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There is little that is more engaging than a skimpily clad, laser rifle toting heroine, ploughing her way through green alien blood and giant 12 eyed monsters,  yet the icon of the powerful female is an ancient theme. Modern popular culture and Science fiction seems to be increasingly obsessed with the female and its role as initiator and liberator, a mantle that was accepted largely in the ancient worlds of mythos and ritual. 

In almost all ancient systems of belief the female aspect of the human psyche was worshipped as a gateway to wisdom and ecstasy and it is for this reason that our modern myths are saturated with these themes. It is this intrinsic need of the human mind to connect with the  creative and nourishing forces  of the great feminine energy  that we  see increasingly  women in roles of goddess, prophet and savior as part of our  popular culture. We see this reflected in 60s classics such as  Jane Fonda in Barbarella and later Carrie Fisher as Princess Lea in Star Wars. More recently we have seen  Carrie Ann Moss in the Matrix , Natlie Portman in the Star Wars  prequel and of course who could resist the temptation of giant shiny robots and the gorgeous  Megan Fox in Transformers.

The writers of Star Trek found out soon enough that nothing quite compliments the  world of Tachyon fields and quantum fluctuations more than a beautiful  Cyborg  or Vulcan. No one  explains how to warp the space-time continuum quite like Seven of Nine. In Fact the Cyborg Babe is a theme revisited often by the science fiction society, as in Battlestar Galactica where a whole of  Lethal  Cyborg  Vixens  set out to conquer mankind.

This aesthetic has filtered down not only through film and fiction but also through to fashion and design as we see in the fashion of Dior, Jean Paul Gautier and Alexander Mcqueen. As well as influencing many fashion subcultures such as cyberpunk , gothic, fetish and industrial.

Here is a classcic T-shirt  parody for all you Toaster lovers out there, maybe we’ll see a few gorgeous cylons on springleap.com soon.

Lets hope our culture continues to glorify the great epitaph of the transcendental and supernatural women.