Confabulous » Heroines http://www.confabulous.ca Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Who are the coolest women in popular culture? http://www.confabulous.ca Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Confabulous » Heroines http://www.confabulous.ca Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Who are the coolest women in popular culture? http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/03/coolest-women/ http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/03/coolest-women/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:53:56 +0000 Sabine http://confabulous.ca.s59391.gridserver.com/?p=514
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    • ]]>     margegundersonShannon the Movie Moxie has alerted me to Entertainment Weekly's list of the "20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture." Five female characters make the list, and five out of the 20 ain't bad--but it ain't great, either. On the chart are Sidney Bristow (Jennifer Garner's character on Alias), Foxy Brown (Pam Grier of the eponymous film), Nancy Drew, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, of course, of the Alien films). These are all superlative choices, and it's great to see these women up there with Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Jack Bauer and Dirty Harry. Is there a shortage of cool women in popular culture (and by "popular culture," the editors seem to mean "fictional characters primarily from film and television, plus Atticus Finch and Nancy Drew"), so much so that they only represent 25% of the people on EW's list? Or did the list fail to acknowledge some of the coolest women? I would have liked to have seen Marge Gunderson, Frances McDormand's character from Fargo on the list. I never tire of watching the visibly pregnant Marge solve crimes while keeping her cool. Marge Gunderson is arguably one of the great cinematic heroes of all time. And it goes without saying that Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff and Mary McDonnell's Boomer, Starbuck and Laura Roslyn from BSG deserve serious consideration (I am blind with bias here, I am sure). Who do you think deserves to be on the list of coolest heroes in pop culture?

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