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Monday, October 4th, 2010 08:55 am
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 [livejournal.com profile] 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?
Monday, October 4th, 2010 08:43 pm (UTC)
So. Muthafucking. Cool.

I think it's unbelievably silly that the Soviets (as in, those guys we've spent the last 50 years demonizing) had women as snipers, pilots, and tank drivers while the US had the "WASPS" (which really just flew supplies), and eventually disbanded the WASPS when public opinion switched to thinking they were floosies, because, yeah, that's apparently more important than whether or not they do the job. It's not so important when you're staring down the barrel of a Luger and your country is on the verge of annialation, is it? Mmm? It's amazing the stupid restrictions people insist upon when they AREN'T about to be destroyed.

I love the idea of a 30 Day MEME for awesome chicks <3
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 06:14 am (UTC)
Yeah, one of the pluses of communism is that they were a bit ahead of us on the women's rights front.

I love the idea of a 30 Day MEME for awesome chicks <3

Me too!
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 06:55 am (UTC)
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.
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 04:10 pm (UTC)
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.