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Superwoman
Who is your ‘superwoman’?
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How do you define a ‘superwoman’?
Who is a superwoman, according to you?
Who is the one woman you know who seems to be all things, to all people?
Is there a superwoman in books, or movies, who seems relatable to you, and whom you admire?
“So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn’t there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don’t know what to do, and you don’t know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there’s sort of the expectation that you’re super-strong superwoman but you’re just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.” ~ Kathleen Hanna
One of the reasons American actor Reese Witherspoon began her own line of movies and production was because she was fed up with scripts written by men, where women were only decoration.
She says in a speech, that the line ‘What do we do now?’ is always given to a helpless looking woman who depends on the ‘superior’ intelligence of men. The woman looks helplessly…
