Just two months after her appointment, comic superheroine Wonder Woman‘s time as honorary ambassador for female empowerment at the United Nations will end this week.
The UN’s decision to fire Wonder Woman comes after criticisms, including from several UN employees, and an online Care2 petition signed by nearly 45,000 people.
It called for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to drop the character for being too ‘overly sexualised’ to serve as the face of global female empowerment.
Based on the above photo, the petitioners have a point.
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Today in NYC: #WithWonderWoman event focusing on work for gender equality. Take action –> https://t.co/Cel93qk5ai #reallifewonderwoman pic.twitter.com/y5ClFdFME1
— United Nations (@UN) October 21, 2016
‘Although the original creators may have intended Wonder Woman to represent a strong and independent ‘warrior’ woman with a feminist message, the reality is that the character’s current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions,’ the petition said.
Just for reference, here is the actual “current iteration” of Wonder Woman that “sends the wrong message” according to members of the UN. pic.twitter.com/SzPI5i5Fct
— Andrew Dyce (@andrewbdyce) December 13, 2016
‘It is alarming that the United Nations would consider using a character with an overtly sexualized image at a time when the headline news in United States and the world is the objectification of women and girls.’
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Some people really don’t understand Wonder Woman. I feel sorry for them. (Story @GailSimone art me and @hificolor) pic.twitter.com/rG9T7cg27x
— Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) December 13, 2016
This is the ambassador the @UN just rejected. Apparently, they know nothing about #WonderWoman (an actual UN ambassador in the comics): pic.twitter.com/MMB0MeUMtf
— Phil Jimenez (@Philjimeneznyc) December 13, 2016
The UN meanwhile did not explain why the project with Wonder Woman would come to such an apparently abrupt end on Friday.
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