[seniol]

I'd say that daydreaming about the 60s or the 70s, will not change the harsh reality of today:

(08-03-2016 06:14 AM)1365457 Wrote:

Wonder Woman Lynda Carter Wants You to Vote for Her Friend Hillary Clinton

http://www.people.com/article/lynda-cart...ident-2016



Lynda Carter: I’m not a female icon, Hillary Clinton is

http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/lynda-carte...illary-is/



I hope now it is quite clear that Lynda Carter is not pro-men at all...

[debeguiled]

I do not see how posting current photos of Lynda Carter or her political views changes that she was hot in the seventies.

I agree with you that today is full of harsh realities.

I just don't see how a couple of pictures of a good looking woman has turned into a mini-cascade of disparagement.

It's a non issue.

You should have bigger fish to fry.

[seniol]

Feminist Wonder Woman seems that will be a huge box office hit, bringing in some extra 1 Billion income and a part of this billion also towards the campaign of Hillary , very likely

[Uzisuicide]

I don't care what message the new movie sends. Truth is I'd go see a movie with the current Wonder Woman if it consisted solely of her reading the phone book.


Uzi

[seniol]

You can watch that on YouTube for free, no need to poison your mind with feminist propaganda and to fund it as well with your money

[Mentavious]

Who cares?

She's an old character that's basically a demi God with mystical weapons. You guys need to take a break.

[seniol]

superheroes movies are box office disasters, and Wonder Woman is being called already a big "mess":

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert...89826.html

[Que enspastic]

I've only ever liked two superhero movies : The Dark Knight and Iron Man. All the rest have been pus. Am I the only one who thinks most of these films are pure garbage ? Everyone at work seems to love them

[seniol]

The masses of sheep desperately need to believe that there will be superheroes that will just save them whenever something bad happens, so they have to just wait and do nothing: do no self-improvement,
do no changes, do nothing at all... because help is "on the way" already.

This "being saved soon" by good superheroes is one of the most idiotic mass delusions of our society

[Cobra]

Gal Gadot is very feminine. I remember her from the Fast and Furious movies. I think she was intentionally cast. Men are not drawn to women that look and act like men. Just because women can fight also doesn't make them less feminine automatically. Gal Gadot satisfies these requirements and the producers know it will draw men to the theater and rightfully so.

That's why a Gina Carano to me would be less suited. While she is feminine, she is, to me, significantly less so than Gal.

I don't know, there is something inherent to me about American chicks that makes them less feminine than other women in the world. I think even American guys know and feel this.

[Captainstabbin]

(08-14-2016 07:54 PM)Cobra Wrote:  

That's why a Gina Carano to me would be less suited. While she is feminine, she is, to me, significantly less so than Gal.

Did you see her in Deadpool? She looked horrible. Manly and chubby.

[Cobra]

I take it back. Gina Carano wasn't feminine at all there. Fuck this girl power bullshit. I'm watching the olympics and the girls on the US team for gymnastics look manly as hell, while the ones from Russia look feminine. What the fuck?

I hope this isn't what young girls are aspiring to but I'm way wrong aren't I?

[seniol]

I like Gal Gadot too. I will watch her in other movies, in which movies does she have hot scenes?

[weambulance]

Well, Wonder Woman was an Amazon. That's why I think Gina Carano is a better choice. Nothing about Gal Gadot makes me think "Amazon" and that's a good thing, in my opinion.

[seniol]

Gal Gadot is 31 but didn't hit the wall yet

[Sam Malone]

Gal Gadot in "Keeping Up With The Joneses"

[IvanDrago]

RIP Gina Carano.

[WalterBlack]

Wonder Woman Gal Gadot backs mocked Sri Lankan cosplayers

Quote:

Hollywood actress Gal Gadot has thrown her support behind two young women in Sri Lanka after they were cyber-bullied for cosplaying as Wonder Woman.

The two had become the target of a wave of online memes, body-shaming and harassment.

Both Gadot, who played the character in the recent blockbuster movie, and its director Patty Jenkins tweeted support and encouragement.

The case triggered a fresh debate about online bullying.

When Amaya Suriyapperuma and fellow cosplayer Seshani Cooray decided to dress up as Wonder Woman at the Comic Con 2017 event in Colombo, they were not expecting it to send them on a rollercoaster ride of demeaning online memes.

After the first day, photographers at the event began sharing their pictures online and photos of the two women were picked up by Facebook groups mocking them for their appearance.

It was only the next day the two found out. It was Ms Suriyapperuma's birthday, and friends who had spotted the memes tried to keep them secret, but that was bound to fail.

"First I was shocked," Ms Suriyapperuma told the BBC. I didn't really let it get to me although I was genuinely baffled at why these people would spend their valuable time hating someone they don't even know."

Her fellow cosplayer agrees. "I was offended and shocked at how the internet reacted," said Ms Cooray.

"Most of the memes and comments I received seemed to objectify me."

She was drawn to the character of Wonder Woman because she feels it empowers young women like herself to be independent and strong minded.

Ms Suriyapperuma says she didn't reply to any of the comments or publicly retaliate because she thought they didn't deserve her energies.

