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corysub -> RE: Female role models your examples and opinions (9/6/2008 12:21:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Vendaval
Rather than hijack another thread here is a new one.
Who are your female role models? Feminists you admire? Women you view as heroines?
Please state why and provide links if appropriate.
And for goodness sake, no name calling! [sm=hippie.gif]
While some of the woman mentioned here obviously achieved greatness in their way,I don't think girls look back 30 years for role models like Gloria Steinam and Mother Jones..much less a two thousand years ago. I'm the father of a daughter and work
dozens of 16 year old part-time working girls in my business and none of the people
mentioned here have ever been brought up as "role models". Could be because we
are in a suburb of Philly and not the West Side of Manhattan or Greenwich, Connecticut or Beverly Hills. My guess is that if asked the question, they would not know who these people are. Rather, and unfortunately, due to media, female role models seem to be more current celebrities, movie stars, and TV characters.
In my opinion, "Mom" has filled the void and been the role model for most of these youngsters. I don't think it's a problem, however, since these young females seem
very motivated to be the best they can be, they don't see the "glass ceilings" that older
woman are bumping against (real or perceived) and certainly are way more mature
than boys their age whose brains are still working their way up to their heads from their groins with all the difficulty of a sperm traveling upstream. If I was to extrapolate out the maturity of these girls vs the boys, woman will really rule the
planet within the next two generations!
Of course, it may be the area we are in, it might be our stringent hiring practices, the
religiosity of many people in this small town, but I do think it may be representative of what it is like in small towns all across the fifty states that make up this country.
From a political sense of things, Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin may well fill in
the void, two modern, tough, attractive, passionate woman, whether one agrees or disagrees with their politics.
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