Wonder Woman and Buffy - two chicks with great powers, male fantasy or female empowerment?

I liked this post by gabrielleabelle quite a bit, it expresses fairly clearly some of my own thoughts on the issue of how female sexuality has been exploited by and for men in comics historically...and why this is a problem.

http://gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com/216802.html

As I stated in her blog - it is particularly an issue in the comic book world. We see more female than male nudity in comic books and anime films. Often women are sex objects. If provided with power - it is in a manner that suits a male fantasy, going back as far as Wonder Woman. Who was allegedly created as a feminist role model in a world torn by male hatred. The creator was William Moulton Marston, a controversial figure in later years. According to a documentary on comics I saw a while back - Marston was described as a fetishest who was into dominatrixes and Wonder Woman came from his own sexual fantasies.
( From Wonder Woman to Buffy - about feminism and comic books, using primarily Wonder Woman as an example )