Three women you admire, GO!

[Bara_no_Hime]

I guess I chose those three mainly because they are always misinterpreted and misunderstood. Yoko Ono comes up in a conversation: "she broke up The Beatles". No she didn't (much), and no one ever thinks the most important thing: John Lennon was happy with her and madly in love. So does Courtney Love, everyone thinks she is some junkie murderer. I think she is a pretty decent musician, and Kurt Cobain never complained about her.

I own every Hole album. ^^ I love her music. Celebrity Skin and Nobody's Daughter (the albums) are my favorites.

I respect Yoko (the Beatles were breaking up with or without her), but I never cared for her music. She was a great artist (her installations and performance pieces, not her music), though.

 

[trooper6]

What caused the break up of the Beatles?

Not Yoko, but the death of Brian Epstein.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

 

[Chemical Alia]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

Wait, the level designer? If you're talking about who I'm thinking of, she went to the same grad school as me briefly before dropping out, and that was not a woman. By any stretch. I'm not aware of her internet identity, but this strikes me as odd.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

Wait, the level designer? If you're talking about who I'm thinking of, she went to the same grad school as me briefly before dropping out, and that was not a woman. By any stretch. I'm not aware of her internet identity, but this strikes me as odd.

She is a male to female transgender. :3

 

[Chemical Alia]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

Wait, the level designer? If you're talking about who I'm thinking of, she went to the same grad school as me briefly before dropping out, and that was not a woman. By any stretch. I'm not aware of her internet identity, but this strikes me as odd.

She is a male to female transgender. :3

Ah, then she must be the same person, that would make sense. Interesting.

 

[lonely tylenol]

What caused the break up of the Beatles?

Not Yoko, but the death of Brian Epstein.

Also the discontent of George Harrison. Everyone's artistic talent eventually grew and got better. One group with 4 geniuses can't last long.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

She is a male to female transgender. :3

Ah, then she must be the same person, that would make sense. Interesting.

I didn't even know she was a transgender until I looked her up on Wikipedia, I wouldn't have guessed. I knew she was a lesbian, mind. Not that that fact explains the transgender thing, but it made sense. I guess.

Still. She's a woman now and I admire her as a game designer very much.

 

[cbert]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

This thread is making me aware of some amazing people...

On a side note, I understand if it takes a lot for you to say you truly "admire" someone. I'm curious what your criteria are. If someone inspires me through their work or actions, then I admire them.

I admire quite a few people. I consider this a strength. One quality I admire is courage, out of ethical responsibility, empathy, or artistic motivation, to take action which is unpopular with society and out of sync with what is expected of you.

Most of the women listed in these pages fit that criteria, and have accomplished extraordinary things - whether it's Faith47's freedom charter or Kate Marsden's epic 2000-mile trek across Siberia or Hildegaard von Bingen's musically-stirring middle finger to the religious authorities.

I don't need to use claims of subverting patriarchy to justify lesser accomplishments; these people have done amazing things.

 

[Davey Woo]

Admire as in, think they're awesome people and like what they do? Or admire as in, want to have sex with them?

If the former, then I can't really think of any to be honest, and I couldn't think of any men either. The latter, I'm gonna need more than 3 choices.

 

[lonely tylenol]

Here are mine:

Spoiler: Nancy Spungen

Spoiler: Courtney Love

Spoiler: Yoko Ono

Courtney Love: Because it takes guts to murder your famous husband and make it look like suicide so you can be in the limelight.

Yoko Ono: Because come on, she singlehandedly ruined the single greatest musical group ever formed!


Ok, ok. My 3:

1. Soledad O'Roark: Heroine of Those Who Walk In Darkness. A S.W.A.T. officer whose job it is to hunt down the x-men, basically.

2. Samus Aran: In spite of that whole Other M debacle, she *STILL* kicks ass.

3. Chell: Seriously, you can't keep this woman down!

At least my three women exist.

 

[La Barata]

Yeah, that really does say something about our generation, doesn't it, when 3/4 of the women mentioned in this thread are video game charactes

 

[Lukeje]

Yeah, that really does say something about our generation, doesn't it, when 3/4 of the women mentioned in this thread are video game charactes

Not really. It says something about the members of your generation who frequent a gaming magazine's website.

 

[II2]

I'd be hardpressed to find three anyone I admire w/o more specific reasons, but, what the hell... off the top of my head:

- Pia Guerra (Illustrator)

- Yoko Kanno (GiTS: SAC, not Beatles, for the easily confused)

- Allison Theus (EC Art department)

I suppose I tend to respect artists I know about? It's actually a harder question than you'd think if you don't go around considering it on your own... Its not exactly like you rely on mainstream media to shine the spotlight on female talent.

Then again, I'm also a guy who doesn't really do the hero worship thing much, but generally looks to other successful dudes as role models. (Ken Levine, Warren Ellis, Somatic Responses Bros, etc)

 

[Mr Somewhere]

In no particular order...
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Shirley Jackson: Haunting of Hill House
and
Susan Hill: Woman in Black
I don't have near as many favorite female authors as I do Male, but, that's just how it is...

 

[Grayjack]

The only woman I can think of is Joan of Arc.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Courtney Love: Because it takes guts to murder your famous husband and make it look like suicide so you can be in the limelight.

Oh man, seriously? Seriously?
That's hilarious. Just... haha, good to see some crazy conspiracy nuts never die out. Shine on you crazy, crazy people.