OK, so slightly controversial, but my inspirational woman for today’s post is a fictional character which seems like a bit of a cop out, but I have so many friends who look up to her as a role model for life so I think we can count her, and with the recent reboot of the 90’s favourite, it seems like now is the perfect time.
Veronica Mars, or basically the 90’s version of Nancy Drew, was something I didn’t cotton on to until I was well past my teen years of when I should have been drawn to this series. I can’t tell you what it is about this show or its characters that draws myself and so many others in, all I can tell you is that it is addictive.
Veronica herself is a curious, headstrong and independent high school girl in America, who spends her life solving mysteries and fighting crime. She is a loner for the most part, but eventually finds herself a sort of clique of odd individuals. The kind of misfits that makes for great drama. All of the main facets of Veronica’s character are all the things I have aspire to all my life. To be a witty, headstrong, smart, brave woman, who isn’t afraid of challenging those who tell her she can’t do something or running headfirst into a challenge. She looks for the good in everyone, but at the same time is smart enough (most of the time) to know when she is being hoodwinked. Her sass and sarcasm, and her lack of conformity with whatever everyone tells her to be is what makes her an ideal role model for any teenage girl. She is the person we should all want to be, or who we want our kids to be, or our sisters, or any female in our life.
Strong, able to defend herself, never weak when she comes head to head with dangerous men, but also supported by a fantastic network of loving characters.
Again, it might sound weird putting a fictional character up on such a high pedestal, but I think the good that a character like this does can often be more than a real person. When asked why she agreed to a reboot of the show, Kristen Bell (who is entirely deserving of her own inspirational woman post – watch this space) replied that she wanted her daughters to have a real role model, and currently there was a gap for that. I entirely agree. I can only hope that when I have kids, there is a bad-ass as great as Veronica Mars on the screens for my daughter to idolise and learn from.
If you haven’t ever watched it, I highly recommend it, but I will caveat it and say that the original series is much better than the reboot, but what reboot is ever as good?
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