Ok. So last summer my mother, at age 60, backpacked 55 miles with me. All while being diabetic which poses significant challenges backpacking as its hard to control sugar levels. Oh, and she broke her toe halfway through and kept going like the badass she is.

Holy crap

@_Tom Bombarding..the only reason I could see for limiting a thread about uninspirational individuals who cruh souls etc to women is that if we included men then the thread might well take up way too much "memory space" and crash the WebDiplomacy site.
One more comment from me about the writing of Ayn Rand.. It's just a personal opinion, but too often when reading her stuff, I felt like I was reading a "grim polemic".. She, imho, had little talent for using comedy to make a point. Like Mark Twain could do brilliantly.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned her, but Jane Austen does deserve a mention as a great writer. Not as a great "woman writer", but imho, as a great writer. And I would hope that is how we are regarding the women writers..not as good / great etc in a separate class of " women writers", but as good/ great writers in the "class of all writers, men and women"

Warren? yikes

@Brain:

You laid traps in your mansplaining thread, the answers to which you drag bound to the people in this thread, some of whom offered nothing but women authors, before you, among others, attacked those opinions based on... on what?

On political ideology? Because of resentment? You think I'm a psychotic sexist because I dislike feminism. Fine, but that's your problem, your characterisation of me, not mine. If I put up a woman whom I admire, that should be the end of the story. But no, you lover and honourer of women attack... I followed the rules of the thread.

You can't separate people from ideas. That is not my problem. I'm not a libertarian, I don't ascribe to Rand's views. Some of them I like, or find interesting. Same with Heinlein, Asimov, and Dick. A person can like another person's work and not agree with them on every or any point.

As a twenty year old I assumed my betters would have understood that.

Could anyone have predicted? A thread about inspirational women that degrades into a bunch of men taking about the right way to treat women and which women are actually inspirational based on their own political biases. I don't think it gets much farther from feminism than that.

Sojourner Truth

Truer words.

Gee, CA, why do I get the sense that you don't really know much about what feminism is?

Let me be the first too state that my knowledge & understanding of feminism is far from perfect. It's rudimentary rather than perfect.

CA has a point that this thread has become a joke.

Hypatia...astronomer, mathematician.

Women having the full capacity to determine their own place in society without regard to the expectations or attitudes of anyone else.

Roughly speaking

Here's another one: Rachel Coleman
https://www.signingtime.com/company/about-us/story/

Women have the full capacity to determine their own place in society without regard to anyone else's expectations or attitudes.

That's why they're better paid, commit less suicide and occupy more places in higher education than men these days.

And also, possibly, why studies show there's been a downward trend in female happiness for the last few decades.

I think you're in the wrong thread.

Take your factually wrong woman hating bullshit back to the mra filled thread I muted, thanks.

How about Helen of Troy?

The face alone launched a thousand ships. Oh but for Ogion, that would imply a military fetish. By the way why does he have such love for fetishes anyway?

And I am for manspreading. What else are you to do when your hips are narrower anyway. It's just sexist and insensitive not to allow a man to sit comfortably.

Who are you talking to DO?

You.

I am so happy that i muted that one. I have no idea what that one blathered. I would suggest croak that you mute that one too as all that comes from that one is spite, insincerity, recrimination, and wandering raving lunacy. Yes mute the D. And O so nicely the static just disappears.

Uhm we really need a mass-ban like they did with synapse and mapleleaf.

Clean up the site and trim some if the deplorable members out

Nothing i've said is factually inaccurate or woman-hating, and I was not aware of another "MRA filled thread."

Let's start a MUTEany

Burn the boats! Burn the boats! Burn the boats! Burn the boats!