Liz Horton
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:08 pm
What is a girl?
Everyone seems to have their own idea. A woman should be powerful. A woman should be feminine. A woman should... it all varies for girls depending on what kind of Mom they have. Society wants to mold them into whatever people have in mind. Talk THIS way. Dress THIS way. Some choose to give in, and so sometimes have their lives ruined, or, if they handle it right, actually stay pure and enjoy themselves. Some become fiery anti-media girls, screaming that our culture is all lies and all women should unceasingly strive in every shirt and pair of pants for a variously defined thing called modesty. We males, solemnly Christened "guys" by the girls, can't claim to understand this, but at least we can claim to be confused by it.
Society seems to continually trying to reinvent the female identity. (Just what's wrong with girls that movies and new political ideas keep coming forth do do this, I have no idea.) Sometimes the results are awful. However....
In children's media, we see the girls being given a ferocious makeover. We've forgotten the days Princess Leia representing her gender with kick-butting was an original breath of fresh air. Grabbing and obvious examples are the reinventing of the fairytale girl. Disney just keeps making wilder and wilder girls, until we see Rapunzel, a whooping blonde who femininely wears pink and sings yet slams her loving prince over the head. Pixar has its first female protagonist, causing no small stir, and sure enough she a fairytale-princess-weapons-expert. And, this year, we saw TWO reincarnations of Snow White, both taking fairy land's most gentle princess and turning her into a warrior.
And THAT is what being a person can be. Warrior is just a word for a do-er. You can be a warrior in real battle, or a warrior for peace feeding the hungry. And isn't a Christian a soldier for Christ? It doesn't matter there if you're a boy or girl, its our calling as humans.
And Odyssey...
There's the overly feminine Jimmy-loving Jessie Morrales. There's representations of girls who work hard to be sweet, kind, and feminine, like the wonderful Mandy.
And then there's girls like Emily, Sarah Pratchett... and Liz, who came before them both, who was around when people were still talking about Princess Leia. Liz Horton is feisty. She is who she wants to be. And she likes it. She is the prelude to characters like the English daredevil Sue and the aforesaid Sarah.
It sometimes gets on people's nerves, how outspoken she is, as with Emily. But Liz only changes what she perceives as faults. She knows who she is. She stays who she is. I have long had a soft spot for Liz, and always will. But... what do YOU think?
Hi all, it's Jeremiah, better known to most of you as Pound Foolish. I don't blame you if you've skipped down to this part of my almost TS worthily long post. I have finally done it: I've actually made a subject about a character in the character area. So, what are YOUR thoughts on Liz?
Everyone seems to have their own idea. A woman should be powerful. A woman should be feminine. A woman should... it all varies for girls depending on what kind of Mom they have. Society wants to mold them into whatever people have in mind. Talk THIS way. Dress THIS way. Some choose to give in, and so sometimes have their lives ruined, or, if they handle it right, actually stay pure and enjoy themselves. Some become fiery anti-media girls, screaming that our culture is all lies and all women should unceasingly strive in every shirt and pair of pants for a variously defined thing called modesty. We males, solemnly Christened "guys" by the girls, can't claim to understand this, but at least we can claim to be confused by it.
Society seems to continually trying to reinvent the female identity. (Just what's wrong with girls that movies and new political ideas keep coming forth do do this, I have no idea.) Sometimes the results are awful. However....
In children's media, we see the girls being given a ferocious makeover. We've forgotten the days Princess Leia representing her gender with kick-butting was an original breath of fresh air. Grabbing and obvious examples are the reinventing of the fairytale girl. Disney just keeps making wilder and wilder girls, until we see Rapunzel, a whooping blonde who femininely wears pink and sings yet slams her loving prince over the head. Pixar has its first female protagonist, causing no small stir, and sure enough she a fairytale-princess-weapons-expert. And, this year, we saw TWO reincarnations of Snow White, both taking fairy land's most gentle princess and turning her into a warrior.
And THAT is what being a person can be. Warrior is just a word for a do-er. You can be a warrior in real battle, or a warrior for peace feeding the hungry. And isn't a Christian a soldier for Christ? It doesn't matter there if you're a boy or girl, its our calling as humans.
And Odyssey...
There's the overly feminine Jimmy-loving Jessie Morrales. There's representations of girls who work hard to be sweet, kind, and feminine, like the wonderful Mandy.
And then there's girls like Emily, Sarah Pratchett... and Liz, who came before them both, who was around when people were still talking about Princess Leia. Liz Horton is feisty. She is who she wants to be. And she likes it. She is the prelude to characters like the English daredevil Sue and the aforesaid Sarah.
It sometimes gets on people's nerves, how outspoken she is, as with Emily. But Liz only changes what she perceives as faults. She knows who she is. She stays who she is. I have long had a soft spot for Liz, and always will. But... what do YOU think?
Hi all, it's Jeremiah, better known to most of you as Pound Foolish. I don't blame you if you've skipped down to this part of my almost TS worthily long post. I have finally done it: I've actually made a subject about a character in the character area. So, what are YOUR thoughts on Liz?