Just curious, what is your preference when it comes to Wonder Woman’s -er- preference: bisexual, straight, Steve Trevor-al, forgo the Kinsey scale all together, or something else? Pre-crisis Diana seems obvious, but post-crisis Diana is more mysterious.
I don’t think it’s very mysterious. She’s either straight or bisexual. Thing about Diana is that she has the absolute minimum possible self-denial to begin with, and she’s from a culture where lesbianism is the norm (It’s no longer subtext as of the Perez era, and even pre-Crisis there was an awful lot more handwringing over her falling for a MAN as opposed to “well, that’s natural, first one she’s ever seen”) so all she’s ever seen growing up are female-female relationships, and when she was younger she probably expected to fall in love with a woman. Since they got rid of Steve they’ve still had her acknowledge physical attractions to Superman, Trevor Barnes, Rama, and Batman. She doesn’t lie to herself, and even if she did she’d be lying in the opposite direction there.
A female love interest, though, is not off the table. She’s still got chemistry with women, she’s from a culture where same-sex relationships are natural, and she wouldn’t deny herself the chance to act on an attraction like this. It’s possible she’s more drawn to men right now because they’re uncharted territory and she’s an explorer /adventurer type of personality. But the attraction to both is probably there, I read her as bisexual.
My personal favorite for her, though, is still Steve Trevor. He’s the love interest custom-designed for her at her creation and as many changes as she’s had she is still the Golden Age girl at heart, that can’t be shaken with retcons or Crises. Eventually, this guy has to come back. Also, as a reconciliation between the warring genders is at the heart of Wonder Woman, I favor a full-time male love interest (because for fucking serious, Diana courting a macho military guy who respects her power is a much better Amazons Forgive Men storyline than Hippolyta dating a rapist).
