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katysails wrote:




Maybe not earthshakingly pretty, but certainly not ugly...so she
looks like a normal human being...why should that make anyone sick?


She was a free spirit. I admire her and wonder what she could have
become or how she might have chnaged the world if she had not been
lost.

Cheers


Bwahahahhahahahaha. She was an early example of the art of celebrity
making. Celebrated as the first female to fly across the Atlantic, she
was dismayed to discover that the actual pilots were completely
ignored by the media, she herself was merely a passenger on the plane.
Nonetheless, she continued on her career path, hubris contributing to
her not so untimely disappearance. She wasn't a particularily good
flyer, not even a good female flyer, merely a well publicized one.

http://www.ameliaearhart.com/

As you can see, it's still a money making enterprise.

John Cairns


I'm sure it is. Do you really think she accomplished nothing?

Cheers



Depends on your take on the importance of heroic figures in modern
society. For the most part, Earhart merely became the first woman to
accomplish this or that aviation milestone.

http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/achievements.html

As you might notice from the list, only four of the milestones were
actual firsts, three of these were dubious achievements, the first
person to fly solo between Mexico City and Newark, for example. I think
even she would admit that her celebrity was much greater than her talent
as an aviator. I firmly believe that if she had not disappeared in such
a spectacular fashion she would have been largely forgotten by now. At
the time she was a superstar, the US government spent four million in
1937 searching for her. Her greatest accomplishment was becoming a
semi-mythical figure.


Well there's nothing like death to make a saint. But, was she not an role
model for women?

Cheers



I think I said as much. But was she an important role model for women?
Probably not, not even big enough to make a Time Magazine list of the
most important figures of the 20th century. I would think a contemporary
of hers, Eleanor Roosevelt, was a much more prominent role model. You
have to remember that there were quite a few "famous" female aviators at
the time, though none as celebrated as Earhart.

Was she not an inspiration for Eleanor Roosevelt too?

Cheers


Hah, you got me there. I'm sure if you google Eleanor and Amelia you might
find a reference to Eleanor calling her an inspriration or something along
those lines, but do I honestly think that this was what ER really thought?
No. I think if you had asked ER for her take on the ten most influential
women of her time, AE would not be on that list.

John Cairns