Since the race started, Mrs. Clinton has cycled through several political personas: the battle-tested White House veteran, the fighter, the girl — her word — tougher than any boy.
There are lots of awesome fighter fiction girls out there (most recently Tris in Veronica Roth's Divergent) but the one strong female character I'd like to end with doesn't have to battle her way through monsters, or demons with magic and weapons; she has to battle with something much more real and common and threatening: cancer.
The boys became fighters, the girls sex slaves.
"Yeah, I got a girl fighter, Christine Swanson," says Dundee.
Building a career on such girl fighter novelty stunts as a role on a reality TV show and a turn on "American Gladiators," Carano has emerged as a defining figure at a defining moment for her sport, cast as part suffragette, part test case, part marketing ploy and part crossover star.
Hit-Girl (from Kick-Ass) She's an 11-year-old superhero crime-fighter with a Girl Scout demeanour.
One of the aspirant fighters is a girl, trying to punch her way out of an unhappy home life: she's good enough to make it in the ring, but not having a penis she ends up out of contention, strutting across the stage in a gold bikini, displaying the numbers of rounds in a men's fight.
Abouzeid profiles a Sufi poet who took up arms, a privileged man who documented protests and later the torture he suffered in jails, an Islamist who smuggled in foreign fighters, and a girl who assumed adult responsibilities when her family became exiles.
Some commentators wondered whether the shooting would galvanize public opinion against the Taliban in the same way as a video that aired in 2009, showing a Taliban fighter flogging a teenage girl in Swat, had primed public opinion for a large military offensive against the militants that summer.
Some parts of the show, notably a section entitled "Comics and Animation," which features images of sexy girls as fighter planes by the ubiquitous Takashi Murakami, fail in an instructive way.
