WHY WE LOVE THE INTERNET, PART 3,482
by Hazed
Twitter may have a reputation for being full or fake accounts, bots and trolls, but it also has many very quick-witted people who brighten up the day by their swift responses.
Last week a fan of singer Taylor Swift posted what he/she assumed was a rhetorical question:
“Name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift.”
And so Twitter users did – resulting in many thousands of tweets about history’s “baddest bitches”, including many unsung heroines. Here’s just a few examples:
Jeanne de Clisson, murderous French aristocrat-turned-pirate who named her ship My Revenge after the French king executed her husband. She spent the next decade killing all the French crews she encountered, sparing only 1 sailor to relay her message of vengeance (@greg_jenner)
Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya: her husband was killed by the Nazis in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. She went to the Soviet gov’t and demanded to get a tank to kill Nazis. The gov’t relented and she killed Nazis with her tank. (@shonan_naminori)
Julie d’Aubigny was a French opera singer/swordswoman in the 1600s who killed over ten men in duels over other women and once took holy vows so she could break into a nunnery, sleep with a blonde nun, then burned the church down and escaped with her (@Swordwields)
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