children are invited to imagine themselves as a handsome princess or a brave farmboy, not as a technically able person
Maybe I read too much fantasy as a kid? Can do a dozen examples off the top of my head but . . . Hermione? People like Harry Potter right?
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like I say, it might be getting better, but Harry doesn't really get there through study, but through being 'the one'.
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also isn't Dr. Who a Time Lord because he was born as one?
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yeah, but it doesn't mean he didn't also work hard. Although, looking at him... he doesn't look like it
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I seem to recall a speech where Hermione flat out tells him that it's not book learning that counts, it's who you are inside.
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I agree though that Harry and Hermione are breakthrough characters in this regard, they're better geek rolemodels than, say, spock
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I hate myself for the second half of that tweet
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