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

Hello and welcome back to the second part of our coverage of Wonder Woman.

We strongly encourage you to go back and listen to part one, but in case you are not in a position to do so, two things.

We are not going to be as overt, perhaps as we were during the first episode, but nevertheless, I am going to perpetuate the little ears warning through this episode.

Also, there is some casual mention of alternative lifestyles that just might require explanation as mild as they are.

And the second thing, a little tiny wrap up of where we have gotten to so far.

So Mr. Marsden creator of Wonder Woman has grown up and gotten interested in several things, the lie detector, bondage, two life partners, the infant motion picture industry, and now the world of comic books.

We have connected Wonder Woman to her origins in the suffragist movement, and now we are going to move her through the 40s and 50s and beyond.

And so without further ado, on with the show.

Well, there were so many elements in the Wonder Woman comics drawn from Marsden's history.

The Golden Lasso is a direct line back to his lie detector that he never managed to get off the ground.

He used it several times to great effect to actually revenge himself on judges that never thought his lie detector was awesome.

They had other names that were kind of obvious and the Golden Lasso prevailed with the lie detector hadn't kind of thing.

The bullet deflecting bracelets are definitely all of wedding bracelets, but another element and one that raised eyebrows was the bondage.

Someone with way more time than Susan or I have calculated that Wonder Woman is in chains or tied up or otherwise confined in fully 25% of the panels in the series.

And they actually made it so that she had to be tied up in that the only way to take away her power was for a man to solder her cuffs together to put them together.

So she couldn't escape what she going to do. That's like the whole plot of the stories.

Now images of women in change is a very classic suffragist concept, illustrations of women bound by the chains of patriarchy.

Even during the most famous marches women from states where women couldn't vote post in chains on the steps in the pictures along with their freed sisters who could vote suffragist chain themselves to fences Margaret singer herself was once on stage gagged and bound just standing there after she was prohibited from giving a speech and a male proxy delivered her message.

So the bondage itself comes from an honest place in his imagery, I think I mean that's that's its foundation.

Yeah, he had studied it with olive in college and learned it from Marjorie.

No, I mean the fundamental like principle, not the actual I'm just being naughty.

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