So, this tweet from Twitter user @xnulz went viral over the weekend after she asked people to “Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift”:
Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift ??? pic.twitter.com/AkSyQBUIME
— Nick (@z3lIus) November 10, 2017
Well, she did ask and Twitter was quick to provide here with a few suggestions.
Here are some of the better ones we’ve seen:
Hannah Szenes was a paratrooper during WWII from British Palestine, dropped into Hungary to help smuggle out Jews. She was captured and tortured. She never revealed any information to the Nazis. She was executed by firing squad. Her poetry survives. https://t.co/O8I9ZpJ42Y
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 4, 2017
Clara Barton helped wounded men on both sides of the Civil War. She then ran the Office of Missing Soldiers and helped locate nearly 22,000 missing men. She founded the American Red Cross and lobbied for women's and civil rights. https://t.co/O8I9ZpJ42Y
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 4, 2017
At 12, Virginia Disney was diagnosed w Polio & told she’d never walk again. She did. At 25, she was hit in a head on collision by a drunk driver & told she’d never walk again…again. She did. She then became an OR nurse & a top selling Century 21 realtor in the 70’s & 80’s. https://t.co/gHeGkIVtp6
— Andrea Caruso (@AndreaNRuth) December 4, 2017
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a sniper for the Red Army in WWII. She had over 300 confirmed Nazi kills & honored by FDR Eleanor Roosevelt at WH https://t.co/YwAAeUuzlz
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 3, 2017
Susan B. Anthony was a leading anti-slavery crusader and worked with Harriet Tubman on the underground railroad. She founded the National Women Suffrage Association and was prosecuted for attempting to vote. https://t.co/O8I9ZpJ42Y
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 4, 2017
Recommended
https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/937443448961069056
Franceska Mann, a Polish Jew, accomplished dancer, 26, who, when asked to disrobe for delousing at #Auschwitz, wrestled the gun from SS officer, shot him dead, wounded another, before being gunned down. https://t.co/8aQp6HP354
— Scott Ferson (@scottferson) December 3, 2017
Rufina Gasheva was a navigator for the Night Witches, an all women combat bomber squadron that flew obsolete biplanes in night bombing raids against Nazi forces.
She survived being shot down twice, escaping a minefield the second time, and got married on the Front. https://t.co/spKwaNF88p
— Generic Soy Milk (@EmilyGorcenski) December 2, 2017
Carlota, a slave woman, took up the machete in 1843 to lead a slave uprising at the Triumvirato sugar mill in Matanzas Province and was killed. She was one of the 3 leaders of the rebellion. Her name was later given to Cuba’s 1980’s operation Black Carlota in Southern Africa. https://t.co/b6i4dg1RT0
— George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) December 2, 2017
As a child, Harriet Tubman had her skull crushed in by a slave owner, was left w/o medical attention for 2 days, + then was returned to working the fields. She went on to rescue dozens of slaves + be the first woman to lead an armed assault during the CW. https://t.co/Swgus7BlRO
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) December 3, 2017
Elizabeth Freeman was the first enslaved Black person to sue for freedom & win. She ended slavery in Massachusetts. https://t.co/kAi4vxzrLY
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) December 3, 2017
Noor Inayat Khan was a half-Indian spy and wireless operator for British Special Operations Executive during the second World War. She operated in France and was betrayed and caught by the Germans who executed her in Dachau https://t.co/5bp7OeYWAz
— STEMLORD with Delusions of Grandeur (@upulie) December 4, 2017
Others listed family members as “badder” than Taylor Swift:
My grandmother worked for the OSS in London during WW2 as a code breaker. https://t.co/K5gQJxRr2A
— Mark Frost (@mfrost11) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/nadabakos/status/937460069641412608
https://twitter.com/mrBobbyBones/status/937380070779473921
My grandma once took four trips into a burning stable to haul her terrified pigs out, one by one. https://t.co/vcYAETK9KG
— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) December 3, 2017
My grandmother escaped Iraq when she was 19 y/o with her baby, after her father was executed for being Jewish, got to Israel where she didn’t speak the language and had nothing but her clothes she was wearing. She had 12 kids in Israel, 50+ grandchildren. https://t.co/bwDxkFlp7o
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 4, 2017
My mom- who has #Alzheimers– that’s who. https://t.co/Kbxt8qEuav
— jann arden (@jannarden) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/JustineBateman/status/937525451748020225
I keep seeing this tweet everywhere, so FINE, here are some examples from my book: Tomoe Gozen (1157-1247) was a Japanese warrior who commanded 100,000 men in battle and could rip a man’s head off his body from horseback, lol https://t.co/WbhXaggoa7
— Hannah Jewell (@hcjewell) December 3, 2017
Or literally anyone else with a real job:
literally any woman MTA conductor https://t.co/iExOdz12wi
— J. Escobedo Shepherd (@jawnita) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/CarolineHirons/status/937372110783242240
https://twitter.com/russbengtson/status/937480108113350657
https://twitter.com/justinaireland/status/937438596566482950
And, of course, the savior of humanity gets a mention:
https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/937487744325918721
Haha.
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