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Inspirational Women

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Was watching Britain's Got Talent for a bit last night and Alisha Dickson was talking about how one of the acts made her feel 'empowered'. From what I could tell they were a bunch or Romanian women walking around in their undies.

 

I frequently hear the likes of Beyonce and Michelle Obama cited as inspirational too. Beyonce who basically built her career on being 'that fit one from Destiny's Child', something she's wholeheartedly embraced with her bouncing backside and skimpy outfits. 

 

I bought my Mrs the Michelle Obama book for Christmas and I asked her what it was like, she said, completely innocently, 'quite boring until she meets Barack'. She's basically Coleen Rooney with a law degree, famous only for being married to a bloke. 

 

So I thought we could show the little women how it's done.

 

Joan Clark, one of the team that helped crack the enigma code. Paid less than her male colleagues she was no less of a genius and key to winning the war.

 

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Kurdish Women's Fighters. Based on a tennet of Islam that embraces libertarian socialism and equality for women, ISIS (whose tactics include rape) are shit scared of them becaue if they're killed by a woman they don't go to paradise.

 

 

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Dianne Abbott is quite inspirational. Born and grew up working class, and became the first black MP in the UK. She receives dog abuse constantly including death threats but she doesn’t give a flying fuck, unlike the more sensitive types. 

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2 minutes ago, mattyq said:

Mo Mowlam

A brain tumour was killing her slowly and painfully and she still managed to preside over the Good Friday Agreement in Norn Ireland

Amazing woman

 

Would take her wig off during the peace talks and didn't mind swearing at Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley. 

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Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from the original Star Trek. 

 

Not only was it rare to see a woman on telly, but a black woman was unheard of. She was in one of the top jobs on the ship, had the first TV interracial kiss. Was toying with the idea of binning it off and Martin Luther King asked her not to because she was  too important.

 

Always makes me laugh the thought of the Elmer Fudd brigade spitting their jerky out watching her on telly. Great stuff. 

 

 

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https://www.biographyonline.net/military/odette-sanson.html

 

Odette Sansom, A French/British member of the Special Operations Executive. Captured by the Nazis, tortured by the Gestapo and sent to Ravensbrook, she survived the war due to being total nails. She's the most decorated spy - of either gender - during the entire war. 

 

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Despite her appalling treatment, she was not over consumed with bitterness. Instead after the war, she worked for various charities seeking to lessen the pain of war. For her service, she was awarded the George Cross. Her humility meant she was not keen on accepting the award, but she did accept it on behalf of all agents who suffered during the war. She briefly married, Peter Churchill, before marrying her third husband, Geoffrey Hallowes. She died in 1995 aged 83.

 

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7 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Kurdish Women's Fighters. Based on a tennet of Islam that embraces libertarian socialism and equality for women, ISIS (whose tactics include rape) are shit scared of them becaue if they're killed by a woman they don't go to paradise.

 

 

kurdish-female-fighters-womens-protection-unit-ypj-participate-training-military-camp-ras.jpg

 

I thought the YPG were secular?

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1 hour ago, Pidge said:

Violette Szabo

Sophie Scholl (along with the rest of the white rose group)

Emma Goldman

Maya Deren

 

And, if course, the greatest Brit of all time...

 

Florence Nightingale.

Just before she was executed she said, "It's such a splendid sunny day and I have to go" which i've always found very moving

In a similar vein Lepa Radic. She was a Yugoslav partisan fighting the Nazis and only 17.

She was captured, tortured and sentenced to death by public hanging.

Just before sentence was carried out she was offered a pardon if she grassed up her comrades.

She replied, " I'm not a traitor to my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers to the last man"

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