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Are you a hero or do you need a hero?
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Don't believe everything you thinkThe liminal space Veteran
Just came across this story. You'd think we had moved beyond this kind of stuff by now. :shake:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/sexist-avengers-t-shirts-_n_3063942.html
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Sort of reminds me of how here in Canada, there are ads for Kinder Surprise that tell us they now have toys "just for girls!"
I remember as a kid eating a lot of Kinder Surprise and building the toys... none of them were particularly geared towards boys. In a strange attempt to be more gender inclusive, they have actually made the product more gendered.
"Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!"
It's interesting how Western culture is sexist in that way. In Mongol and Siberian Turkic cultures, there's a tradition of women warriors. Like in Native American culture, too. This is a concept completely lost on most Western cultures. And I'm not sure why. When (and why) did the concept of Amazons become a bad thing? In those eastern cultures, it's a good thing.
So I would wear both.
'I am enlightened' T shirt shortly.
No need for heroics or saviours . . .