Well-behaved women who made history

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emily post

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:13 (thirteen years ago)

dear abby

fka snush (remy bean), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:15 (thirteen years ago)

eleanor roosevelt

Aimless, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:16 (thirteen years ago)

miss manners

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:16 (thirteen years ago)

daisy fuentes

the hairy office thing (Eazy), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:18 (thirteen years ago)

this seems like a pretty rare thing

Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

catherine of aragon

fka snush (remy bean), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)

Jesus's mom

and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)

Marie Curie

Fannie Lou Hamer

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:26 (thirteen years ago)

mata hari

fka snush (remy bean), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

that girl who was stuck in a well

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:29 (thirteen years ago)

carrie underwood

ghostface protocollah (some dude), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:29 (thirteen years ago)

mary lou retton

i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:30 (thirteen years ago)

Cookie Mueller

and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

Dorothy Michaels

the hairy office thing (Eazy), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:34 (thirteen years ago)

Florence Nightingale

piscesx, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

Jane Austen

picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:19 (thirteen years ago)

Carrie Underwood fucked up her dude's truck. I know he deserved it, but I'm pretty sure that's still a misdemeanor most places.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (thirteen years ago)

i thought about that but it's not like she actually did any of the stuff she sings about in that song or even wrote it, she was just being a well-behaved woman who sang what the producers gave her to sing

ghostface protocollah (some dude), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

margaret thatcher
indira ghandi

preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (thirteen years ago)

I'm putting you on notice for Thatcher

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

was kind of challopsy, yeah

preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (thirteen years ago)

rmde @ you :)

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (thirteen years ago)

jigglypuff

arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:46 (thirteen years ago)

xp
Indira Gandhi too!

rob, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

Doris Day

HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:01 (thirteen years ago)

having talent and acquiring fame is not quite the same as making history, tbf

Mr. Peabody (Aimless), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:06 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

Marie Curie

disqualified for going to sekrit illegal university run by anti-Russian radicals (women weren't allowed into university in Poland under Russian rule at the time), then leaving the country to study further

sry if that was the point but Marie Curie was awesome iirc

doxxy fule (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago)

Mrs. O'Leary (it was her cow that had behavioral problems)

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago)

jigglypuff

― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:46 (6 months ago) Permalink

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago)

I hate the quote "Well-behaved women rarely make history" because I see women who have that on a bumper sticker as justification for cutting people off in traffic or Luna posting to make herself feel better for conning people out of thousands of dollars.

Sug ban (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago)

well-behaved women rarely make clusterfucks

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago)

^^^new board description

Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago)

What are the standards for misbehavior that would disqualify a history-making woman? Would the same behavior disqualify a man from being considered "well-behaved"?

Aimless, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago)

IMO, many men that made history weren't very well-behaved either.

Lee626, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago)

Caligula, imma lookin at YOU.

Aimless, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago)

I approve of this thread. Nicole otm, original quote usually deployed by people looking to prove that their shitty actions are excusable.

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago)

indira ghandi

!!!!!

EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago)

maybe in the sense that Aung San Suu Kyi seems to have taken house arrest like a bro.

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago)

The subheadings under "Legislative career" on her Wikipedia say a lot by themselves:


2 Legislative career
2.1 War with Pakistan in 1971
2.2 Foreign policy
2.3 Nuclear weapons program
2.4 Green Revolution
2.5 Bank nationalizations
2.6 1971 election victory and second term
2.7 Verdict on electoral malpractice
2.8 State of Emergency (1975–1977)
2.9 Rule by decree
2.10 Elections
2.11 Removal, arrest, and return
2.12 Operation Blue Star
2.13 Assassination

EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago)

I'm a lazy doof but who's that female Olympic boxer that aero liked? She seemed p well-behaved.

IMP of the perverse (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago)

she made so much history you can't remember her name

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago)

margaret thatcher
indira ghandi

^ trollXor

Ernest Metalchats (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago)

sofia vergara

live or die merits of the button thread (wolves lacan), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago)

every lady in the guiness book of world records seems to be pretty well behaved, except for that mad hattie real estate tycoon character who subsisted on gruel for 80 years.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago)

Leona Helmsley?

Nhex, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago)

oh her name was hetty not hattie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_Green

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago)

this entire thread and not a single mention of HERSTORY smdh

real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago)

Pussy Riot

Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

that girl who was stuck in a well

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, April 9, 2012 11:29 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know what I was thinking here. If she was playing around a well, she probably was not well-behaved.

Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 8 May 2015 20:56 (ten years ago)

maybe her mother asked her to go to the well and draw some water but she was very literal-minded so she dutifully took her pencil and sketchbook and was peeping timidly over the edge when she slipped and lost her balance.

estela, Friday, 8 May 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)

Did it even occur to you that that would be equally mitigating without the "drawing" pun?

italosVEVO (wins), Friday, 8 May 2015 21:16 (ten years ago)

it did, for even the maligned playing around a well business falls within the broad range of possible well-behaviours.

estela, Friday, 8 May 2015 21:46 (ten years ago)

well played

italosVEVO (wins), Friday, 8 May 2015 21:48 (ten years ago)

oh i dunno as I approve of ye two together unsupervised tbh

thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2015 22:00 (ten years ago)

"After listening to her for so long, I could tell her moods," a detective on the scene recalled. "At one point she was singing. At another point, when a jackhammer started up, she didn't say any words but used kind of a huffy little voice. You could tell it was an angry voice."

ungrateful little viper, grumbling at her rescuers like that. Emily Post doesn't dictate the protocol for toddlers stuck in wells, but I feel like a simple 'thank you for saving my life' would suffice.

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 8 May 2015 22:09 (ten years ago)

girls dont kiss asses from underground passes

thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2015 22:18 (ten years ago)

Malala, surely?

“audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 May 2015 03:53 (ten years ago)


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