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Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 10:08:39 AM   
ElanSubdued


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Status: offline 		Lady Pact's thread "Lack of Imagination" got me thinking.  I too have become frustrated by the countless "Do Dominas like... strap-ons, milking, toilet slaves, sissies, (insert your kink here)" threads.  Whether intended or not, these threads seem like wank fodder, or minimally they feel inconsequential.  I say "inconsequential" not in slight, but rather to point out that someone else's preference in strap-ons really is of no consequence to anyone but that individual (and perhaps to their partner as well).  In my own life, the last time I asked a Domina about strap-ons was never, at least not unless we were already intimately involved and this was of interest to us.

This morning, while checking my email, I came upon an article on MSN.  I've decided to share a summary of that article in the hopes that it inspires others to contribute.  The topic is famous women who accomplished "firsts" in the world and I'll add, for the purpose of this thread, that whether famous or not it would be interesting to hear about any woman you know of who has given to those around her and/or accomplished something of significance to humanity during difficult circumstances.  Given that MSN is an American site, the majority of the women listed are American.  Below the summary, I've added a few women from my own country.  These women interest me much more than someone simply wielding a strap-on (not that there is anything wrong with strap-ons :-).

Famous Female Firsts
http://lifestyle.msn.com/mindbodyandsoul/womenintheworld/staticslideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=3841668&imageindex=1

Summary as follows...

Jeannette Rankin:  1915, First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
Janet Guthrie:  1977, First woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500
Victoria Woodhull:  1872, First female presidential candidate
Mary Lyon:  1837, Founded first American institute of higher education for women
Anne Bradstreet:  1647, First published American female writer
Annie Edson Taylor:  1901, First person to survive fall over Niagara Falls
Diane Crump:  1969, First woman to ride in Kentucky Derby
Ellen Swallow Richards:  1870, First woman admitted to MIT
Elizabeth Blackwell:  1849, First American female doctor
Sally Ride:  1983, First American female astronaut
Antonia Novello:  1990, First female surgeon general of the United States

Bessie Coleman:  1920, First African-American female pilot and first American to get an international pilot license

Jody Williams:  1991, Founder of International Campaign Against Land Mines and winner of 1997 Nobel Peace Prize

Zainab Salbi:  1993, Founder of Women for Women International, helping women from wartorn countries (Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Rwanda) rebuild their lives through vocational training, providing seed capital for women to start their own businesses and helping women learn to read and write to become active citizens in their societies


And from my own country...

Carole Taylor - Current Finance Minister of British Columbia, Canada
Michaelle Jean - Current Governor General of Canada
Kim Campbell - 19th Prime Minister of Canada

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 10:31:46 AM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 11:41:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, if we're doing firsts, Elizabeth the First was a strong monarch who presided over an expansion of British power and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. In a very different realm, Marie Curie was the first woman to share in a Nobel prize and also the first (and I believe still the only) woman to be awarded two Nobels - the first one jointly, with her husband Pierre, and the second one on her own.

Keeping in mind the title of the thread, I'm not sure that Marie Curie's achievements had very much to do with power, although Elizabeth I's certainly did. I don't think the two necessarily go together. The hapless Annie Edson Taylor, from the OP's list, sounds like an even better example of achievement sans power.



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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 11:49:13 AM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 1:01:15 PM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 3:22:18 PM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 6:31:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Catherine the Great (Russia) was very powerful, capable, was quite an intellect with "appetites" to match. And was kinky to boot! (Mmmm....boots.)

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 7:42:52 PM   
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The elderly woman smoothed her black dress and touched the lace at her throat and wrists. Her snow-white hair was gathered into a knot at the nape of her neck, and a black hat, trimmed with lavender ribbons to lend a touch of color, shaded her finely wrinkled face. She was about five feet tall, but she exuded energy and enthusiasm. As she waited to speak, her bright blue eyes scanned the people grouped beyond the platform. Her kindly expression never altered as her voice broke over the audience: "I'm not a humanitarian," she exclaimed. "I'm a hell-raiser."

 
 
Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the earliest feminists in English history, and mother of the equally famous daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
 
Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, who avenged herself against the men who whipped her and raped her daughters by burning London to the ground.  The city still bears a consistent layer of ash in its archaeological record to mark her passing.
 
The two greatest female pharoahs of Egypt, Hatshepsut and the Cleopatry of the Ptolemy. 
 
Author, sex symbol, sexual liberator, a tireless foe of censorship who was both imprisoned and made famous for her risque humor, a champion of gay rights and equality--Mae West.
 
Just a few of my favorites!  I could go on all day. 

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 8:11:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ElanSubdued
The topic is famous women who accomplished "firsts" in the world and I'll add, for the purpose of this thread, that whether famous or not it would be interesting to hear about any woman you know of who has given to those around her and/or accomplished something of significance to humanity during difficult circumstances. 
Elan.



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Sweeet thread.
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 8:31:19 PM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 8:35:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lozen-An Apache warrior and shaman of who it was said ""She could ride, shoot, and fight like a man," said Kaywaykla, "and I think she had more ability in planning military strategy than did Chief Victorio." It was also said that she had what the Apaches called "Power," supernatural abilities on the battlefield and in spiritual communication. Lozen fought in more campaigns against the Mexicans and the Americans than any of the great Apache leaders such as Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Juh, Chihuahua, Geronimo or her own brother, Victorio. "Lozen began fighting Mexican soldiers and scalp hunters, eternal enemies of her band, when she came of age in the 1840’s," said Aleshire. "After the Americans arrived in 1848 to lay claim to her homeland, she battled them as well."

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/6/2008 9:57:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Elan, very good topic.  I admit, My own answer was already given when Margret Thatcher was mentioned.  There was a time that she was the best known woman of power in the world.




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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 12:18:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ironically, the Victoria Woodhull that you mention is the person whom the Woodhull Freedom Foundation (http://www.woodhullfoundation.org) -- a sex positive advocacy organization -- was named for.  She was, as the website details, "a progressive and outspoken nineteenth-century activist who introduced sex-positive values to America during the repressive Victorian era." 

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 12:27:02 AM   
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Clara Barton, one of the first women on the nation's battlefields (nurse) and founder of the American Red Cross (http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bart-cla.htm)  One of the Barton mottos is "Control Under Pressure."  :-)

Certainly powerful for their time, they've motivated millions of others for their individual movements.

Other women in history: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 12:40:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		I suggest the OP and all the other lovely Ladies here in this part of the forum read "Seductress and Women who ravished the world and their lost art of Loves" By Betsy Preliou. Its an absolutely wonderfull book about women who changed the world and the course of history through seduction, dominace and all the many other "ars amatoria" we women come to so naturally

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 8:54:45 AM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 9:31:06 AM   
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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 1:58:31 PM   
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Let's not forget Margaret Thatcher.  I always thought her husband, Denis, was the perfect sub.


Ooh! The Iron Lady herself! Great call.

Another politico from the opposite end of the spectrum: I've always been an admirer of Eleanor Roosevelt. Very smart. Very astute and politically adept and very brave. And tall. I like tall.

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 3:21:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Margaret Sanger. Reliable contraception has shaken human society to its foundations. Anything approach a full accounting of its effects is many, many years in the future.

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RE: Appreciating Powerful Women - 3/7/2008 10:45:20 PM   
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Hillary Clinton: 2008, First female US president...... :-)


Things were looking dodgy there for a while.  I'm not sure how she is doing now.  Care to enlighten me? :-)

Elan.

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