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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/4/2008 9:15:53 PM   
Vendaval


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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/4/2008 9:31:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		My sisters, all 5 of them.  We were raised on a farm in Kansas.  All of us worked the farm whether it was milking, plowing, throwing hay bales, whatever was needed.  All of them have had successful careers and raised families.  I don't think I really had any choice but to become a feminist.
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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/4/2008 9:38:28 PM   
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"It was through her work with the CSO that Dolores met Cesar Chavez. They both realized the need to organize farm workers. In 1962, after the CSO turned down Cesar’s request, as their president, to organize farm workers, Cesar and Dolores resigned from the CSO. Dolores, single with seven children, joining Cesar and his family in Delano, California. There they formed the National Farm Workers Association ("NFWA"), the predecessor to the UFW. "

http://www.lasculturas.com/aa/bio/bioDoloresHuerta.htm

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/4/2008 9:42:45 PM   
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Then the list is very long and goes from Harriet Tubman to Oprah Winfrey.

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/4/2008 10:25:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		First I must mention the women of my own family.
And the women in the family of the partner I lost to cancer.
Heroines and outliers, one and all.

On a more public note everyone in the USA owes acknowledgment
to Abigail Adams for her contributions to our country.

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 11:56:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		I really love reading the tributes to family members, folks.  We need all the good vibes we can get around here.  

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 12:12:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks, Vendaval - I don't think her book was published when my mother did her research (1983), which makes it even more interesting. Going to look into getting it. Thank you again!

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 12:44:44 PM   
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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 12:54:57 PM   
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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 1:14:08 PM   
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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 1:59:34 PM   
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Oh, I am going to say it, but I expect flak, Margaret Thatcher in her early years for being the best the party had and become the first female prime minister. I did admire her for her attitude to the rest of the world, in that we are Britain and we are not to be abused, especially by Europe. I also admired her for her order to sink the General Belgrano warship, so what it was out of the war zone, but Britain was at war with Argentina, therefore a battleship was a legitimate target and was attacked. What the woolly minded don't understand, is if that warship turned about and went into the war zone, an armour plated old style battleship would wreak a fair amount of havoc to British Forces, plus those long range large bore guns. Good for her for taking the responsibility in what was to become a minefield of stupidity.

So, she lost the plot in her later years, but name a politician that has not.

Oh, another is Dion Fortune for her work in WW2 and the most excellent books she wrote.


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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 4:48:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mine as well. She kept kicking Roman ass for awhile because they underestimated her
and didn't take her seriously because she was a woman.

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 4:56:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Queen Elizabeth I for me as well. I have read and own several books on her.
She went through alot to gain her throne and then to keep it. Alot of attempts were
made on her life. Then she had to make a very tough dicission and have another
anointed Queen put to death. The way she died is just sad. It seems like she just gave up
on life.

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 6:44:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		oh - j k rowling - because she turned my youngest onto the joy of reading. I place that squarely at her feet.

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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/5/2008 11:49:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Someone asked in the male counter part to this thread about fictional characters that are heroic.  Marian Zimmer Bradley wrote about 2 legendary women from history that inspire me greatly.
 
Morgana la Fey in Mists of Avalon
 
and
 
Cassandra of Troy in Firebrand
 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Marion%20Zimmer%20Bradley


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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!  



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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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/6/2008 12:24:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		What about some of the women in The Bible ?  How about Ruth, Esther, Deborah, Mary and Martha?

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So in this gray haze we'll be meating again, and on that
great day, I will tease you all the same."
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RE: Female role models your examples and opinions - 9/6/2008 12:45:30 AM   
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