Where are the female super heroes?
Posted by aunt mommy on 04 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: mundaneities
I know my kid thinks that I’m a super hero but where are the ladies?
When I did the planning for this year’s birthday parties, last minute as Wolfie kept changing his mind (and Helvi’s too young to object as strenuously to my wild ideas), I could find almost no female super hero gear in local stores. No Wonder Woman. No Power Puff girls (one cake at Publix). The closest I got was Dora the Explorer, and Ariel (because mermaids are heroes, too, says Wolfie).
But it’s not just super heroes. Laser Beam (aka the hub) and I were talking about movies a recently and we came across the same phenomenon. Most of the top 100 American (and probably world wide) movies around (gross profits) have male leads. We debated about the star of Titanic, but I had to get down into the fifties of some lists to even get a female lead (My Big Fat Greek Wedding).
Why?
Do we not find them compelling? Or are their everyday actions heroic? Or is it a habit of old?