lol, ignoring the fact that this is a crap joke thread, we've been running this activity with our girl guide sections as part of the international day of the girl stuff.
The 9yos all pick slebs. Some authors.
By 12-14, they all pick family members or their own youth leaders (gratifying, and leads one to suspect they might be more canny than you realise).
No need to fret though, we went though a list of the adult recommendations, which included Malala, Ms Rice, Hillary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher (bahahaha) Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Deepa Mehta, Mother Teresa, a bazillion writers, local female community leaders, and a big discussion of what constitutes inspirational, including both individual and national/ international contexts.
Oddly, it didn't occur to anyone present to judge the women under discussion for their hair choices, although had it come up, we would undoubtedly covered prejudice and social expectations, and the 'no choices are made in a vacuum' theory. We did ponder why they had chosen the women they selected though, and asked them if they thought their choices were influenced by 'what women are supposed to be like' - caring, nurturing, looking after children - once they had escaped from the earlier TV controlled 'pretty, sexy, famous' trope.
My hair is grey. I have one girl in one of the groups with pink hair (this week. Sometimes it's purple, or blue, or green).
And I am still lolling about the coke. Bahahaha ha.