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Matthew Dicks: "Wonder Woman Breakdown"

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Wonder Woman Saves the Day

In the first Wonder Woman film, we have two characters, two heroes left. She manages to convince a deadbeat dad to go home and spend some time with his son. This is not how any superhero film ends if the superhero is a man. There are no male superheroes in the world who are winning the day by convincing the bad guy to be a nicer person. We do not want our superheroes to essentially become social workers who convince fathers to make better decisions.

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