Realizing Wonder Woman is Not Real
‘Leaning in’ too far makes you Wonder Woman, and she’s not real by Laura Baverman, Upstart Business Journal
“We have opportunities today—to choose our educations, careers, spouses—that would’ve stunned our grandmothers. But now we’re dazed and confused by all the choices. Feminism was meant to remove a fixed set of expectations; instead, we now interpret it as a route to personal perfection. Because we can do anything, we feel as if we have to do everything. In other words, women today face towering expectations: a pileup of the roles society’s long heaped on us, plus the opportunities feminism created. Every day I meet young women who dazzle me. But I also see the pressure they’re under. To be mothers and astrophysicists. Hard-bodied size 2s with perfect 4.0s. To be perfect. And these expectations aren’t limited to a few spheres of their lives. They’re everywhere.
Only Wonder Woman truly has and does it all, Spar says, and it’s helpful to remember that’s she’s not real.”
