A Tribute to women. Wild, Bad Ass, sexy and FREE.

Can't talk about bad ass female rockers without Joan Jett

I saw this tour, woman is a damn force. TBH she's not the smoking hot type, but this woman just oozes raw primal sex. She'd hurt you, but man, it would be a good pain.

 
For 80's horror fans few scenes were as iconic and cool-with some sexy tossed in-as Mimi Kinkaid's dance to Bauhaus Stigmata Martyr from Night of the Demons. Useless trivia, Mimi is the lead dancer in the Stray Cats Sexy and 17 video

 
For 80's horror fans few scenes were as iconic and cool-with some sexy tossed in-as Mimi Kinkaid's dance to Bauhaus Stigmata Martyr from Night of the Demons. Useless trivia, Mimi is the lead dancer in the Stray Cats Sexy and 17 video

You had me at Bauhaus
 
On the heels of Simon's post Shirley Jackson author of the Haunting of Hill House which Netflix absolutely nailed recently.

Her short story the Lottery is also a masterpiece.
 
Fight scene from Anna. Over the top, but great choreography. Love the part with the plates.

 
The story of the world's first road trip

We’ve all heard the saying that goes something like, “Behind every great man is a great woman”, and we’ve become increasingly aware of many women in history whose contributions to their field have been over shadowed or overlooked by their male counterparts. One such person is Bertha Benz, the wife of Carl Benz, inventor of the horseless carriage or motorwagen, otherwise known as the motorcar.

Bertha, who was from a wealthy family, became her husband’s business partner and biggest supporter. While Carl was great at inventing things, by some accounts he wasn’t particularly confident in his new invention. Conversely, Bertha recognised the practicality and usefulness of Carl’s invention, where she also understood business, realising publicity would be required to demonstrate its usefulness to make it commercially viable.

Consequently, in 1888, 39 year old Bertha made a decision that would bring about commercial manufacture and sales success of motorcars, where she set out on what is considered the world’s first road trip. The story goes something like she and her two teenaged sons pushed the car a distance away from the house while Carl slept, so it wouldn’t wake him when they started the tiny engine, then the three of them drove 105 km. She left a note to her husband telling him they were visiting her mother.

The vehicle didn’t have a fuel tank, and of course there were no service stations in the time before cars, where petroleum fuel was bought from chemist shops and drip-fed directly into the carburettor. Several mechanical issues came up during the trip, which Bertha solved, such as cleaning fuel lines with hat pins and insulating wires with garters, plus inventing leather brake pads with the assistance of a cobbler, and a few other repairs with the help of a blacksmith.

Three days after arriving at their destination, Bertha and her sons made the return trip. Once home, she suggested several improvements to her husband, such as a third gear to help the vehicle climb hills. Bertha’s road trip and ideas made the Benz ‘Motorwagen’ a success and to this day Bertha’s contribution to the automotive industry is considered significant. However, this recognition only became widely known and celebrated in recent times. Except by Carl, who apparently wrote in his memoir that, “Only one person remained with me in the small ship of life when it seemed destined to sink. That was my wife. Bravely and resolutely she set the new sails of hope.
 
The woman who helped promote safe sex in the First World War

History’s full of people who stood up for their convictions against the powers that be, making vital contributions to society, even if such contributions weren’t recognised till long after their death. One such person is Ettie Rout, who I’m sure most people have never heard of. But I think she belongs here in this thread for her contributions to the promotion of sexual health among Commonwealth soldiers during the First World War.

In 1916 Ettie was an Australian-born New Zealand nurse caring for Kiwi soldiers in Egypt, discovering high rates of venereal diseases among the men. She considered it a medical problem, not a moral one, and using the old adage that prevention is better than the cure, she began to recommend and distribute safe sex kits. Eventually, after much resistance, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force began to distribute her kits to soldiers going on leave.

Ettie ended up in France, helping inspect brothels, and was decorated by the French and mentioned in despatches by a general, I assume for lowering rates of sexually transmitted disease in soldiers. However, given the prudish nature of the times, in New Zealand her name was not allowed to be published, apparently with a threat of a £100 fine, where she became a persona non grata with authorities refusing to recognise her.

According to Wikipedia Ettie published a book that was banned in New Zealand, but not Australia or Britain, the book being recommended by the British Medical Journal in 1922. The book became a best seller and apparently a bishop called her the “Wickedest woman in Britain”.

Ettie died by overdose of self-administered quinine in 1936.
 
Josephine Baker, first black woman to enter the French Pantheon
As l'ami Emmanuel said it "War Hero, Fighter, Dancer, Singer."

 
Not sure bad ass applies, but this somehow ended up on my YT side bar as a recommendation, and I remember my father playing the shit out of this back in the day. Maybe this is why, some lovely ladies here.

Ah, Disco, an admitted guilty pleasure of mine

 
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