Post by burrunjor on Apr 24, 2023 12:11:52 GMT
I thought this might be a fun and interesting thread. Post here any stories from history or recently, of real life badass women. I'm going to do one for guys, and one for animals too btw, but I thought I'd start with the girls, as obviously they have been a bit more overlooked from a historical perspective.
A few examples I have are this.
I'll start with this woman, an 82 year old who beat the shit out of a Burglar that tried to break into her house. Honestly this is the type of thing that even if you had a female hero like Xena do this in her 80s people would say "come on that's ridiculous!"
Safe to say her grand children probably don't get bullied at school after this.
Second meanwhile is UFC fighter Polyana Viana who beat the crap out of a mugger! She not only bust his face open, but held him a choker hold until the cops arrived. Of course I could fill this list up with women athletes and fighters like big Gina, but I felt this girl deserved a special mention because she took down a real criminal, not that the likes of Rousey and Carano couldn't either I'm sure, but this was a vicious street fight and the guy was armed too. This is proper Xena shit.
A historical figure meanwhile is Khutulun.
This is how an article described her life story.
In the 13th century, when khans ruled Central Asia and you couldn’t go 10 minutes without some Genghis, Kublai or Mongke trying to take over your steppe, women were well-versed in badassery. In a society where skill on a horse and with a bow and arrow was more important than brute strength, Mongol women made just as stout herders and warriors as their men.
One woman, however, had the combination of both skill and might. Her name was Khutulun, and she was not only a devastating cavalrywoman but one of the greatest wrestlers the Mongols had ever seen.
Born around 1260 to the ruler of a swathe of what is now western Mongolia and China, she helped her father repel — repeatedly — the invading hordes commanded by the mighty Khublai Khan, who also happened to be her great uncle. Her favorite tactic was to seize an enemy soldier and ride off with him, the explorer Marco Polo recounted, “as deftly as a hawk pounces on a bird.”
Off the battlefield and in the wrestling ring, Khutulun went similarly undefeated. She declared that she wouldn’t marry any man who couldn't beat her in a wrestling match; those who lost would have to give her their prized horses. Suffice it to say, Khutulun had a lot of horses. By the time she was in her 20s and a spinster by Mongol standards, her parents pleaded with her to throw a match with one particularly eligible bachelor.
According to Polo, she initially agreed, but once in the ring found herself unable to break the habit of a lifetime and surrender. She overpowered her suitor who, humiliated, fled; she eventually chose a husband from among her father’s men and married him without submitting him to the evidently impossible challenge to out-wrestle her.
Anybody else's dick explode reading her life story?
A few examples I have are this.
I'll start with this woman, an 82 year old who beat the shit out of a Burglar that tried to break into her house. Honestly this is the type of thing that even if you had a female hero like Xena do this in her 80s people would say "come on that's ridiculous!"
Safe to say her grand children probably don't get bullied at school after this.
Second meanwhile is UFC fighter Polyana Viana who beat the crap out of a mugger! She not only bust his face open, but held him a choker hold until the cops arrived. Of course I could fill this list up with women athletes and fighters like big Gina, but I felt this girl deserved a special mention because she took down a real criminal, not that the likes of Rousey and Carano couldn't either I'm sure, but this was a vicious street fight and the guy was armed too. This is proper Xena shit.
A historical figure meanwhile is Khutulun.
This is how an article described her life story.
In the 13th century, when khans ruled Central Asia and you couldn’t go 10 minutes without some Genghis, Kublai or Mongke trying to take over your steppe, women were well-versed in badassery. In a society where skill on a horse and with a bow and arrow was more important than brute strength, Mongol women made just as stout herders and warriors as their men.
One woman, however, had the combination of both skill and might. Her name was Khutulun, and she was not only a devastating cavalrywoman but one of the greatest wrestlers the Mongols had ever seen.
Born around 1260 to the ruler of a swathe of what is now western Mongolia and China, she helped her father repel — repeatedly — the invading hordes commanded by the mighty Khublai Khan, who also happened to be her great uncle. Her favorite tactic was to seize an enemy soldier and ride off with him, the explorer Marco Polo recounted, “as deftly as a hawk pounces on a bird.”
Off the battlefield and in the wrestling ring, Khutulun went similarly undefeated. She declared that she wouldn’t marry any man who couldn't beat her in a wrestling match; those who lost would have to give her their prized horses. Suffice it to say, Khutulun had a lot of horses. By the time she was in her 20s and a spinster by Mongol standards, her parents pleaded with her to throw a match with one particularly eligible bachelor.
According to Polo, she initially agreed, but once in the ring found herself unable to break the habit of a lifetime and surrender. She overpowered her suitor who, humiliated, fled; she eventually chose a husband from among her father’s men and married him without submitting him to the evidently impossible challenge to out-wrestle her.
Anybody else's dick explode reading her life story?
