Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here is your 30-second summary.

She was forged in the fires of the suffragist movement,

and beneath her abbreviated costume beats the heart of a lion fighting for truth, equality, and justice

by the spear of Athena and the thunderbolts of Jove, its Wonder Woman.

The End

This episode does have a little ears warning.

You know how Cartoon Network has the adult swim cartoons?

Let's consider this episode the history chicks version of adult swim.

Yes, we are talking about a character who was created for kids,

and of course we don't get really explicit on anything,

but there are some more mature themes that are present in the Wonder Woman story

that you need to determine if your children are ready to hear.

Those include discussions of suicide, alternative lifestyles, and adult, let's call it play.

When Wonder Woman first appeared on the surface, she might have been seen as simply

the feminine answer to the patriotism found in the new Captain America comic strip

during the dark days of World War II.

But she was inspired by a feminist movement that goes back almost a century before her birth,

and she serves as a bridge between the Battle for Women's Suffrage in the mid-1800s

and the feminist movements of the 1960s and the 1970s that swept all over the world.

Two big famous things.

What was happening between the 1920s and the 1960s?

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