Bar the Bull
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Britain has the habit of producing truly remarkable women. Who do you think is the Greatest British Female?
British Women Of Our Lifetime
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Griffin
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As there was no option for me to vote for me, I haven't voted :lol:
BrianH
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In the absence of Helen Mirren, I've gone for Carol
Bar the Bull
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Good vote. I saw her get 729 from six small numbers last week. A feat that surely beats setting a World Record for the marathon without the assistance of drugs, grooming John Major, sitting on your arse in a palace for fifty years, or riding the arse off James Hewitt.
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Ardross
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Where is Cherie ? :lol:
Bar the Bull
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Off with Foster flat-hunting in Bristol.
Relkeel
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Ardross
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Ardross
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:lol:
Boadicea (or Boudicca, if you must) - Wheels on Fire I
Queen Lizzie the Oneth - balls of steel
Mary Wolstonecraft - forerunner of Suffragettes and Wimmin's Lib
Marie Curie - whose work cannot be overestimated
Edith Cavell - proving women could be (dead) war heroes, too
Florence Nightingale - maybe slightly oversentimentalised, but brought enduring basic standards of hygiene and cleanliness to nursing
Amelia Earhart et al - brave aviatrices, every bit as ballsy as the blokes
Sheila van Damm - Wheels on Fire II
Margaret Thatcher - as our first female PM, breaking the mould(iness) of political patriarchy
Dozens in the Arts: painting, pottery, sculpture (Hepworth, Frink), poetry, writing, theatre, dance/choreography, fashion, design...
Dozens in sports: showjumping, tennis, swimming, horse-racing (eventually), track and field, yachting, mountaineering, endurance...
It's necessarily a crimped list because of the nasty impositions placed upon women for centuries by a self-protective patriarchal society in thrall to the combined might of Church and State, then just the State, then just a load of crusty committees and clubs, and finally, no-one at all. Given that men had several centuries' head start in these matters, we ain't done bad, girls!
Queen Lizzie the Oneth - balls of steel
Mary Wolstonecraft - forerunner of Suffragettes and Wimmin's Lib
Marie Curie - whose work cannot be overestimated
Edith Cavell - proving women could be (dead) war heroes, too
Florence Nightingale - maybe slightly oversentimentalised, but brought enduring basic standards of hygiene and cleanliness to nursing
Amelia Earhart et al - brave aviatrices, every bit as ballsy as the blokes
Sheila van Damm - Wheels on Fire II
Margaret Thatcher - as our first female PM, breaking the mould(iness) of political patriarchy
Dozens in the Arts: painting, pottery, sculpture (Hepworth, Frink), poetry, writing, theatre, dance/choreography, fashion, design...
Dozens in sports: showjumping, tennis, swimming, horse-racing (eventually), track and field, yachting, mountaineering, endurance...
It's necessarily a crimped list because of the nasty impositions placed upon women for centuries by a self-protective patriarchal society in thrall to the combined might of Church and State, then just the State, then just a load of crusty committees and clubs, and finally, no-one at all. Given that men had several centuries' head start in these matters, we ain't done bad, girls!
Diminuendo
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Why isn't Gee Armytage or Rosemary Henderson on that list? :lol:
Dims - they'd certainly appear on MINE (under the sporting section) as groundbreakers. I couldn't put any of the latter-day royal females on the list, and I've only put on Margaret Thatcher as a groundbreaker (for this country - of course, we were beaten to the draw by Sri Lanka, India, and Israel, for goodness' sake, before we got to grips with a female leader).
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Gearoid
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There is a part of me through my teenage years that always looked up to this great British woman......
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Gearoid
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I know Kri but she just sums up innocent teenage wanking and boy did I do a lot of it.