To be completely honest, I think Leland really missed the target here. I also think that he just tried to add pages for adding page's sake because the way he presents his "findings" in this chapter is as though he did so at gun point. I don't really buy there being a lack of woman in "hip" or whatever you define "hip" as. Either way you look at it, there are an astounding amount of woman in not only America's past, but in the world's past as well. I will give Leland this though, there are no where near the amount of heroic woman figures today then there were ten or even twenty years ago. Lady gaga? Are you kidding me? Wow, since we are on the subject of woman who don't matter, let's just throw my crazy aunt Olga up there on the list while we are at it.
Hip isn't sexist as much as it is racist. Hip goes through a great deal to exclude those of certain race while at the same time inviting those of different races to be the new "in crowd." Woman have been subject to this day in and day out.
-Rosa Parks
-Anne Frank
-Amelia Earhart
Just to name a few. These woman not only stood up for their beliefs and what they thought was right, they also gave their all to excel beyond men in their field of expertise.
Like I said, I find it very difficult to give respect to any modern day woman. Most if not all are Hollywood suck ups doing everything they do outside of movie making for publicity, so for anyone to say "J Lo is deep." Doesn't even know what they are talking about it. In the sciences, I can't name one woman that has made a breakthrough, or in any literature other than J.K. Rowling, and the only reason she used her initials is because they thought that if she put her name, people would know she is a girl and not buy her books. sad.
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