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THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: Why does it still seem the norm in Western culture, when it comes to the use of heroes in literature and film, that the traditional role of men as the hero and the role of women as the victim still is used and supported by the audiences?  Is there any way to break this mold in a way that will lead to more diversity in the types of heroes?

In Western culture the population is not used to change within almost every aspect of their culture, in cluding literature and film. The use of heroes, with the man the hero and the women the victim, is a key to the accepance of the film from the gerneral public. Throughout history men have been the "stong and brave" humans on the planet. Woman have been the meek and week humans on the planet. By useing the taditional roles that men and woman play in literature and film, people are already able to relate to the story rather then thinking about the changes that the authors have put into text or action. As times are changing, and the education of woman is increacing over that of men, the stariotypes might be lifted off the backs of woman turing the hero of a female into reality. This would make the population accept the fact of a woman figure being the hero. It might not be a muscular, buff, and tall hero, but she would be a stong, darning, and challengeing one. The public bases their oppinons of reality and the past, and by changeing reality they would except the new consept.