Aug08
Real Heroines
on August 8, 2011 at 1:32 pmI will be back with the promised story of the menehune for MythBits in a day or so, but for now, I wanted to share this link with you all.
I write about young women who find and express personal courage. I want all of us to remember that such people do not belong to the realm of myth. They are very, very real. Here is the story of one of them:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/nancy-wake-the-feisty-warrior-who-became-a-hero-of-the-resistance/story-fn7x8me2-1226110719059
It’s even more significant because this is someone whose story of courage and heart is not widely known. It should be.
And that is why it’s here for you now.
I posted about her on my ljs, too. She was one tough cookie!
She certainly was. And thank goodness she was so.
Nancy Wake is an amazing role-model. She is like a real life Alanna the Lioness.
I’m curious, because of discussions I have noted elsewhere: How many people–male as well as female–find it annoying to hear words like “feisty” and “spunky” applied to heroines rather than the vocab usually used to describe heroes?
And what are some other words similar to “feisty” and “spunky” that should be asked to leave the building when we want to talk about heroines?
I know, right! I mean, they just don’t sound right with heroine or hero like brave or courageous or valiant do. Stalwart is also a word that I think feels wrong paired with a hero or heroine.
“Stalwart” is too dated to sound right, to my ears, and I’m someone who finds old-fashioned speech charming. And then there’s “doughty.” I have seen the phrase “a doughty band of heroes” and never fail to read it as “doughy” which leaves me with the amusing mental image of a bunch of pastry blobs going off to war. [g]