SilverFang you are right, where are today's Amelia Airharts, our Madame Curies, our hero female transport and even fighter pilots, someone's finally developed a sort of jetplane-pack that looks like an utter gas to fly with, where's the gutsy 98-lb gal making speed and distance records with it?
Even the "femme fatales" of the past were formidable. Not little twinks like Paris Hilton etc. Madonna's a bit imposing but nothing like the leading ladies of the past in movies etc who could turn the biggest toughest man's knees to jelly.
But then likewise I have to ask, where are our male heroes too? Space travel is history now and the big secret is, we will not go back to the moon. It was 10 years from when JFK said we ought to go, and we went. We had Great Scientists and explorers and heroes, and kids like me grew up watching Jacques Cousteau and wanting to be a deep-sea explorer like him.
We have of course small-time, everyday heroes. People who stop to help those in need, face down bullies, do the right thing. And we'll always have. But the "big" heroes of the past formed and molded a lot of us as kids, and made us perhaps a bit more likely to pitch in for the other guy, the weak, the wronged, etc than otherwise.
These days it's fashionable to point out how this or that heroic person has toenail fungus, burps after lunch, smells when they miss a shower, and once cussed at their 3rd grade teacher. Since irony is dead, when can be let cynicism die back a bit too?
