That's more people than fucking Charles Bronson killed in all the Death Wish movies combined.

[redbrunja]

First, check out this awesome post about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a famous Solviet sniper in WWII. (The tone cracks me up.)

Which leads to... inspired by hungrytiger11 , I was thinking of doing a thirty-day meme about women. However, while she is just picking a new, awesome lady each day, I thought it would be fun to do that with a little more structure. Some possibilities for categories that I came up with were:

Best HBIC.
Best Nonaction Girl
Best techie.
Best badass normal.
Favorite girly-girl.

What are your suggestions, flist?

Comments

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

One of the things that's always pissed me off about that is the fact that, because communism supported women's equality, that all "patriotic" factions in the US actively tried to prohibit movements in that direction. Nobody wanted to be "communist" so it seems like, for the longest time, being "feminist" meant the same thing to the uneducated and over-propagandaed masses. Even today you'll see people claiming that equality is a strictly communist ideal and every move in that direction is a move towards communism, because, you know, it's not like it says anything about equality in our constitution or anything.

It's my theory that, globally, the US supporting rightist coups over governments in smaller, developing countries that were even slightly leftest single-handedly set back women's rights worldwide. Like Afghanistan? We did that because we would have rather had a mysogynist theocracy in power than any sort of communist government. I don't have nearly the research required to back up that thesis, but I have some rather strong suspicions that women's advancement in developing countries was one of the many things set back by our insistence on fighting communism by supporting the other extreme.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

To my mind, the amount of damage the US has done by supporting regimes that are financial beneficial to us and/or aren't communism CANNOT be overstated.