The long-term financial impact of Wonder Woman's stunning box office success will hopefully mean more films starring women, directed by women, coming to a screen near you in the near future. But the superheroine film's cultural impact is already having an immediate impact, from its normalized non-male gaze to its effect on little kids across the world.

To that point, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, shared a tweet of an amazing list of kids' responses to seeing the film: "My producer just sent me this... ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! This makes every hard day worth it. Thank you to whomever wrote it!!"

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The list's full transcript details what happens when you introduce a bunch of kindergarteners to a character as cool and inspirational as Diana Prince. Basically: kids know quality when they see it, and they all can't wait until they grow up one day and become their own Wonder Women:

"I work at a kindergarten and this is a collection of cute Wonder Woman related things that happened within a week of the movie being released.

  • On Monday, a boy who was obsessed with Iron Man, told me he had asked his parents for a new Wonder Woman lunchbox.
  • A little girl said 'When I grow up I want to speak hundreds of languages like Diana'
  • This girl had her parents revamp her Beauty and the Beast birthday party in THREE DAYS because she simply had to have a Wonder Woman party.
  • Seven girls playing together during recess on Tuesday, saying that since they all wanted to e Wonder Woman they had agreed to be Amazons and not fight but work together to defeat evil.
  • There is this one girl that refuses to listen to you unless you address her as Wonder Woman.
  • Another girl very seriously asked the teacher if she could ditch her uniform for the Wonder Woman armor bc she "wanted to be ready if she needed to save the world." The teacher laughed and said it was okay, and the next day the girl came dressed as Wonder Woman and not a single kid batted an eye.
  • They are making a wrap-up dance show, and they asked the teacher if they could come as superheroes, they are going to sing a song about bunnies.
  • This kid got angry and threw a plastic car over his head and a girl gasped 'LIKE IN THE MOVIE'
  • A boy threw his candy wrapping in the floor and a 5-year-old girl screamed "DON'T POLLUTE YOU IDIOT, THAT IS WHY THERE ARE NO MEN IN T[H]EMYSCIRA"
  • On Wednesday, a girl came with a printed list of every single female superhero and her powers, to avoid any trouble when deciding roles at recess.
  • I was talking to one of the girls that hadn't seen the movie, and the next day she came and very seriously told me "you were right, Wonder Woman was way better than Frozen."

Consider this your friendly reminder that if this movie completely changed the way these girls and boys thought about themselves and the world in a week, imagine what the next generation will achieve if we give them more movies like Wonder Woman."

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Those tears that you feel gathering in the corners of your eyes? Those are tears of hope, which spring from the realization that a generation of girls (and boys) and otherwise are starting their lives with an inescapable depiction of femme strength. Children truly are the future.

From: Cosmopolitan US