Some of the most stimulating conversations occur at the crack of dawn, amid long yawns and highway lights on the way to work. This particular morning, we were discussing something ostensibly trivial and yet, it has made me consider. Does being a new feminist mean needing new role models? Nearly every girl has grown up on the fantasy stories perpetuated by relatives giving books at Christmas and by the ever popular Disney films. We were raised on tales of love, opulence, magic and eternity- and most importantly to some people, the idea that a woman desperately needs to be rescued. By no means is this blog the first to address this issue. I remember vividly and episode of Sex and the City where Carrie debated the very same conundrum in her column. She, unlike her girlfriend, Charlotte, felt that the idea of a woman needing to be saved by a man was repugnant. She advocated the premise that in a modern day society, women would never wait around for a man. They would get jobs, get a right-h
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