"Dangerous" Heroines

Again, thanks to my wonderful friend Sarah, I have a couple of good articles to post.

First read this.

And then this.

And maybe then this.

Or just read this quote that sums up both the story and my reaction:

A piece in the Denver Post [suggests that] it might be dangerous to provide young girls with misleading images of women in action movies who are too capable of defending themselves physically. Because, you see, men as a rule are apparently perfectly capable of the physical feats performed by men in action movies. [Hold for massive eye-roll.]