Hi Risker/Anne and all,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:34:51 -0400 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
I admit I wasn't familiar with Maya Angelou before I learned of her death, but having read about her, I realised she was a truly heroic woman who suffered through a lot and still maintained a good spirit, and with some ingenuity, resourcefulness, persistence, and courage, became a superheroic person. She truly deserved the Wikipedia page.
I gave her as an example for a person who had a tough beginning and yet became a superhero, along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller , who was another very inspiring superheroine who was both deaf and blind from birth and yet became a famous intellectual, in this Google-Plus post titled "Buffy is not a nobody", which gives a download/streaming link to an excerpt from the famous (and very feminist/women-lib show) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gives the transcript from the wikipedia, and then gives my interpretation and conclusions:
* https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/dDJwvtcGE5N
* /r/buffy discussion - http://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/28ixp6/buffy_is_not_a_nobody_she_is_b...
Stay cool and smashing and become even more so!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish