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Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves."
Nonsense, says Ong. Wonder Woman is only a female Superman, preaching "the cult of force, spiked, by means of her pretentiously scanty 'working' attire, with a little commercial sex. . . . When not in her outré 'working' clothes she habitually wears a suitcoat and tie among the jeweled guests at luncheon parties and at formal evening affairs."
Walter Ong finds Wonder Woman sexy, but "this is not a healthy sex directed toward marriage and family life, but an antisocial sex, made as alluring as possible while its normal term in marriage is barred by the ground rules."
Last week Superman Inc. announced that it had bought Wonder Woman.