Three women you admire, GO!

[SilentCom]

I can't really think of any women that I admire off the top of my head. There are very few people I truly admire.

 

[lonely tylenol]

Here are mine:

Spoiler: Nancy Spungen

Spoiler: Courtney Love

Spoiler: Yoko Ono

Well look at you, less than a month and already posting stuff. Congratulations, I guess.
My three women are better than your women:
Florence Welch
Gwen Stacy
aaand my mom, the late Mrs. Saint-Martin.

No way, my three women are better. Well maybe not better than Florence Welch or your mom. But who is Gwen Stacy?

 

[lonely tylenol]

_DAMN]

Ignore this post, I'm still getting used to this.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Yoko Ono is a ***** who broke up the Beatles, not someone to be admired.

Yeah well, whenever that dickhead who murdered her husband (and they did love each other) is put up for parole (which unfortunately has to happen as they can't all say "fuck him just leave him there" which is lame) she has to go to them and and remind them of the fucking atrocity he did, and she has to go through it all over again. So yeah I can see why he admires her.

 

[AgentNein]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

 

[Ickorus]

My sister for her tenacity, our family is very poor and we live in the arse end of nowhere yet she managed to scrape up the money to go to university and complete her degree with first class honors.

Robin Hobb for being an amazing writer.

And I can't think of a third currently but i'll update this if I do.

Oh and if anyone was going to ask about my mother i'll save them time, I love my mother dearly but I don't admire how she's spent her life.

 

[AgentNein]

*snip*

Off topic for a second, but your damned profile pic had me flicking at my computer screen for thirty seconds till I realized it wasn't an actual bug.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

I guess I chose those three mainly because they are always misinterpreted and misunderstood. Yoko Ono comes up in a conversation: "she broke up The Beatles". No she didn't (much), and no one ever thinks the most important thing: John Lennon was happy with her and madly in love. So does Courtney Love, everyone thinks she is some junkie murderer. I think she is a pretty decent musician, and Kurt Cobain never complained about her.

I own every Hole album. ^^ I love her music. Celebrity Skin and Nobody's Daughter (the albums) are my favorites.

I respect Yoko (the Beatles were breaking up with or without her), but I never cared for her music. She was a great artist (her installations and performance pieces, not her music), though.

 

[trooper6]

What caused the break up of the Beatles?

Not Yoko, but the death of Brian Epstein.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

 

[Chemical Alia]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

Wait, the level designer? If you're talking about who I'm thinking of, she went to the same grad school as me briefly before dropping out, and that was not a woman. By any stretch. I'm not aware of her internet identity, but this strikes me as odd.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

Wait, the level designer? If you're talking about who I'm thinking of, she went to the same grad school as me briefly before dropping out, and that was not a woman. By any stretch. I'm not aware of her internet identity, but this strikes me as odd.

She is a male to female transgender. :3

 

[Chemical Alia]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

Wait, the level designer? If you're talking about who I'm thinking of, she went to the same grad school as me briefly before dropping out, and that was not a woman. By any stretch. I'm not aware of her internet identity, but this strikes me as odd.

She is a male to female transgender. :3

Ah, then she must be the same person, that would make sense. Interesting.

 

[lonely tylenol]

What caused the break up of the Beatles?

Not Yoko, but the death of Brian Epstein.

Also the discontent of George Harrison. Everyone's artistic talent eventually grew and got better. One group with 4 geniuses can't last long.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

She is a male to female transgender. :3

Ah, then she must be the same person, that would make sense. Interesting.

I didn't even know she was a transgender until I looked her up on Wikipedia, I wouldn't have guessed. I knew she was a lesbian, mind. Not that that fact explains the transgender thing, but it made sense. I guess.

Still. She's a woman now and I admire her as a game designer very much.

 

[cbert]

Anna Anthropy

Didn't even THINK of Auntie Pixelante. Great pick. She's my number four, outspoken controversial prolific genius indie game designer. Wish I could makes games half as fun as hers tend to be.

Her philosophies, and her tenacity... she truly has the mind of a genius. Thanks for noticing who she was! (Though I had to look up her real name on Wikipedia, that's embarrassing.)

This thread is making me aware of some amazing people...

On a side note, I understand if it takes a lot for you to say you truly "admire" someone. I'm curious what your criteria are. If someone inspires me through their work or actions, then I admire them.

I admire quite a few people. I consider this a strength. One quality I admire is courage, out of ethical responsibility, empathy, or artistic motivation, to take action which is unpopular with society and out of sync with what is expected of you.

Most of the women listed in these pages fit that criteria, and have accomplished extraordinary things - whether it's Faith47's freedom charter or Kate Marsden's epic 2000-mile trek across Siberia or Hildegaard von Bingen's musically-stirring middle finger to the religious authorities.

I don't need to use claims of subverting patriarchy to justify lesser accomplishments; these people have done amazing things.

 

[Davey Woo]

Admire as in, think they're awesome people and like what they do? Or admire as in, want to have sex with them?

If the former, then I can't really think of any to be honest, and I couldn't think of any men either. The latter, I'm gonna need more than 3 choices.

 

[lonely tylenol]

Here are mine:

Spoiler: Nancy Spungen

Spoiler: Courtney Love

Spoiler: Yoko Ono

Courtney Love: Because it takes guts to murder your famous husband and make it look like suicide so you can be in the limelight.

Yoko Ono: Because come on, she singlehandedly ruined the single greatest musical group ever formed!


Ok, ok. My 3:

1. Soledad O'Roark: Heroine of Those Who Walk In Darkness. A S.W.A.T. officer whose job it is to hunt down the x-men, basically.

2. Samus Aran: In spite of that whole Other M debacle, she *STILL* kicks ass.

3. Chell: Seriously, you can't keep this woman down!

At least my three women exist.

 

[La Barata]

Yeah, that really does say something about our generation, doesn't it, when 3/4 of the women mentioned in this thread are video game charactes

 

[Lukeje]

Yeah, that really does say something about our generation, doesn't it, when 3/4 of the women mentioned in this thread are video game charactes

Not really. It says something about the members of your generation who frequent a gaming magazine's website.