Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.
Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.
Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.
Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.
Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.
The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.
Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.
One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.
Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.
i remember when i thought i was straight and this guy i was dating was trying to pressure me into sex while i had cramps by saying “orgasms relieve cramps babe” and without thinking i replied “but you don’t make me cum” and i have never seen anyone go through the seven stages of grief so quickly
I was at a zoo where the animals were allowed to run loose. I was scared but the animals were pretty chill and eventually I started playing with a bear. The bear had an under-inflated ball, which was filled with water. We were trying to kick it but it was too floppy, so eventually the bear started inflating it with his breath. I was excited to play but the bear wouldn’t stop inflating it, and when I started getting worried, he suddenly grabbed me and pinned me to a chain link fence with the pressure of the ball. I was terrified because I knew if the ball burst, the water would be freezing, a situation I’m afraid of being forced into in the waking world because the cold makes my joints hurt and muscles lock up to the point that I’ve been partially paralyzed a few times, so I worry that being abruptly doused in cold water could send me into shock or even an actual seizure*. The ball burst and not only was the water cold, it wouldn’t stop rushing past me. I was screaming and begging for help, trying to pull myself along the fence to a point where the water wouldn’t be strong enough to carry me away.
And then I “woke up” (dry and in comfortable clothes) on a futon in what looked like the front room of a campy knick-knack shop. There were dangling charms, which could have been Christmas ornaments, of the G1 My Little Pony characters Katrina and the Moochik. There were four altogether, and three of them were Katrina, with one of them hanging off another. Without being told, I knew they were handmade even though they could have easily been assumed to be store bought. Then the actual Moochik came out and I can’t quite remember what he said, but he acknowledged the situation with the bear**. He told me there was a bathroom I could use out back but it was actually a tiny bedroom with a fake toilet, and a large “secret” bathroom through a tiny door in the wall. When I went to the bathroom I noticed that the toilet was on a hinge so it looked like the lid was just hanging on the wall. I also couldn’t get into the bathroom because the shower was automatic and sprayed the whole room, and what set it off was how wide the secret door into the bathroom was open, which I’d have to open completely to get in. There were some strange buttons on the wall that looked like tiny suction cups and I was trying to reach them without opening the secret door too far.
*this has never actually happened but I’m terrified that it will some day
**this is why I’m not sure if it was a nested dream or not, because it doesn’t make sense for him to know about the bear unless it was a single dream, but the dream from that point on didn’t play out like the bear thing had actually happened
my brother is getting married and i’m so excited to fulfill my destiny as the embarrassing drunk gay sister who flirts with the bride for the entire ceremony
i’m gonna yell “RUN AWAY WITH ME” to her during the vows
there are people out there genuinely worried that I’m gonna steal my brother’s bride away the day of their wedding… i’m laughing. I’ve known her since I was born, we just love annoying the shit out of my brother and this “you picked the wrong sibling” joke has been going on for as long as I can remember. The whole family is in on it. The three of us are super close, she’s always been family. Also we are really bad at romantic weddings (my Mom wore jeans at my Dad’s and hers, signed a bunch of papers and then got blackout drunk), and my brother and his girlfriend probably won’t even have a “real” ceremony, just a celebration between friends and family. I love my brother and he already knows I’m gonna pull some stupid stunt, it’s what we do. His girlfriend is usually the one to initiate these shitty jokes, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was the one to stop the “ceremony” to say some shit like “WAIT THIS IS THE WRONG SIBLING”. please don’t take any of this seriously lmao
that said, i’m definitely showing up half naked to her bachelorette party as the “surprise stripper” with a sash that says “the sibling your should be marrying” and a shitty plastic tiara
UPDATE:
1) for people confused about the “I’ve known her since I was born (…) she’s always been family”: She’s the granddaughter of our parents’ neighbors, we all grew up together and my brother and her have been in love since they were babies. He held her hand as she made her first steps, they even have a picture on their wall of the moment before she first tried to get up
2) IT’S OFFICIAL, I’M GONNA BE MY BROTHER’S BEST MAN. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE BEST MAN DO? A SPEECH. Everything is going according to plan.
