# Wonder Woman is officially bi-sexual **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544 "2017-05-13T17:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/1 "2017-05-13T17:39:35Z")
Not clear on whether it involved a toaster and lovely parting gifts but apparently this happened (officially) in September 2016 so I’m way behind the curve. Not any kind of a brain teaser if you pondered on her origin story for more than a few seconds but still good to have it out and about. This issue has her out on a date! - [Wonder Woman 22 2017](http://community.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?95108-Wonder-Woman-22-preview-Godwatch-part-four) [WONDER WOMAN IS BISEXUAL, DC COMICS CONFIRMS - Are you really that surprised?](http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/dc-comics-wonder-woman-bisexual-2016-9) > [@](#): > > During a candid interview with Comicosity, Wonder Woman comic writer Greg Rucka gave the world confirmation, saying that there is no real concept of gay on the fictional island of Themyscira. > > [Y]es, [Wonder Woman is queer]. I think it’s more complicated though. This is inherently the problem with Diana: we’ve had a long history of people — for a variety of reasons, including sometimes pure titillation, which I think is the worst reason — say, “Ooo. Look. It’s the Amazons. They’re gay!” > > And when you start to think about giving the concept of Themyscira its due, the answer is, “How can they not all be in same sex relationships?” Right? It makes no logical sense otherwise. > > It’s supposed to be paradise. You’re supposed to be able to live happily. You’re supposed to be able — in a context where one can live happily, and part of what an individual needs for that happiness is to have a partner — to have a fulfilling, romantic and sexual relationship. And the only options are women. > > But an Amazon doesn’t look at another Amazon and say, “You’re gay.” They don’t. The concept doesn’t exist. > > Now, are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women? As Nicola and I approach it, the answer is obviously yes. > > And it needs to be yes for a number of reasons. But perhaps foremost among them is, if no, then she leaves paradise only because of a potential romantic relationship with Steve [Trevor]. And that diminishes her character. It would hurt the character and take away her heroism. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/2 "2017-05-13T17:52:05Z")
The interesting thing isn’t so much that she’s bisexual as that she’s probably the only character who wasn’t made retroactively bisexual. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/3 "2017-05-13T18:45:33Z")
So WW/Black Widow slash is more likely, though still impossible? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/4 "2017-05-13T18:48:03Z")
“Why do you think we call it Paradise Island?” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/5 "2017-05-13T18:48:41Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The interesting thing isn’t so much that she’s bisexual as that she’s probably the only character who wasn’t made retroactively bisexual. This. Hands up from all who didn’t suspect it all along. Plus the bondage aspect. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/6 "2017-05-13T18:57:18Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > This. Hands up from all who didn’t suspect it all along. Plus the bondage aspect. 😉 Yeah, I was thinking to myself, Suffering Sappho, this is “news”? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/7 "2017-05-13T20:59:49Z")
There was an obvious gay subtext to _Wonder Woman_ from the very start. Even in the golden age comics, she spent most of her time with Etta Candy and the other Holliday Girls. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/8 "2017-05-13T23:00:18Z")
I don’t know what has been done with the character in the New 52 and whatever the current reboot is, but in the post-Crisis George Perez reboot, it was certainly acknowledged that the Amazons were a lesbian society (although some, such as those devoted to Artemis, were celibate), so Diana certainly knew how that worked, but it was kind of implied she never partook because… She was the only girl on Paradise Island and more than two thousand years younger than the other Amazons. She was raised to see them all as aunts, and the other Amazons viewed her as a surrogate daughter, which would make sexual relations kind of squicky. When she went to man’s world, she continued to view other women through a familial lens rather than a romantic one ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/9 "2017-05-13T23:02:47Z")
I’m wondering where the “bi” came from. Was she ever into guys? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/10 "2017-05-13T23:33:15Z")
Until the last decade every explicit love interest of hers has been a man. Her most important ones: Steve Trevor, her only real love interest from her creation up until Crisis. The Earth Two version had a daughter with him. (Hippolyta, who became The Fury, then married Hawkman and Hawkgirl’s son, Hector, who was, IIRC, the Silver Scarab at the time.) Trevor Barnes, who was significant for a few years in the early 2000s. Batman was mostly a thing in the DCAU, but was a pretty big thing for a while. (I kind of hate it, but, hey.) Tom Tresser, AKA, Nemesis. While their relationship had a rather ignominious end, it was a major one for a few years. (And one of the big steps in their relationship was engaging in a sort of betrothal ritual, which made explicit canon that Amazons engage in f/f romantic/sexual relationships.) Superman, who she was with for 2 or 3 years, up until his most recent ‘death’. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/11 "2017-05-14T00:26:44Z")
Well, with that lasso of hers, she’s a rapist, so who cares if she’s an equal-opportunity rapist? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-is-officially-bi-sexual/786544/12 "2017-05-14T00:31:22Z")
Thanks. She’s DC so I stopped caring immediately ;), but I appreciate the litany of people I’ve never heard of, except maybe that bat man. 😃