# Lady Dopers: Would you accept \<Blank\> Girl as your superhero moniker?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/61 "2015-08-28T15:43:23Z")

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Has anyone suggested _\_\_\_\_\_ Chick_ or\* \_\_\_\_\_ Babe\*?

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**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/62 "2015-08-28T18:02:13Z")

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It is futile trying to change the minds of the entertainment press, which are probably the people who will come up with the silly nickname. I’d just go the She-Hulk route and not bother to maintain a secret identity. Any supervillain worth his salt would be able to figure out who to kidnap to irk me whether I had an alias or not, and I’d enjoy watching people squirm at the prospect of facing the super-powered-punchy form of me if I rounded on them for harassing women on the train.

I would totally talk to Anderson Cooper. I don’t really follow news people, but I distinctly remember him acting like a real human being, even when reporting terrible things on location. Some of the others, not so much.

I firmly maintain that the only reason I grabbed Dick Cheney was that if the mercenaries flew him to court, he’d be safely ensconced inside a warm airplane, with things like meal service and cabin crew. Not on my watch, bub. You get flown to the Hague in raw atmospheric conditions, thanks. Dangled by the coat collar.

[ETA: Someone else at CNN came up with the nickname, clearly. Anderson would do better. He’s a noted pop culture junkie and comics geek.]

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**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/63 "2015-08-28T19:15:11Z")

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Whatever else the name may bring to mind, Golden Girl as a superheroine name is [taken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Girl). So is [Golden Boy](http://wildcards.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Boy)… and the character was an adult male.

Honestly, though, not to slight Bea Arthur and company, but the first thing I thought of was [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldengirl).

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-dopers-would-you-accept-blank-girl-as-your-superhero-moniker/728733/64 "2015-08-29T00:33:17Z")

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> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> Honestly, though, not to slight Bea Arthur and company, but the first thing I thought of was [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldengirl).

I think Bea Arthur could handle being upstaged by Leslie Caron.  
Once.

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