The other day I watched an interesting biographical drama film about American psychologist William Moulton Marston and the two important women in his life.

William Marston invented the lie-detector, and he also created the fictional character Wonder Woman.

Throughout the film there were under-lying hints around feminism, equal rights for women, equal power for both sexes, and an openness regarding personal choices for relationships.

As Marston was developing Wonder Woman for comics, he was pushing the boundaries as to what was morally acceptable in that era of late 1930’s and early 1940’s.

He pushed hard to create a persona of what a woman could do, which was based on his DISC theory, which meant: Dominance…Inducement…Submission…Compliance.

The book got banned by an ethics group.

Wonder Woman comics, as well as other comics, were now being burned in the streets.

Wonder Woman comic survived, but the sexual and bondage imagery disappeared after William Marston’s death in 1947, along with Wonder Woman's superpowers.

Wonder Woman was finally reclaimed by famous activist Gloria Steinem in 1972, when she put the character on the cover of the first issue of Ms. Magazine as the quintessential symbol of female empowerment.

So, imagine what current history would look like if Wonder Woman’s creation and comic book existence was totally eradicated, in the 1940’s, because of the views and morals of a few elite and narrow-minded individuals.

While watching this film I had no idea of the background behind Wonder Woman’s creation.

I have learned that there is always a back-story to every story and that is usually where the truth is buried.

That back-story history is what needs to be preserved, not ignored our eliminated, but, to be there for reference, knowledge, and understanding.

As a child, I was only exposed to the re-formulated, transformed, milder version, of Wonder Woman.

Even later in life, watching Wonder Women on TV, I never thought anything about this being a movement for woman’s rights.

I just saw it as men and women superheroes doing what they could to protect mankind from evil.

This movie made me think about our current state of acceptance, censorship, and compliance regarding history that may have been racist, inappropriate, discriminatory, or sexist in nature.

We need to be very cautious as to how we think about our history.

Without our history we would not be where we are today.

Removing or eradicating history, so we only know the current history, will only lead to someday removing our current history, to make room for the new current history.

That cycle would create a culture of young individuals, never learning from past beliefs, intolerances, and mistakes, because that history would have been all eradicated.

So, when is History, No Longer History?

Never