A superhero who should scare us all
THE new film Wonder Woman is becoming a cult, with allfemale audiences frantically cheering its heroine, played by Israeli ex-soldier Gal Gadot, and rising to provide standing ovations at the end. I went to watch this preposterous film to see if I could work out why. Alas, it was not that complicated. The theme is that men in general are useless, dangerous, quite thick, and deserve everything they get, which is what schools and TV dramas and advertisements have been telling girls for years. Eventually, it will actually come true, because more and more men will start to believe it too. Then we’ll all be sorry.