Once, quite some time ago; the madman alleged that Gail Simone was a big, fat, man-hating, femi-nazi, misandrist. As is par for the course when the madman exposes an unwelcome truth, I was roundly razzed, reviled, and ridiculed; but now, after six issues of Wonder Womyn, there can no longer be any doubt that Gail Simone's hatred of men is so burning, so powerful, that it defies scientific measurement in any rational system.
In order to ensure that any doubting thomas' who are readers of the madman's blog will have sufficient evidence to convict this testes-detesting gynoceri of Miasandry in the first degree, I submit the first six issues of Wonder Womyn as a testament to the deep-rooted hatred of the male sex embedded within her diseased psyche.
To begin with, in issue 14, Frau Simone introduces us to four amazons prisoners, watched over by a lonely Hippolyta. Though we are given only a foreshadowing of who or what these womyn are, it's safe to say they represent one of the most sinister and subtle of Poison Gaily's storytelling threads. But well get to that soon enough.
When Commandant Gail first introduces us to the Mighty Wonder Womyn she is battling a pack of hyper-evolved gorillas from (where else?) Gorilla City who were genetically engineered by Gorilla Grodd (who else?) to be even stronger. These obviously represent the elemental man, sans the civilising nature of modern society, while also incorporating an equally obvious nod to the idea of the noble savage in their manner and bearing. Though strong and fierce, these brute archetypes represent the base, physical, aspect of masculinity, untempered by the virtues of discipline and focus; and thus are easily conquered by the females "superior" morality and reason. The message is almost painfully heavy handed in its attempts to show the innate superiority of the "ideal womyn". Confronted wiht her glory, the "elemental man" has no choice but to kneel and submit A point that the artwork reinforces so graphically as to border on the pornographic.
Matriarch Gail then takes us to Wonder Woman's apartment, where her new conquests further show their animal (read masculine) inferiority, through allusions to a "flinging incident", while still reinforcing their submissiveness via their servile behavior and fawning near-worship of Diana. Once this has been sufficiently emphasised Gail introduces us to the her second male archetype, the "modern man" embodied by "nemesis".
While nowhere near as physically imposing (or physically capable) as the "elemental man", modern man is far preferable; due to his adoption of quasi-female traits such as a lack of facial hair, more socially conscious manners of dress, and an attention to social minutiae (such as birthdays) . However, while more desirable, "nemesis" still contains some of the essentially masculine "impurities" of his more bestial ancestors, such as his (comically unnecessary) desire to protect the female, masculine confidence (naturally lampooned as arrogance), and unsurprisingly, an almost total ineffectiveness. Also telling is that while "nemesis" comically attempts to shield Wonder Womyn from a harmless door-entry charge, he cowers uselessly in the face of the "modern misogynist", characterised in this scene by "a" Captain Nazi, and through the rest of the book by all other Nazis. (with the lone exception of the single Nazi female. )
Also of note is "Sargent steel" who makes his only appearance of the entire six issue run in this first issue. While first coming across as an archetypal "tough as nails commander" in the mold of a Sgt Rock, or a Nick Fury, he is quickly and efficiently unmasked as the weak-willed, substance-addicted, emasculated man-barely-holding-on-to-a-semblance-of-control, that he is by "Queen Bee Simone's" second Uber-Frau, Etta Candy.
But like all great propagandists, Simone is just getting started. And the progression of anti-testosterone hate speech continues unabated in issue 15. Nay, it accelerates!
Within the first 5 pages of issue 15, we find out the four prisoners were once Hippolyta's private guard, and the most loyal of her subjects. And again the sinister foreshadowing continues. In what will come to be a very important scene, the chief of Hippolyta's guard executes a woman. Her crime? Fraternisation with men via proxy. The fashioning of a baby doll. Apparently on "paradise island" even desiring the result of a mans touch is verbotten.
It is here where we return to Wonder Womyn, apparently at the mercy of Captain Nazi; while predictably, nemesis lies somnolent on the ground. I say apparently, because with a minimum of effort, Wonder Womyn by virtue of her aforementioned superior reason and morality, is able to turn the table on her attacker long enough to shed the Diana Prince identity ( yet not before proving that a mortal woman is superior even to a supermanof course) and reclaim the full matriarchal glory of her power. And if a superman stands no chance against a mortal womyn, then how could he even dream of challenging a Wonder Womyn?
To be blunt? He cant. And so after almost perfunctorily defeating him physically, she invades his soul; where upon she learns (surprise surprise) his evil is all the result of his wicked father pimping out his mom and beating he and his brother. Because men are the root of all evil dontchaknow?
The issue finishes out with rather stock scenes of Hippolyta as a rampaging Valkyrie cutting a swath through the assembled hordes of unfortunate and inferior male warriors who are invading the amazon paradise. Also spliced in are scenes of Diana's "heroic journey", which mainly consists of her begging various deities for help until desperation and love unlocks a hitherto untapped eloquence which in turn moves a Polynesian god to make Diana his champion. (thereby also subtly inserting the idea that even the most powerful of males require a woman to act for them)
In the final pages of issue 15 we see the harried, worried, and quite frankly soon to be buried Nazi's stumble upon the holding cells of Hippolytas once guards. The four procede to "make them an offer they can't refuse". Essentially, the deal is that if released, they will kill the Amazon queen for them. ( the nazi acceptance of which further enforces the female superiority paradigm)
And yet, the bobbitesque festival of misandy and emasculation is only a third of the way over, and has yet to truly unleash the depths of Gail's hatred for the stronger sex.
