If you haven’t yet read the book The Fault is in Our Stars (or seen the movie) I guess I should begin by saying this blog will contain spoilers.
This story is about having cancer as a teen and dying from it. It’s also about a young woman, Hazel Grace, having cancer, a sense of humor, belief in her ability to have her life on her own terms, fall in love and claim her independence. It’s about a young man, Augustus Waters, falling in love, being insecure as a young man, yet secure enough to cry, and his belief in making life better for those around him for as long as he can—even after death.
It’s quite remarkable and…its aftermath is also remarkable. This book and its film and following have created some remarkable trends.
The author, John Green has coined a few phrases that deserve coinage in my every day usage. Among them, Green has proposed we use the phrase: “nerd fighter.” Nerd fighters fight to “increase awesome and decrease suck.”
We fight against suck….we fight for awesome. We fight using our brains, our hearts, our calculators and our trombones.
Feminism and Religion 