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Heroes and villians...

Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007 ✭
edited April 2004 in General Discussion
Reading topics and hearing/reading/watching media about heroes.

As I was raised, a hero is someone who puts their life in IMMEDIATE jeopardy to save someone else.

There are occupations which, by their nature, make most of the people in them de facto heroes.

I am not happy with calling people "heroes" that aren't.

By the way, a woman who does an heroic act is called a "heroine". What ever happened to that?

Any comments/thoughts/deprecations ??

God Bless America and...
NEVER Forget WACO
NEVER Forget RUBY RIDGE
NEVER, EVER Forget 911
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    ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
    edited November -1
    I think people have shied away from feminizing certain nouns if only because they're ungainly to pronounce.

    And "heroine" is too easily confused with "heroin."

    Personally, I'm all for keeping any feminization of words that has an "x" as the suffix.[:p]
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    NickCWinterNickCWinter Member Posts: 2,927
    edited November -1
    Right, monkey, or an "ess" at the end of the word.
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    oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Agree with you Doug.. The word "Hero" once indicated someone with exceptional bravery. Now it refers to any person who is in the same country(or vicinity, loosely speaking))of ANY kind of dangerous action. There ain't no villians now, only poor downtrodden victims of our terrible republican society.


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    Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007 ✭
    edited November -1
    Those are my thoughts, also.

    God Bless America and...
    NEVER Forget WACO
    NEVER Forget RUBY RIDGE
    NEVER, EVER Forget 911
    Lock and load
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