV, Wonder Woman was forced to kill a villain, Maxwell Lord, to save Superman’s and Batman’s lives. Lord had tricked the Justice League members into thinking he was an ally, when in fact he planned to destroy all superheroes, whom he viewed as a global threat. Lord convinced Superman that both Batman and Wonder Woman were his enemies and forced him to attack. After subduing Batman, Superman came after Wonder Woman.

Instead of fighting her friend, Wonder Woman captured Lord and used her Lasso of Truth. Lord told her the only way to stop him was to kill him. Which she did.

Unfortunately for Wonder Woman, that moment was broadcast publicly: the world saw Wonder Woman kill Lord without any context. The panel from that moment showed Wonder Woman from the perspective of those watching her, her face darkened and twisted into something ugly and murderous. The public turned on her. Even Superman and Batman, whose lives she had saved with her action, refused to hear her side and severed their friendship. This double standard infuriated me.

This was nowhere near the first time a hero had killed in the service of a greater good. It wasn’t her role as a hero that her actions betrayed, but her role as a woman. It was her loss of femininity, not the moral high ground that made this moment so shocking.

 

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when black women stop smiling, as it were, they’re easily reimagined as overly aggressive and mean. The Mammy archetype gives way to the Angry Black Woman trope, also known as Sapphire—named for the bullying black female character from the early American sitcom The Amos ’n’ Andy Show. Sapphire’s fury, and by extension the fury of black women, is assumed both to be an overreaction and inherently threatening. The result is that when a black woman shows anger, no matter how justified, she must immediately contend with the fear that her emotions will be seen, taken out of context, and result in everyone turning on her.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

Kamala has proven herself to be an inept idiot.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

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[basquebromance]

Political Satire

yea i know but i get more replies in the politics section

 

[theHawk]

Her Super Hero name would be.….Super Spreader.