Editing Wonder Woman (section)

====Sexual empowerment icon====
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Wonder Woman's signature weapon is her Lasso of Truth; consequently, much of her crime-fighting powers came from bondage, and her only exploitable weakness was, essentially, bondage. Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette had teamed up to work on ''Wonder Woman: Earth One''.<ref name="fanbros.com"/>

Wonder Woman's [[BDSM|sexual and bondage themes]] in her earliest days were not without purpose, however. Her creator, William Moulton Marston, theorized that human relationships could be broken down into dominance, submission, inducement and compliance roles which were embedded into our psyche. Because males were, more often than not, dominant in societies, Marston believed that "Women as a sex, are many times better equipped to assume emotional leadership than are males."<ref>{{cite book|title=Wonder Woman Unbound : the Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine|first=Tim|last=Hanley|isbn=9781613749098|oclc=859187727|date=April 2014|publisher=Chicago Review Press }}</ref> Marston wanted to convey his progressive ideals, through his use of bondage imagery, that women are not only capable of leadership roles, but should be in charge of society. Although Marston had good intentions with these themes, in Wonder Woman's early appearances, the bondage elements were controversial, as they were often seen to overly fetishize women in power rather than promote such women. Noah Berlatsky criticized this imagery in Wonder Woman's earliest days noting that "the comics take sensual pleasure in women's disempowerment."<ref>{{cite book|title=Wonder Woman: New Edition with Full Color Illustrations|first=Noah|last=Berlatsky|oclc=1078908120}}</ref> Despite having the mixed messages of this imagery, Marston fiercely believed that women would soon rule the earth and meant to showcase his predictions through sexual themes in his stories. He was an open feminist while studying at Harvard where he once said "Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked!"<ref>{{cite book |title=The secret history of wonder woman |first=Jill |last=Lepore |publisher=Vintage |year=2015 |isbn=9780804173407 |oclc=941724731}}</ref>