# Lady Dopers: Would you accept \ Girl as your superhero moniker? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733 "2015-08-24T15:38:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/21 "2015-08-24T19:30:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Six months ago, after being struck by tachyone-infused lightning bolt that hurled you into vat of radioactive yogurt, you gained the ability to transform into a six-foot-two, bronze-skinned beauty with a swimmer’s build, great clavicles, and **lowing** blonde hair. Her hair makes a noise like a cow? OK, I’m going to assume that was a typo, and the "f’ is missing. If I was a bronze/gold superheroine, I think I’d avoid “–girl” or “-lass”. I’m a guy, of course, but I would want to be “-boy” or “-lad”. If you’re gonna be bronze, you could go with **Colossus**. Like the Colossus of Rhodes. Or **Talos** , like the Bronze figure on Crete (which showed up as a sorta Colossus of Rhodes in **Jason and the Argonauts** ). OInly, being feminine, I might changed it to **Talosia** or something\* \*Talos wasn’t described as enormous in the ancient writers, or depicted as such in ancient art – he was normal-sized, although bronze. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/22 "2015-08-24T20:37:16Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I’d find a subtle way to point out to the people at CNN how much they don’t want to face a copyright suit from the makers of _Golden Girls._ > > But it beats Hippo Lass. [Not as inappropriate a name as you’d think…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyta) ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/23 "2015-08-24T20:41:33Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > I already AM a super heroine. 😃 > > However, if I’m to be publicly acknowledged, there is only one name I’d accept. She Who Must Be Obeyed. except when called be the setters I assume ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/24 "2015-08-24T21:19:45Z")
I’m a guy, but I don’t see any inherent problem with the use of Girl in a superhero’s name any more than Boy. Hell, in common parlance I still hear plenty of people my age refer to each other, same or opposite gender as boys and girls. Really, my larger complaint with Girl is that it’s just lame and overdone. There are certain heroes that get away with it since they’ve been around forever, obviously Superman is the OG, and others like Batman or Spider-man are iconic at this point. But I think it shows a lack of creativity to have a new hero with Man, Boy, Girl, Woman, whatever in the name unless perhaps there’s something particularly fitting in a particular case. I find things like Lad or Lass or variations equally lame because it’s basically the same idea, just with a lamer word. So, personally, my objection would just be that the name is dumb and, in my mind, it associates more with the classic show Golden Girls than with heroism and crime fight, not because it may be sexist. But, frankly, I don’t think I’d really care to correct it, though I’d be happy to offer my opinion if I were in that situation and asked. And as for a name, meh… let the people figure out. Someone like Batman essentially picked his name when he made his costume, but if she’s going to fight just as herself, eventually something cool will catch on. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/25 "2015-08-24T21:24:31Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#): > > I’m a guy, but I don’t see any inherent problem with the use of Girl in a superhero’s name any more than Boy. :: takes long drag on cigarette while staring at Blaster Master :: I’m gonna assume you’re of primarily European extraction. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/26 "2015-08-24T22:02:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Her hair makes a noise like a cow? > > OK, I’m going to assume that was a typo, and the "f’ is missing. I think lowing makes more sense than lowfing. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/27 "2015-08-25T00:27:31Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I didn’t include poll options for guys partly because I’m a dick, but mostly because I don’t think the issue would come up for a grown damn man. Probably. But I still call “shotgun” on saying, “Look! Up in the Sky…!” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/28 "2015-08-25T01:00:47Z")
There used to be a Triplicate Lass. She could seperate into three identical bodies, the better to fight the bad guys. One of those bodies got killed and she became Duo Damsel I think. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/29 "2015-08-25T01:13:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > There used to be a Triplicate Lass. She could seperate into three identical bodies, the better to fight the bad guys. One of those bodies got killed and she became Duo Damsel I think. And then another of those bodies got skragged by the Time Trapper when Llornu, Brainy, Imra, and Mon went after him to avenge Superboy’s death. It was all Brainy’s fault. Green-skinned bastich. Probably ruined her marriage too. Oh, how I loathe Brainiac 5. Didn’t realize that till just now. I will pay $676,543,876.56 to whoever takes a Burroughs-Libby continua buggy and punches him in the nads. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/30 "2015-08-25T01:34:05Z")
“Themis” might be good, too: [Themis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themis) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/31 "2015-08-25T02:04:41Z")
Ok, first, I’m gonna need to know what the hell I was smoking when I saved Cheney from the justice he so richly deserves. whatever it was, the buzz done worn off. My apologies to the world. Second, no to “girl”. Double no to “golden girl”. The first one is diminishing in oh so many ways, and the second sounds like I need my dentures before heading out to stop a bank robbery. They can call me “Superba”, as if the damn train hasn’t left the station. Time to find a PR firm. I think I’ll have a chat with Anderson about a big upcoming “reveal”… Now to go find Dick Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/32 "2015-08-25T02:15:29Z")
