ETA: Oh, as a note, Linda Hamilton has seen SCC or at least a bit of it and said it and Lena were excellent. She has totally graciously passed on the mantle to Lena and said that Sarah Connor is Lena's now. I thought that was classy. I also, as a total Terminator fan since the 80s, was HIGHLY dubious, and found myself, to my great surprise, seeing about 40 seconds of it, pointing to Lena and declaring, "That's Sarah Connor." She just NAILED the manner and the character, I felt. /ETA
And I see what you're saying. The type I'm describing is the type that looks like me. That is, perhaps not surprisingly, the type that I'm attracted to (which I think indicates a greater love for myself than I sometimes am aware) as well as the type I aspire to be like.
Having made that connection between my "type" and my own appearance is one of the things that helped me understand why it is important to have role models who look like oneself--role models for intelligence, for strength, for decisiveness, for raw power, for perseverence, for leadership, etc.--and not just role models who look like someone else, either by race, gender, appearance, etc.
I did see Empress Hoshi Sato in my head...but that moment of Total Awesome (totally awesome evil, of course...*sigh*) was largely negated by the whole Captain's Woman thing that was so annoying from the other Mirror universe stuff.
I agree that baby steps are better than no steps, but also that there need to be more than baby steps and that folks who can need to be more and more prodded to make larger and larger steps. I have no answers. There are just so FEW and that is so wrong (like you don't know that! duh!).
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And I see what you're saying. The type I'm describing is the type that looks like me. That is, perhaps not surprisingly, the type that I'm attracted to (which I think indicates a greater love for myself than I sometimes am aware) as well as the type I aspire to be like.
Having made that connection between my "type" and my own appearance is one of the things that helped me understand why it is important to have role models who look like oneself--role models for intelligence, for strength, for decisiveness, for raw power, for perseverence, for leadership, etc.--and not just role models who look like someone else, either by race, gender, appearance, etc.
I did see Empress Hoshi Sato in my head...but that moment of Total Awesome (totally awesome evil, of course...*sigh*) was largely negated by the whole Captain's Woman thing that was so annoying from the other Mirror universe stuff.
I agree that baby steps are better than no steps, but also that there need to be more than baby steps and that folks who can need to be more and more prodded to make larger and larger steps. I have no answers. There are just so FEW and that is so wrong (like you don't know that! duh!).