Feminazis rejoice!
Via Daily Caller:
Mattel celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by unveiling 17 new Barbies, all modeled after famous and successful women. The Shero Collection includes the likenesses of filmmaker Patty Jenkins, snowboarding champion Chloe Kim, artist Frida Kahlo, mathematician Katherine Johnson, aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and boxing champion Nicola Adams. Each doll comes with some educational information about the contributions to society by the woman who inspired it.
Although the company’s intentions must have been genuinely good, there’s just too much question about the statement they’re trying to make.
Where do we even begin?
First of all, why “shero”? Are the people at Mattel not aware that the word “hero” already has a feminine form? It’s “heroine”! Moreover, “hero” itself is very much gender neutral, and it’s perfectly fine to use it to refer to a woman. Inventing this new word is just another example of a desperate attempt by someone infected with third-wave feminism to point out sexism in everyday language. But the word ‘hero’ comes from the Latin “hērōs” and ancient Greek “hḗrōs”, and has nothing to do with the English ‘he’ pronoun.