My favorite historical badasses are the pair of unnamed 12-year-old girls mentioned in Herbert Asbury's Barbary Coast, who rented a whore's cubicle in the upstairs area of a "Mexican fandango dive." One would lure a particularly skeevy and vile customer upstairs with the promise of severely underage sex, then, as he leaned in to grab her, the other would pop up from behind the door and knock him out with a slingshot. Then they'd rifle his pockets and roll him out the window; most of the men were never missed or never mourned, and the girls made a decent living and managed never to be molested. They're quite possibly the baddest-ass pair of 12-year-old girls in human history.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
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JZ - Oct 29, 2009 1:26:02 pm PDT #4737 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2009 2:52:37 pm PDT #4738 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Who's your favorite historical badass?
Ada Lovelace.
She was, too.
Laga - Oct 29, 2009 3:18:19 pm PDT #4739 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was going to say Tiddy Rosenfelt but Teppy's answer is soo much better.
SailAweigh - Oct 29, 2009 4:59:06 pm PDT #4740 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I keep seeing trailers for The Men Who Stare and Goats and I want to see that so bad! It looks hilarious. And the name, so Snakes on a Plane. It's gotta be good.
Strega - Oct 29, 2009 5:00:29 pm PDT #4741 of 30000
I want to see his historical badasses.
Many are here. I cannot try to pick a favorite, but anything involving Vikings is excellent.
§ ita § - Oct 29, 2009 5:03:44 pm PDT #4742 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Nelson Mandela is adamantium clad hardcore. Also, the Jamaican National Heroine called Nanny, an escaped slave rumoured to have freed 800 after her escape always captured my imagination. She ran a town of escaped slaves that after her death ended up signing a treaty with the British to remain free even before slavery was abolished. They were just that much trouble to deal with.
sj - Oct 29, 2009 5:07:53 pm PDT #4743 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Who's your favorite historical badass?
Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Kathy A - Oct 29, 2009 6:14:09 pm PDT #4744 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Definitely Eleanor. Also, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
Sean K - Oct 29, 2009 7:20:35 pm PDT #4745 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Rasputin. I like the crazy badasses.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2009 7:22:25 pm PDT #4746 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Victoria Woodhull. Political, yet slutty.