Why Can't the Girl Be The Hero?Recently I went to see a new movie titled Alaska, a movie about two kids who have an amazing cross-country trek to rescue their father. It wasn't a great movie. It did feature some particularly wonderful footage of Alaska wilderness (although I believe most was really filmed in Canada), and Charlton Heston played an evil man (which I consider type-casting since we in the gay community certainly know what an evil bigot-monger he is). So why does this rate a rant? The primary angst-engine in the movie is that the older sibling, the brother, hates being in Alaska, won't have a thing to do with the wilderness, just sits in his room brooding and wishing he was back in Chicago watching a Cubs game (now there's a believable premise in today's time, isn't there?). The younger sister loves the outdoors. She's a good sea kayaker, she is a capable, resourceful, enterprising young woman. So what happens? What always happens in these situations. The capable, wonderful female ends up the goat... the one incapable of keeping up, of saying "let's stop, I can't go on anymore!" And the brother? Well, maybe he read how to use rope climbing tackle on the back of one of his Cubs trading cards. Whatever. But he is the hero, he is the capable wonderful child who saves them all, while the girl does what girls (of whatever age) always do in the media -- sits by and gazes in admiration at the capable man. Gag. C'mon Hollywood. Don't you think little boys have more than their share of heroes already? Don't you think once, just once, you could let the little girl save the day? Too much to ask?
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