The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
I can think of only two movies with women killers we__e meant to sympathize with, and both because they__ been sexually assaulted__helma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don__ imagine anyone would call the women in these films heroes. The popular comic book mercenary Red Sonja is, perhaps, a proper hero, but is, once again, motivated by a sexual assault. Male heroes are heroic because of what__ been done to women in their lives, often__he dead child, the dead wife. Women heroes are also heroic for what__ been done to women__ to them.We build our heroes, too often, on terrible things done to women, instead of creating, simply, heroes who do things, who persevere in the face of overwhelming odds because it__ the right thing to do.
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I can think of only two movies with women killers we__e meant to sympathize with, and both because they__ been sexually assaulted__helma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don__ imagine anyone would call the women in these films heroes. The popular comic book mercenary Red Sonja is, perhaps, a proper hero, but is, once again, motivated by a sexual assault. Male heroes are heroic because of what__ been done to women in their lives, often__he dead child, the dead wife. Women heroes are also heroic for what__ been done to women__ to them.We build our heroes, too often, on terrible things done to women, instead of creating, simply, heroes who do things, who persevere in the face of overwhelming odds because it__ the right thing to do.
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