Think The Wizard of Oz is just a sweet, Depression-era children's movie that helps kill a couple of hours over Thanksgiving? Think again. According to University of Kansas professor Megan Williams — who has taught a course on the film — it's actually an anti-feminist nightmare and very different from the book. For starters, she's the first green witch in popular culture. And she's scarier — so much so that producers had to trim about a dozen of her lines to tone it down for little kids. But the biggest change was to take a story that was praised as the first feminist kid's book and flip it on its head. Instead of going on more adventures (as she does in the book), all Dorothy wants to do is go back into the home at the end of the movie. The Wicked Witch is the opposite of that, symbolizing how scary women with power are, Williams notes — she's single, she doesn't want to stay at home, she runs her own kingdom and instead of waiting for men to give her pretty things (like the Ruby Slippers) she just takes them. Then again, what do academics know? The character — which Hamilton reprised only once, in a 1976 episode of Sesame Street, with Oscar the Grouch helping the Witch look for her lost broom — ranked No. 4 among women in the THR poll.