Three women you admire, GO!
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in order of their awesomeness
My grandmother - Because she basically raised me when I was a child, she also taught me the skills I need.
Audrey Hepburn - The greatest actress to ever live and to ever have existed in my lifetime, bar none as well as an amazing person.
blank - deliberate for personal reasons.
My grandmother - Because she basically raised me when I was a child, she also taught me the skills I need.
Audrey Hepburn - The greatest actress to ever live and to ever have existed in my lifetime, bar none as well as an amazing person.
blank - deliberate for personal reasons.
I stand Corrected, all I can think about when people mention Joan of Arc is the scene from the SimpsonsArontala said:
I'm giving another 15, to compensate for Zalk's sexist ignorance.
(Not to pick on you, but dude - that's just sad)
Julie Mehretu
Kazuyo Sejima
Zaha Hadid
Mary Oliver
Gertrude Stein
Voltarine de Cleyre
Mad C
Faith47
Madeline L'Engle
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nina Simone
Anita Tijoux
Dessa
Mrs. Hesslein, my elementary school Vision 21 teacher, who taught me how to think and exposed me to many of the above
(Not to pick on you, but dude - that's just sad)
Julie Mehretu
Kazuyo Sejima
Zaha Hadid
Mary Oliver
Gertrude Stein
Voltarine de Cleyre
Mad C
Faith47
Madeline L'Engle
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nina Simone
Anita Tijoux
Dessa
Mrs. Hesslein, my elementary school Vision 21 teacher, who taught me how to think and exposed me to many of the above
Rachel Ray
Giada de Laurentis
Paula Deen
All those women know how to make amazing sandwiches and should be admired
Giada de Laurentis
Paula Deen
All those women know how to make amazing sandwiches and should be admired
Didn't she win, like, one battle? And then she progressively lost power until they burned her for... something or other?Arontala said:
I'm not particularly impressed by Joan, is what I'm saying.
On topic? I can't say that there are many I admire. Summer Glau is beautiful and a crazy sexy ninja ballerina, so there's her.
...
That's really all I got. Sorry, but women haven't really done a whole lot. Not many female badasses.
Oh, wait! There was this one Russian bomber pilot chick in WWII. She was freaking insane, and awesome. Her name escapes me, though. I think it was Irina... something.
Edit: Sebrova! That's her last name! Found her on Wikipedia. She was in Badass: The Book, and she just came to mind. Her Wikipedia page is kind of sparse, though. Shame. She was one crazy fatherf*cker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Sebrova
One of my friends,
Tori Amos,
my mom,
a professor of mine - very strong willed,
I could look up names, but, a lot of women were abolitionists, inventors, political activists...
hhmmmm, I sense an overshadowing here....
Tori Amos,
my mom,
a professor of mine - very strong willed,
I could look up names, but, a lot of women were abolitionists, inventors, political activists...
hhmmmm, I sense an overshadowing here....
To follow cbert's example I will post some more to make up for your sexist ignoranceDr Snakeman said:
Amelia Earhart
Margret Chase Smith
Rosa Parks
Rosie the Riveter
Virginia Wolf
Helen Keller
Jacqueline Kennedy
Just to name a few
I'll second Courtney Love. Anyone who says she murdered Kurt (or in any way encouraged his death) is ignorant of anything resembling facts and I will leave it at that.lonely tylenol said:
Alanis Morissette, since we seem to be on a musical theme, and I really respect her as well.
Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, one of the best minds in Dungeons and Dragons, and one of the few women to be lead writer on one of their books.
Jacqueline Carey, one of my favorite authors.
Lois McMaster Bujold, my other favorite author.
I have a few others, but they are people I know in real life, so their names wouldn't tell you much.
Huh. Really? *checks Wikipedia*Arontala said:
Well, sunuvva *****. Don't know where I got the "just one battle" thing from. I guess she is pretty decent.
Actually, there's some question about how religious she actually was. She may have just used that as a cover story - she was a military genius mostly because she didn't follow the "rules" of war (because she didn't know them). Instead of being honorable, she used actual tactics, which is why she was able to re-capture half of France and crown the prince King.Arontala said:
Afterwards, because she was too dangerous to keep around, she basically got sent on a suicide mission and got captured.
I did some research on this a few years back. Jeanne was pretty awesome.
