# What is Wonder Woman exactly?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wonder-woman-exactly/665861>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 10, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wonder-woman-exactly/665861 "2013-08-10T12:32:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wonder-woman-exactly/665861/61 "2013-08-18T05:05:42Z")

</div>

> [@planetcory](#):
>
> I’ve thought about that ancient Kryptonian theory as well. In fact, my strong suspicion is that’s the angle DC will go wtih for all it’s heroes. Something like the X-Men’s mutant gene, except activated by lab accidents etc.

DC already has the meta-gene as an in universe explanation for where most of their earth born heroes come from. Although I haven’t been reading the New52 stuff, so I don’t know if they have continued to use it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wonder-woman-exactly/665861/62 "2013-08-18T10:26:49Z")

</div>

> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
>
> I suppose Wonder Woman, like most Amazons, is a lesbian in the same sense as [Hippolyta](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyta) in the stories of Heracles’ ninth labor: Until the right man comes along and takes her girdle off. Or ties her up and rams a torpedo-shaped object between her legs. Or an [actual torpedo](http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/wonder-woman-torpedo-arrival1.jpg), whatever.

Well, her origin story does have her falling in love with a man, a crashed pilot she nurses back to health. But I don’t know if it has her being a lesbian before that. Seeing as she’s the youngest one there, it wouldn’t really be necessary. She’s just barely an adult, if I remember correctly. And a lot of Themyscirans are celibate.

It makes sense, since they are they are the embodied spirits of slain women. At least some of them are going to be exclusively heterosexual.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wonder-woman-exactly/665861.md?page=3)