Despite the fact that humankind is very much on the road to achieving gender quality, in many areas of life, women are still treated as second class citizens.
However, ladies are a lot more revered by men than you may think, and when this Twitter user asked men if they have any female heroes, she was inundated with replies.
"Do men have women heroes?" asked a woman named Jess in a tweet that has since been liked over 106,000 times and retweeted 24,000+ times.
One of the most popular replies to the tweet was from a man who mentioned a lesser-known female hero, Dr. Catherine Hamlin.
He wrote: "Dr. Catherine Hamlin who founded a Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, providing free obstetric fistula repair surgery to women suffering from childbirth injuries. Without this, they're outcast from society because it causes incontinence. She passed away earlier this year."
Meanwhile, a second referred to a woman ho made waves in STEM long before the fairer sex was encouraged to join its professions to even out the gender divide.
He wrote: "Margaret Hamilton, @MIT researcher who developed on-board flight software for @NASA's Apollo program, founder of two software companies, recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and co-inventor of the term 'software engineering'."
This third response puts to bed the misconception that young boys might of women being unable to fight.
"The 588th night bomber regiment is another great example," this male Twitter user wrote. "A soviet all female bomber regiment. The Germans were terrified by them and dubbed them 'The Night Witches' due to their stealth tactics, they would turn their engines off and glide in as they attacked."
A fourth wrote: "All AA artillerymen worship Hedy Lamarr, patron saint of the Proximity Fuse."
However, for some men, their female superheroes were a lot closer to home, and one man used the thread as an opportunity to praise his wife, who is still killing it despite being 23 weeks pregnant.
"My wife! Today she finished a 26 hour call as NICU upper level, walked the dog after, and then did a research presentation. All while being 23 weeks pregnant. #boss"
Historically, men have been reluctant to speak up about having female heroes, and the issue was touched upon by Emma Watson in an interview with Entertainment Weekly when she said they've been conditioned to admire male superheroes.
"It's something that they are not used to and they don't like that. Anything that deviates from the norm is difficult to accept. I think if you've been used to watching characters that look like, sound like, think like you and then you see someone up on the screen and you go, 'Well, that's a girl, she doesn't look like me. I want it to look like me so that I can project myself onto the character,'" Watson said.
Girls, on the other hand, aren't threatened so easily, and therefore have an easier time relating to the characters in the media they are consuming regardless of their gender identity.
