pjmedia.com By Jamie K. Wilson
Rey doesn’t sweat. That’s the first sign something’s wrong.
Luke Skywalker staggered through deserts, lost his hand, and watched his mentors die. He began ignorant and untrained, a boy who had to be humbled before he could be strong. Every lesson cost him.
Rey, though, arrives on-screen born finished, like Athena from the skull of Zeus, armed, certain, and already right. She can fight, fly, and fix anything. No apprenticeship, no scars, no descent. She isn’t becoming a hero; she’s declaring herself one.
We’ve all met her, long before Disney mixed lightsabers with magic. She was the girl in school who treated advice as an insult, who corrected the teacher, who surrounded herself with friends chanting “You go, girl!” while everyone else waited for the lesson that never came. That is the girlboss story. It looks like empowerment, but it’s arrested development in high heels, the pretense of heroism without the pilgrimage.
What Real Journeys Do
Every real myth begins in ignorance. The hero or heroine starts small and incomplete, the raw material of greatness. The hero’s journey is a pilgrimage through humiliation. He fails, doubts, and bleeds. His victories are bought with obedience and loss. Luke has Yoda. Frodo has Gandalf. Achilles has Patroclus, and grief. Each man must kneel before he can stand.
The heroine’s journey is different, quieter but no less fierce. She endures and reconciles what pride divides. Psyche sorts the seeds and bows before Aphrodite. Dorothy walks the yellow brick road to learn that the power she sought was love, not magic. Both journeys rest on the same law: you start as an amateur. The world breaks you until you are fit to serve it. Strength isn’t native; it’s earned.
The girlboss skips all that. She begins perfect and ends confirmed in perfection. The world never humbles her; it only learns to apologize. She has no mentors, no weakness, no change. She’s the heroine of a culture that has forgotten what growth costs…
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