Meaning of supershero | Babel Free

Definitions

A female superhero (especially in the sense of a remarkable human).

Examples

“Sandee's polar opposite in every way is real life supershero supermodel Waris Dirie, a resplendent Somali native who has come out of the closet about a horrific secret from her childhood — a female circumcision performed on her at the age of six.”

“Add action figures to the block area to encourage superhero and supershero play.”

“It isn’t just that the entertainment media are feminizing the superhero. It’s that today’s superheroes and the more recently emerging supersheroes almost always and exclusively use violence to solve problems, and enjoy beating up the bad guy to boot.”

“She holds the position of Senior Professor of Kabba Lah Lah Yoga at the Jewlicious Festival, teaches classes on Jewish women supersheroes at retreats in Maui, and serves on the advisory board for Schmooze, the Sidney Krum Jewish Culture Conference.”

“I created an avatar, supershero, and alter-ego named Amrita Simla. Via my immigrant supershero, I retaliate against labels of exotic, submissive, or compliant women, stereotypes we encounter as South Asian Americans.”

“In 1992, VNS Matrix, a feminist artist collective based out of Adelaide, launched All New Gen, a new media artwork using the language and aesthetic of videogames to “disrupt the machismo world of video games with a female non binary centric computer game” where “an omnipresent supershero collaborates with her band of DNA Sluts to bring down Big Daddy Mainframe” (VNS Matrix 1992).”

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