4/8/18 discussion about American viewpoints on guilt and the law

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I made in April of 2018 regarding what I saw as various American political viewpoints regarding guilt and the law.

The thread uses the books Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality, Seduction of the Innocent, and The Secret History of Wonder Woman to look at how public opinion about guilt is often shaped more by concepts of the general intelligence of human beings, the general sinfulness or innocence of human beings, and the access human beings have to vice. It counterpoises this public opinion against the concept of due process, which uses evidence and assumes people are innocent until proven guilty.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is pretty badly affected. My apologies.

I also have to say that, even despite the way Twitter has mangled this thread, this is still one of my favorite threads that I've ever written.

10/14/17 review of film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, dir. by Angela Robinson

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, directed by Angela Robinson.

The thread gives a summary of the film. It gives a lot of context for why I watched the film. It compares the film to Jill Lepore's book The Secret History of Wonder Woman. It discusses the emotional aspects of the film and the theatricality of the film, which I liked. It also criticizes the film for being kind of tepid, too self-serious, and too derivative of other films.

I saw this film at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's Sloans Lake theater in Denver, Colorado.

11/27/14 review of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore.

Jill Lepore's book discusses the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston. My thread discusses the connection between WM Marston and feminist leader Margaret Sanger; Marston's lovers and creative partners, Elizabeth Holloway and Olive Byrne; and the influence of fetish on the Wonder Woman stories.

Jill Lepore's book The Secret History of Wonder Woman was published by Penguin Random House. You can find the book here.

Also, I bought The Secret History of Wonder Woman at the Tattered Cover Book Store, a bookstore chain in the Denver metro area.