One of the movies about Jeanne d'Arc only shows her winning one battle (and then skips ahead). That's probably why. It was just to save time so they could have her freak out more. They off-handedly mention her winning more battles, but they only filmed one (I'm of course talking about the one staring what's-her-name from the Resident Evil movies).Dr Snakeman said:
Hey, now, that's not sexist. I just have pretty high standards for people I admire, and none of those ladies really live up to them: all Earhart did was fly around and disappear, Rosa Parks just sat down (it was the black community as a whole that deserves the credit for the Montgomery bus boycott), all Wolfe did was write (as far as I know), I don't know who Smith is, I don't know of of a single thing Kennedy did except be the President's wife, and Rosie doesn't exist; she's just an image on a poster. Helen Keller was pretty cool, but as great as educating the deaf and/or blind is, it's not exactly spectacular.artanis_neravar said:
They aren't comparable to Nikola Tesla, or Theodore Roosevelt, or Robert E. Lee, or Bass Reeves. I just can't realistically hold any women as role models.
Is that the one where the girl gets stabbed into a door then raped at the beginning of the movie?Bara_no_Hime said:
To follow cbert and artanis_neravar
I want to note my admiration for all the women who fought and died during world war 2 in the French Resistance, Italian Resistance, The Warsaw Uprising, in Russia, Sophie Scholl in the White Rose. I want to note my admiration for Josephine Baker and Hedy Lamarr.
To women who fought for suffrage.
To Florence Nightengale.
To Isadora Duncan, to Loie Fuller, to Martha Graham
To Hildegard von Bingen, to Barbara Strozzi, and to Pauline Oliveros.
To Dolores Huerta, Mother Theresa, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
To Marie Curie, Ada Byron, Barbara McClintock, Jane Goodall, and Rosalind Franklin
To Mae West, Diana Rigg, Elizabeth Taylor.
To Nadia Boulanger!
To Wendy Carlos!
To all the women who have done amazing work in all the fields of endeavor that they have done in the history of this planet.
And to the women who've touched me personally:
My mother.
Ms. Langer, my middle school art teacher.
Cpt. Swope, one of the best company commanders I ever had.
Sgt. Munyon, an amazing military intel analyst and really one of the best NCOs I ever had.
Prof. Fillion, the one who convinced me to go off to grad school.
Prof. Delia, who taught me how to write critically.
Prof. Susan McClary, one of the Musicologists who has had the biggest effect on me.
Women I served in the military with.
Women I did activism with.
Women who have taught me throughout my life.
And inspired me.
Hat's off to one half of the population!
I want to note my admiration for all the women who fought and died during world war 2 in the French Resistance, Italian Resistance, The Warsaw Uprising, in Russia, Sophie Scholl in the White Rose. I want to note my admiration for Josephine Baker and Hedy Lamarr.
To women who fought for suffrage.
To Florence Nightengale.
To Isadora Duncan, to Loie Fuller, to Martha Graham
To Hildegard von Bingen, to Barbara Strozzi, and to Pauline Oliveros.
To Dolores Huerta, Mother Theresa, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
To Marie Curie, Ada Byron, Barbara McClintock, Jane Goodall, and Rosalind Franklin
To Mae West, Diana Rigg, Elizabeth Taylor.
To Nadia Boulanger!
To Wendy Carlos!
To all the women who have done amazing work in all the fields of endeavor that they have done in the history of this planet.
And to the women who've touched me personally:
My mother.
Ms. Langer, my middle school art teacher.
Cpt. Swope, one of the best company commanders I ever had.
Sgt. Munyon, an amazing military intel analyst and really one of the best NCOs I ever had.
Prof. Fillion, the one who convinced me to go off to grad school.
Prof. Delia, who taught me how to write critically.
Prof. Susan McClary, one of the Musicologists who has had the biggest effect on me.
Women I served in the military with.
Women I did activism with.
Women who have taught me throughout my life.
And inspired me.
Hat's off to one half of the population!
When you describe it like that it makes more sense but saying "Sorry, but women haven't really done a whole lot" comes across as sexist. and Margaret Chase Smith "was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater). She was a moderate Republican, included with those known as Rockefeller Republicans. When she left office, Smith had the record as the longest-serving female senator in United States history, ranking 11th in seniority among the members of the Senate, a distinction that was not surpassed until January 5, 2011, when Senator Barbara Mikulski was sworn in for a fifth term."Dr Snakeman said:
