Who are your Heroes?

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The Bionic woman

Even performed minor fake surgery on myself so I could be like her

quentin crisp, for being brave in the face of united omnipresent hostility, and persevering longer than the nasty types he was surrounded by.

Auntblabby, this is one of my favorite interviews ever. His honesty, his self-knowledge.
The ugly 70s style of the tryhard interviewer.

My wife

Cheers, I'm glad you weren't offended

Aspie alert: I mean what I say and I say what I mean and I know I might misinterpret the situation when other "vent"

personally known heroes are easier than the other ones.

my cousin Y used to be my role model/hero since we were 2 and 3.
I realized a few years ago...
she is just as flawed as anyone else.

she comes off as an intelligent, kind, ethereal, perfect, serene being.
like the aura they try to convey of the elf Arwen (<<liv tyler acting as) in that movie.

even adults looked up to her, like my dad kept telling me to be like her. and elder people would defer to her opinion on any subject.

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one cousin -- who was born a psychopath i think, but extremely cute--
even SHE was in awe of her and respected her. and listened to her.
even though she respected and listened to nobody else ever in her entire life and could hoodwink anyone and do anything without limits.


i admired her so much that, when XH began calling and visiting,
i kept saying to go marry her instead as i felt he was too good for me.
even in tears.

i could spend ages praising her to him.
what a nutjob i must've come off as.

I don't know If i'd say i have any heroes. None come to mind, not that i'd be any good at expressing why either way. There are people who i admire. But I don't know if I'd say any of them really are a hero to me.

heroes are not just those who brave imminent physical danger [like in war combat] in the face of insuperable odds, but also those "different-thinking" types who invent stuff we find indispensable day-to-day. in light of what we're all doing here on WP, it would have to be the person who made this site, and another person [Tim Berners-Lee] who conceived of the web platform that made WP possible in the first place. Barack Obama is another hero of mine because he expended tremendous political capital to finally cease "kicking this can down the road" and find a political solution to our national shame of the uninsured. heroes not only save the day but they also, just as importantly, give us reason to hope for better. LBJ is a hero to me because it took guts to "lose the south" like he did in order to extend civil rights to POC. MLK is a hero for forcing the issue, along with countless other folks who carried out the important work. Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Ida B. Wells likewise pushed the Overton Window way to the left in their fight for women's suffrage. Phyllis Lyon and Franklin Kameny, along with the brave and angry patrons of the Stonewall Inn, likewise for the LGBT movement. all bona-fide HEROES.