（外文电子版资料）(5) Turn the Other Chick.docVIP

Back 0743488571_toc.htm | Next 0743488571___1.htmContents 0743488571_toc.htm Introduction Welcome to the fifth Chicks in Chainmail anthology. Allow me to offer you a comfortable chair, a bowl of popcorn, some corn chips and salsa, perhaps a few carrot sticks, and the healthful beverage of your choice before placing this book in your lap. No, its not Turn the Other Chick; not yet. Its a family album. Whose family? you ask. (Or perhaps you ask Whats this bushwah about a healthful beverage? Gimme a chocolate ice cream soda, straight up, before I get nasty. In which case, shame on you.) Maybe its yours. Its definitely mine. The members thereof are a small selection of fictitious heroines who arent represented in this book but who have had a whole lot of impact on changing how people think about women. Theyve put down the order pad, the bake sale brownies, and the Why His Problems Are Always Your Fault book and picked up the sword instead. Id say they deserve at least a passing nod, a smile, and even a few words of thanks for all that theyve done for us. (I wouldnt suggest a pat on the back, though. These chicks have got rather enthusiastic reflexes, they dont like surprises, and theyre probably toting something sharp.) Theres the woman herself, Xena, Warrior Princess. Shes gone now, as is her faithful sidekick Gabrielle who became a woman warrior in her own right before their story ended. Ah, and Eowyn and Arwen from the movie versions of The Lord of the Rings! Not 100% true to the book, but thats the nature of the cinematic critter. The purist in me might sulk, but my Inner Child is brandishing an elven blade and whooping Arwen finally gets to do something besides wait around for Aragorn to show up! Yes! Check out Princes Leia, who proved to a doubting world that just because you send out a wideband Damsel in Distress call you can still kick plenty of Dark Side butt when the opportunity presents itself. And can this be little Buffy Summers? My, how shes grown. Yes, yo