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"Hero" is not gendered in modern colloquial English, at least according to my intuition.

• codefined 9y ago
  Are you sure it isn't? "Heroine" exists as a term specifically for a female hero.
  • spraak 9y ago
    I think in colloquial English, you'd hardly find use of 'heroine', and that any gender is called an hero.
    • notgood 9y ago
      Indeed, http://grammarist.com/usage/heroin-heroine/ http://grammarist.com/usage/heroin-heroine/
• indigochill 9y ago
  I still hear heroine in colloquial usage occasionally. The implication (as with actors and actresses) that hero is the masculine form and heroine is the feminine form even though the masculine form can work perfectly fine for both (for both actors and heroes).
• bsder 9y ago
  https://www.wired.com/2012/03/katniss-everdeen-hollywood-heroines/ https://www.wired.com/2012/03/katniss-everdeen-hollywood-her... https://www.yahoo.com/news/wonder-woman-heroine-post-truth-161000646.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/wonder-woman-heroine-post-truth-1... Can go on ...