Awesome women
sansets is hosting a women appreciation challenge, and asking for A list in your journal of awesome women you can think of. Now there's a subject I can happily ramble on about at length, or at least for the length of ten bullet points...
1. Kaylee, of Firefly fame: she's queen of Serenity's engine room and everyone knows it.
2. Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst (OK, technically three): the champions of the votes for women movement in the UK.
3. Sam Carter, of SG-1: she's smart and gorgeous and she's actually not defined by the men around her, which is more than can be said for most women on tv
4. Sarah Walters: who I have seen speak, and who is talented and funny and wrote Fingersmith, which I love
5. Ellie Bartlet, of the West Wing: because her relationship with her father makes me think of my relationship with my father, and I love watching her stand up to him
6. Helen, whom none of you know, who is my friend in real life and who is caring and considerate and not afraid of telling people that she's different, whether they accept it or not
7. Abby, of NCIS: I don't think I have words to describe how awesome Abby is in every way, from her clothes to her lab to her caffeine addiction
8. My research methods lecturer at uni, who managed to make research methods interesting, who co-led a massive piece of educational research, and who always offered me green tea when I went to her office
9. Lirael, from Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy: she's this girl who is nothing like she should be, but ends up saving the world, even though she'd really rather be in the library
10. Queen Elizabeth I: not that I really believe we should still have a monarchy, but she was in control, one of the earliest female monarchs, and not ashamed to say that her job was more important than a relationship.
Though it's honestly kind of sad that I found it much easier to come up with five awesome women who don't exist than I did to come up with five real women. I suspect that says something truly depressing about society. Or that I watch too much tv.
1. Kaylee, of Firefly fame: she's queen of Serenity's engine room and everyone knows it.
2. Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst (OK, technically three): the champions of the votes for women movement in the UK.
3. Sam Carter, of SG-1: she's smart and gorgeous and she's actually not defined by the men around her, which is more than can be said for most women on tv
4. Sarah Walters: who I have seen speak, and who is talented and funny and wrote Fingersmith, which I love
5. Ellie Bartlet, of the West Wing: because her relationship with her father makes me think of my relationship with my father, and I love watching her stand up to him
6. Helen, whom none of you know, who is my friend in real life and who is caring and considerate and not afraid of telling people that she's different, whether they accept it or not
7. Abby, of NCIS: I don't think I have words to describe how awesome Abby is in every way, from her clothes to her lab to her caffeine addiction
8. My research methods lecturer at uni, who managed to make research methods interesting, who co-led a massive piece of educational research, and who always offered me green tea when I went to her office
9. Lirael, from Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy: she's this girl who is nothing like she should be, but ends up saving the world, even though she'd really rather be in the library
10. Queen Elizabeth I: not that I really believe we should still have a monarchy, but she was in control, one of the earliest female monarchs, and not ashamed to say that her job was more important than a relationship.
Though it's honestly kind of sad that I found it much easier to come up with five awesome women who don't exist than I did to come up with five real women. I suspect that says something truly depressing about society. Or that I watch too much tv.