Who are your heroines/heroes?

Only The Cat Woman. I’m not a typically naive person who think heroes are people who dedicated themselves the best they could for others sake and expect nothing from the help they’re offering to people in need. I have no heroes(except the one I said) whether it’s real or fiction. Almost all heroes are hypocrites anyway.

I’m very curious about “the hero thing”.

Perhaps a society of individuals may go ahead and allow themselves exotic heroes, but a society that is more sensitive to tyrants and “leaders”, may reel it in a bit, and counterbalance.

I have no idea.

This is a thought-provoking question. I can’t say that I have any heroes, but there are people I admire who have done heroic acts in a time of crisis. Three that immediately come to mind are:
1.) Bill Cosby for telling Mike Tyson that they wouldn’t press charges for sexually assaulting his daughter if he obtained counselling.
2.) Pilot Chesley Sullenburger who landed a failing plane on the Hudson River with no loss of life.
3.) All of the people who attempted to help others, despite risking their lives, during the 9/11 attacks.

Why should both sexes be represented in any individuals hero list? Thats just silly.

Most people will probably only have a small number of heroes. Lets say I want to pick my top 4. If each hero is randomly male or female, the chances that there are 2 of each are 3/8…

This guy.

Hero-worship’s day has come and gone. Everyone is fallible. In other words, I have no heroes.

Somehow I kind of knew the hero thing would not be to popular around here, but I have a little godson and he and his older brother kind of require heroes. (Dear God are these little boys beautiful & great (4 & 6yo). I’m forced to rethink it. It’s hard work to discount others and select a few worthy heroes.

I like the Bill Cosby example ^. And @roundsquare I was just creating my own shortlist and realized that they were all men (and happened to also be all American). It just seemed kind of solipsistic – but in my case, completely unavoidable. That’s just the way it goes.

Me. Only one that can get me out of any situation.

Right now? This guy.

Ah…they are young, which makes a difference. Most children that age don’t understand the concept of hero…they choose people like a parent or teacher. If you can find someone in their field of interest (sports, for instance) who has done something heroic, they might be able to relate to it. And good for you for wanting to provide the boys with examples of good deeds.

@rangerr – lolololo-aaaaaah. That was great!

@Pied_Pfeffer – right now it’s all about a guy named Sam Hill, who does this extremely well. Still looking for “good deeds” guys.

@ipso Ahhh…. in that case I would suggest taking inspirational people even if they aren’t necessarily your heroes.

I guess I just have this natural reaction against people trying to create artificial equality among people. If you really believe in equality (which I do) then you shouldn’t need to adjust your list to have an equal number of men and women on it… given enough time, most people’s list will equal out (with enough variation).

This girl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Smith

“Tilly Smith is a British girl who, at age 10, was credited with saving nearly a hundred foreign tourists at Maikhao Beach (Thailand) by raising the alarm minutes before the arrival of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. She learned about tsunamis in a geography lesson two weeks before the tsunami from her teacher Andrew Kearney at Danes Hill School in Oxshott, Surrey. She recognised the receding shoreline and frothing bubbles on the surface of the sea and alerted her parents, who warned others on the beach and the staff at the hotel on Phuket where they were staying. The beach was evacuated before the tsunami reached shore, and was one of the few beaches on the island with no reported casualties.”

While many other kids are interested in celebrities, this girl is interested in science.