I have a Ph.D., gosh darnit! Any superhero name _I_ may bear has _got_ to have a Dr. at the start of it! Try again, Mr. **Skald-the-Rhymer** -putting-words-in-Anderson-Cooper’s-mouth! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/33 "2015-08-25T03:33:27Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Ok, first, I’m gonna need to know what the hell I was smoking when I saved Cheney from the justice he so richly deserves. whatever it was, the buzz done worn off. My apologies to the world. > > Second, no to “girl”. Double no to “golden girl”. The first one is diminishing in oh so many ways, and the second sounds like I need my dentures before heading out to stop a bank robbery. > > They can call me “Superba”, as if the damn train hasn’t left the station. Time to find a PR firm. I think I’ll have a chat with Anderson about a big upcoming “reveal”… > > Now to go find Dick Cheney. I have already explained the Cheney thing. You leapt in without knowing all the details. Happens to Spider-Man all the time. Next time you’ll know better. It’s saving the hippo that’s the real question. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/34 "2015-08-25T03:48:04Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > …following up by rescuing Dick Cheney from mercenaries hired to deliver him to a war crimes trial, and finally saving a poor innocent hippopotamus from poachers. What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/35 "2015-08-25T04:18:18Z")
I assume people who have to be distinguished as “Lady” Dopers, aren’t going to kick up a fuss at being addressed in terms suitable for children … > [@Yllaria](#): > > … what’s wrong with the Bronze Bitch? Or not. > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > :: takes long drag on cigarette while staring at Blaster Master :: > > I’m gonna assume you’re of primarily European extraction. and under 40, probably ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/36 "2015-08-25T04:42:42Z")
Number One: Lois & Clark’s “meet cute” aside, letting a journalist’s tragically unimaginative preliminary descriptor stick as one’s _nom de héroïsme_ is a bad idea. Trademarking oneself should be taken seriously. One-A: It can be easy to be led astray on this by animal attraction to a cute journalist of the opposite sex, even if said journalist isn’t really into you. Number Two: “Golden Girl” evokes Bea Arthur, so no. Number Three: “Golden Girl”? That’s actually really generic. Oh, I’m tan and have blonde hair! So? _Lots of women have that look and can described this way._ If you were a pale redhead would you want your working name to be “Creamy Flame-Hair”? Something like “Golden Opal” would at least be unique. Number Four: I can live with a “Girl” _nickname,_ but my official working alias would probably be something else, maybe even something that sounds like a regular name. You know, a cool action hero name like Dawn Steel had. Number Five: I’ve had six months to come up with a name, and I’m not going to replace whatever I call myself in my head with some boring thing CNN came up with. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/37 "2015-08-25T04:49:47Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > [ul][li]God damn it, are there no heroines left with reasonable-sized boobs?[/li][/ul] Almost all superheroines still have reasonably proportioned boobs. (Maybe not Elisa Cameron. I said _almost_ all.) It’s just that most superhero-drawing artists don’t know what a reasonable breast size and shape is, living as they do in the artist sweatshops of Mars, where there really aren’t very many Earth women to reference. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/38 "2015-08-25T13:10:17Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Almost all superheroines still have reasonably proportioned boobs. (Maybe not Elisa Cameron. I said _almost_ all.) It’s just that most superhero-drawing artists don’t know what a reasonable breast size and shape is, living as they do in the artist sweatshops of Mars, where there really aren’t very many Earth women to reference. And where the gravity is only 38% that of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/39 "2015-08-25T14:39:11Z")
I knew that “Golden Girl” sounded vaguely familiar and then I [remembered](http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?goldengirlindex) [this](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-1984-Galoob-GOLDEN-GIRL-Princess-Guardian-of-Gemstones-Action-Figure-Doll-). So I’m going to say “no” to that name. I also object to becoming golden haired and bronze skinned in my alternate form - do my eyes turn blue too? but that’s a different discussion. But to the discussion at hand, I could agree to a “Girl” nickname. Not that one, but if someone came up with a really good one, then maybe. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/40 "2015-08-25T15:01:24Z")
> [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](#): > > I have a Ph.D., gosh darnit! Any superhero name _I_ may bear has _got_ to have a Dr. at the start of it! Try again, Mr. **Skald-the-Rhymer** -putting-words-in-Anderson-Cooper’s-mouth! [DrDeth](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) is already taken. So that’s right out. Depending on how “dark” you want to play it maybe: Dr. Demonis, Dr. DragonFire, Dr. Destructo? If you want to be a pure white-hat then we have these: Recalling the silly sitcom [Captain Nice - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nice) you could be Dr. Decent or Dr. Defendo/Defender or Dr. Diamond [a girl-in-distress’s best friend] 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733.md?page=3)