Much applause for everything you've said about female characters and role models. I was 20 years old before I met a flesh-and-blood female role model (in the sense that this was the first woman I'd ever met who was doing the kind of thing with her life that I wanted to do with mine; most of the other women I knew up to that point--however much I admired many of them--were housewives and public school teachers). Up to that point, all of my role models were fictional--and I wonder if this may be the main reason I cling so hard to female characters even still.

I won't tell anyone that she shouldn't prefer stories about male characters, or simply "story" regardless of gender, but I would encourage every woman who does to at least give some consideration to why that is.

And clearly I need to watch TSCC!!! I hear nothing but good things, and the kind of good things that most push my narrative buttons. My problem is I never saw the Terminator films in the first place, so I was behind from the outset and I keep getting further behind every week. I think I need to make catching up a priority, though!