Login with PatreonNo women ever invented an atomic bomb, built a smoke stack, initiated a Holocaust, melted the polar ice caps or organized a school shooting.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 29, 2016
Well… this is spectacularly not true https://t.co/f23ZDTrJFr
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
@MMFlint This is Elizabeth Graves. Her work on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos was essential to developing nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/crNBKxA2xh
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
@MMFlint This is Mary Walton. She patented two smoke stacks. pic.twitter.com/0BiomwxP4F
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
This is Ilse Koch, a commandant of Buchenwald. pic.twitter.com/JJFHAa7eR5
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
As for melting the polar ice caps, meet Ceri Powell, head of global exploration for Shell. pic.twitter.com/8kHTqTpS54
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
And the first modern school shooter was Brenda Spencer, a teenage girl.
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
Women have faced a boatload of opression at the hands of the patriarchy, but you do not get to erase us. We are not ivory monuments.
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
And telling women that there is no dark side to them, that they are pure as cream, is detrimental to their mental health. We are not better.
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
To suggest so, you not only remove our agency and erase us from history, you cauterize our ability to make choices.
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
Being ethically good is no easier for us than it is for men. It's time you stopped acting like goodness comes out of our vaginas. We choose.
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 30, 2016
It was precisely this line of thinking that put RP Kurmanjan Datka in charge, because it was thought women wouldn’t start wars and would be quiet and compliant. They were wrong. They were so so wrong.
Women are not innately pure and moral paragons of virtue–women are people, with all that entails, good, bad, and complex. This is part of why this site features not-so-nice women, like Wu Zetian, Ranavalona I, Elisabeth Bathory, and Bibi Ayisha.
