The teen girl who’s flown

around the world in her light plane and is soon reaching her final destination in Belgium is another positive sign of changing limits for young women. This, in total contrast to the bimbo party girls vaping it up on the holiday plane getaway a couple of weeks ago..

It was often pointed out to William Golding that his characters in Lord of Flies could/might have been female with much the same results and I think there’s some truth in that. A good debate topic for sure.

Women and girls can behave very badly, as Shakespeare noted in King Lear and Macbeth, and there are even women desperate enough to kill their new offspring or young families out there (c.f. the news).

But women and girls are, more predictably often than not, capable of incredible, sacrificing, and pro-society/pro-others work. Think of Jane Goodall and Greta Thunberg, for instance. And, quite often, the people leading the charge on the charity front since the 19th century have been women. (I suspect the number of women on the front lines of the dangerous, exhausting Covid hospital front have been women by something like 8 to 1.)

I have long talked about the dualism of human nature and man, which definitely includes women. Which makes me and many others appreciate even more those inspiring and heroic girls and women from the West and East who have been breaking through glass ceilings and smashing the former limits and limitations that have unfairly hindered women much too long in herstory/history. This is their time and long overdue on the road to lasting, meaningful change and equality.