Post by xenawp7706 on May 29, 2010 10:30:56 GMT -6
You've seen her on the subway. Stalking the streets late at night. She doesn't meet your eye, nor does she want to. Anyone who has ever lived in a city knows her, likely disregards her. But somehow you've come to need this skulking stranger, to know her as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
You could say this pint-sized death-pixie on wheels embodies the “female asskicker,” an archetype of the angry woman that runs through culture from ancient Greece through to Veronica Mars and Xena, the Warrior Princess. Civilization let men run the world, run the war, run the state. When world balance gets out of whack, we demand consequences. The Furies call to make them pay the price.
www.theglobeandmail.com/books/why-lisbeth-salander-is-best-kick-butt-avenger-ever/article1584306/
You could say this pint-sized death-pixie on wheels embodies the “female asskicker,” an archetype of the angry woman that runs through culture from ancient Greece through to Veronica Mars and Xena, the Warrior Princess. Civilization let men run the world, run the war, run the state. When world balance gets out of whack, we demand consequences. The Furies call to make them pay the price.
www.theglobeandmail.com/books/why-lisbeth-salander-is-best-kick-butt-avenger-ever/article1584306/
