Making the point that you can't be what you can't see
Women - and the marginalised - are empowered by people like them in important roles on screen.
"SHE'S so strong," the little girl seated next to me at a Brooklyn screening of Wonder Woman kept repeating to her mother, occasionally shielding her eyes.
It was the first fight scene of the movie, and I was trying not to sob.
Half an hour earlier, I'd been contemplating skipping the film. I'd never read the comics. I wasn't a superfan. The last action movie I saw was Batman, the remake before the remake, in my parents' living room with my younger brothers, sometime in the mid to late 1990s.
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