Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We saw Wonder Woman yesterday afternoon.  We both enjoyed it, and it's refreshing to have a model for girls that counters all the old boy action movies, with women as accessories.  I'm generally sick of all these comic book movies, though as a kid I certainly read comics.  I read Classics comics like Treasure Island and Black Beauty, and Archie and Veronica and romance comics, but I remember loving Superman and Lois Lane.  The superheroes were as bad as war comics.  I was looking for the romance and story, and not fighting, fighting, fighting.  Because I had a younger brother, I was exposed to G.I. Joe and scary comics, but there was nothing there I identified with.  And there still isn't.  I can hardly stand to watch the previews of these movies.  They are noisy, violent and explosive.  Battle after battle.  I'm no purist:  I love a lot of sci fy movies.  But I love them a lot more after Contact and Alien and Gravity and now Arrival.  I like seeing women solving problems and testing their courage and engaging fearlessly with the unknown.  So good for Wonder Woman, but I am not holding my breath about any change in our culture.  I'd pass out.