Heroes
Overthink
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The Shero Is the Girl Boss of Heroism, Right?
I really do associate the notion of the hero in its archetypical forms with masculinity. And I think it's telling, for instance, that we need a notion of the shero or the heroine in order to qualify that we're talking about women sometimes. So I want to just raise the bar a little bit for whom we call a hero without going all the way to requiring that hero be a masculine military figure That rushes into battle or is readily willing to sacrifice the life of his friends just to come home. There could be a kernel there.
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