"Instead, me and my friends and the whole Sri Lankan geek community would band together and silently report every single meme and post and page. Some even got unpublished on Facebook as a result."

What then happened was a remarkable reversal of the tide and an overwhelming wave of support started building up online.

"There was immense support on the Facebook page of Geek Club of Sri Lanka and people I didn't even know personally were messaging me asking me to stay strong," Ms Suriyapperuma recalls. "It was amazing."

One such tweet by a complete stranger pledging support went viral - and that's how the story found its way to Hollywood and reached Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot.

And once the two of them threw some serious Hollywood weight into the ring, the attention the two Sri Lankan women received went to a whole new level.

"It definitely feels amazing to be recognised and praised by Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot herself!" Ms Suriyapperuma said. "I'm a huge fan of Gal Gadot so this has been amazing."

Ms Cooray was equally stunned that their idols actually recognised them. "It felt amazing - my inner fangirl is never going to forget this!"

Triggering a broader debate

Their case sparked a wider online debate around the problems of bullying online.

"I think it's actually a good thing that this is a public story," Ms Suriyapperuma explains. "If we didn't get this much coverage this would've been just another case of cyber-bullying.

"But now everyone knows it and thus we have opened a very important conversation about bullying and body shaming."

As just one example, an online petition has been started to put more pressure on Facebook to monitor content for hate or cyber-bullying and block such posts.

But the case goes beyond just the online world, Ms Suriyapperuma points out. It ties in with the broader goal of empowering women generally.

Looking at her own experiences growing up in Sri Lanka, she says the country's society needs to see examples of women who stand up to hate without running and hiding away or retaliating by going down to their level.

"If people start seeing women being strong as a normal thing - which is what the movie tried to do as well as what I want - then more and more women will stop tolerating harassment."

WYB?

[Beyond Borders]

^ Article doesn't say what they were being mocked about. What were people saying? Was it the feminists shaming them or thirsty keyboard jockeys?

That pic with the slimmer one laughing looks like an unfortunate shot but judging by the one with them together I'd be happy to hit on either if I wandered into a Sri Lankan "geek" convention. Hell, if that's how the nerdy chicks look, maybe time to check out Sri Lanka - they make some of the "cool girls" at my local college bars look like a bunch of beer-drinking carnies, which I guess some of them kind of are.

I dig their attitude about not letting the comments get to them too much and then fighting back behind the scenes without retaliating. That's the type of feminine resolve you can expect from a woman in that part of the world. No lashing out or protests or acting like victims or vulgar insults or attention whoring or carrying mattresses around the city.

Refreshing.

[realologist]

WTUWML

(Would tie up with magic lasso)

[The Beast1]

(09-01-2017 05:48 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

^ Article doesn't say what they were being mocked about. What were people saying? Was it the feminists shaming them or thirsty keyboard jockeys?

That pic with the slimmer one laughing looks like an unfortunate shot but judging by the one with them together I'd be happy to hit on either if I wandered into a Sri Lankan "geek" convention. Hell, if that's how the nerdy chicks look, maybe time to check out Sri Lanka - they make some of the "cool girls" at my local college bars look like a bunch of beer-drinking carnies, which I guess some of them kind of are.

I dig their attitude about not letting the comments get to them too much and then fighting back behind the scenes without retaliating. That's the type of feminine resolve you can expect from a woman in that part of the world. No lashing out or protests or acting like victims or vulgar insults or attention whoring or carrying mattresses around the city.

Refreshing.

Hindustan times says that were skinny shamed

http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/lank...CdRgN.html

Quote:

But the next day, just before I had to take to the stage, dressed up as another character, one of my friends sent me a meme of my picture and I was shocked. People were commenting on my skinny frame. I had never been face-to-face with cyber bullying of this scale

I smell BS.

[kosko]

Doesn't every Sri Lankan girl have a dress size of like 1? It seems odd that being "skinny" is something they would be mocked for. Something does not add up here, my first gut reaction was that the girls got slammed on as they are brown.

Overall, I think Cosplay is dumb...

I also think Wonder Woman is dumb...

But I oddly like the outfits on them, odd boner happening here.

But, the girls are cute... I WB both... I prefer the skinny one on the left.

[Kurgan]

The answer is plain and simple: Feminists are butthurt that Gal Gadot is 1000X hotter than they are and not like the frumpy Ghostsbusters from the Ghostbusters remake. I'd take a 1000 Gal's over 1000's purple-hair dyed tattooed landwhales anyday.

[Beyond Borders]

(09-01-2017 08:45 PM)kosko Wrote:  

Doesn't every Sri Lankan girl have a dress size of like 1? It seems odd that being "skinny" is something they would be mocked for.

For some reason I assumed they were being heckled online by people in the West - maybe I thought that because the story was big enough for people in Hollywood to take notice? Seems like a lot was left out of the story - not even any screenshots of the supposed bullying? I guess it was just too much for our tender sensibilities to see for ourselves.

[Dusty]

I'd smash Gadot's Jewish ass right into the mattress.