As issue 16 opens in flashback, Hippoltya's guards begin to contemplate treason as a result of their fear that even a doll brought to life, and therefore free of any taint of masculinity, will as a result of its very existence, destroy their female utopia. Even divorced from any reproductive, sexual, or social context, just the presence of what would normally take a mans input, is enough to trigger such fears in Hippolyta's guards. Yet, conversely, Hippolyta's success in creating the child free from the self same masculine taint seems to fill her other followers with a near religious rapture, as if the very act of creation without the need for the male impurity is reason enough to celebrate. And I guess to a mind as twisted as Reich's Mama Simone, it is.
Returning from Flashback, we are treated to a further testament to female superiority, even wihtin marginal populations. As the "squad leader" orders the destruction of "priceless scrolls, art, and plays going back centuries" only Tabitha (the only female, and incidentally, only named Nazi member) has the wisdom and courage to protest its immolation.
Then as if to ensure that even the most symbolically challenged of individuals has internalised the message, we are treated to both Alkyone's cool behavior under "squad leaders" interrogation, as well as the "squad leader" rather less dignified reation to the news that "her daughter is coming" and that he now has to face not one, but two, women. Deciding (of course) on a Brute force approach, he naturally walks his forces directly into Wonder Womyns trap. A trap which incidentally, is manned by her now servile gorilla-pets.
After cutting through the Nazi army like a hot knife through butter, we are finally treated to the only female causality of the whole run, Hippolyta. Naturally the fact that she wasn't killed by women is almost as demeaning as a goddess being killed by a rat, or perhaps a roach.
Issue 17 finishes the flashback story of Hippolyta's guards, the subtext of which seems to be that by opposing Hippolyta's great miracle (a child without a man) they have consigned themselves to the past.
The story of the "Amazon four" now told, Wonder Woman is free to finish repelling the invasion of her island, which is presented as an afterthought. The only moment of import is a brief conversation between Wonder Womyn and Tabitha as the Nazi forces leave.
From there Diana must begin the "real work", namely prying her mothers body back from the amazon four, before returning home to another birthday celebration, in which once again the only males given more than a cameo role are relegated to showing their deference and servility to the Wonder Womyn.
While this finishes the "gyniceroi island and the evil male invasion" storyline, it doesn't end the rushing river of poisoned estrogen which courses forth from this woman's diseased mind, and if anything, over the next two issues, the river becomes a flash flood of feminist hatred.
Issue 18 begins with what seems to be a near detente in the anti-masculine war Diktat Simone has been waging till now, but only until you realise that that creeping feeling of dread isn't unfounded. After beginning a "courtship ritual" without even telling "nemesis" whats going on, Wonder Womyn then threatens him with death should he refuse her "honor" (while naturally pretending it to be merely in jest) before belittling his history, culture, and heritage, while simultaneously implying that any attempts honor his own heritage and traditions might be fatal. But the coup de grace, is when Nemesis makes the stun gun obvious observation that as her island is female only, any courtship rituals must have been developed for women, to which Wonder Womyn graciously lets him know that though he falls far below the standards of her people, she will "make it work".
Not content with ensuring we all know that no earthly man is an equal for a womyn, Gynoceriae Gail then proceeds to have an alien race (the Khunds)declare war on Wonder Womyn (not the planet, just her mind you) as a form of tribute before asking for her help. Upon transport to their planet she is particularly disturbed by a statue raised in her honor, one which is conspicuously masculine in its lines. Given that the Khunds are one of the most masculine races of the DCU (or should I say one of the most steroetypically so), and that even their women conform to the masculine ideals at the expense of the feminine; this disgust of the masculine portrayal of herself while simultaneously being lionised by the self same race, once again reinforces the gyno-superiority agenda inherent in Simone's WW.
Agreeing to hep, Wonder Womyn and Mini-Womyn (candy) head off to find the terrible threat that has decimated the Khunds and find... A Green Lantern. ( male of course)
Issue 19 opens briefly with Wonder Womyn locked in battle with the Gl before switching to a scene mostly meant to impress upon us, (in his own words) how lucky, yet at the same time unworthy, Nemesis is to be courted by Wonder Womyn. In a machiavellian tactic Nemesis is frst shown to be admired by the men and women under his command so as to make the impact of his professed unworthiness even greater. A brilliant pice of propaganda that.
The rest of the story unfolds predictably and quickly. Wonder womyn defeats the GL's brute force, unsophisticated, attack by undermining his confidence, then convinces him that destroying an emprie that is the glactic equivalent of the third reich is wrong. Her reasoning is essentially that he has no right to impose his versions of right or wrong upon those who invaded his homeland and killed his daughter (cause a son wouldnt be worth avenging after all) just before setting out to impose her morality on his former allies. In the end, the GL, who represents the "uber-man", or the future of masculinity, ( yet is still unable to shed the non-feminine impurities of either the "modern man" or the elemental man") submits to Diana's womynly authority. So great is his submission that at Diana's behest he gives his power to a female khund who ends up (surprise surprise) ingoring the Gls traditions in favor of her own, assumedly superior, female ones.
I have been informed by various and sundry simombies, that Empress Gail does in fact have a son. I can only imagine the deep and painful torment she subjects this innocent male to as a result of her irrational and fanatic hatred of men, and in good concience beg any responsible man or woman in her locale to contact the DHCP or its local equivalent to ensure he is removed from this hatemongers orbit before his trauma is too great. Her husband has only himself to blame, and must obviously be a masochist to marry a woman so hatfully inclined to his own sex, but the child is an innocent.
