It's Internation Women's Day!

Let's celebrate our favourite, most prominent and successful women on this thread.

Women make up nearly (but not quite) 50% of all the people on the planet, so they're obviously very important.

To get us started, here is a picture of renowned feminist and actress (or "female actor" if you prefer) Emma Watson:

Here's somebody who should be an inspiration to women all over the globe: Our very first female Prime Minister - Margaret Thatcher:

This lady is my absolute heroine. It's 'George Eliot' or rather Mary Ann Evans who became the most eminent Victorian novelist in the 1880s and wrote what is widely considered to be the finest English-language novel ever, Middlemarch.

Thought that was an old photo of Jay rayner

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Here's the anti-Fascist online political campaigner (and ex-pop star) Lily Allen:

Lily Allen?????

She doesn't look like she knows what a sandwich is never mind make one

It's been postponed until tomorrow. They haven't got ready yet.

They were all going to a rally but the top woman's husband left the hand brake on in the car too tight.

Here is popular anti-fascist and political activist Jk Rowling (she also wrote a few books about a school for wizards) an absolute must for recognition on this fantastic day of celebration.

And to think the fit weather presenters got almost 4x as many replies!

It was heartwarming to see the Sisterhood campaigning for the right to retire at the same age as men.

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"WHAT DO WE WANT"?

"EQUALITY!"

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?"

".... er, just when it suits us"

TheFamilyCat wrote:It was heartwarming to see the Sisterhood campaigning for the right to retire at the same age as men.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39206302" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"WHAT DO WE WANT"?

"EQUALITY!"

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?"

".... er, just when it suits us"

"Women have said they were discriminated against during their working lives due to the gender pay gap."

So they want to finish early as a result??

When is it international mens day
I can't wait

Stacky_claret wrote:When is it international mens day
I can't wait

November apparently

Tough day for women today after yesterday's celebrations - double the ironing and cleaning !

Here's an interesting woman:

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I read her book but I wouldn't recommend it.

How about Countess Markievicz, a revolutionary, suffragette and the first woman elected to the House of Commons?

She was born into enormous wealth but gave it all away and died 'amongst the poor, where she wanted to be'.

Stacky_claret wrote:When is it international mens day
I can't wait

We get the other 364. Seems fair.

Stacky_claret wrote:When is it international mens day
I can't wait

19th November. What do you have planned?

I know Rowls is just acting out with this thread, because he thinks he's upsetting libruls[/i], but instead of suggesting a woman who can divide opinions, how about one of whom there really is only one correct opinion.


Neerja Bhanot

Bhanot was the senior flight purser on Pan Am Flight 73 flying from Mumbai to the United States, which was hijacked by four armed men on 5 September 1986 at Karachi airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was carrying 361 passengers and 19 crew members. The terrorists wanted to fly to Cyprus with the goal of freeing Palestinian prisoners in Cyprus. Bhanot was able to alert the cockpit crew as soon as the hijackers boarded the plane, and as the plane was on the tarmac, the three-member cockpit crew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer left the aircraft through an overhead hatch in the cockpit. As the senior-most cabin crew member, Bhanot took charge of the situation inside the plane.

The hijackers were part of the Abu Nidal Organization, a terrorist organization backed by Libya; they were targeting Americans and American assets. In the early minutes of the hijacking, they identified an American citizen, dragged him to the exit, shot him dead and threw his body on to the tarmac. The terrorists then instructed Bhanot to collect the passports of all the passengers so that they could identify the other Americans on board. She and the other attendants under her charge hid the passports of the 41 Americans on board; some under a seat and the rest down a rubbish chute so that the hijackers could not differentiate between American and Non-American passengers.

After 17 hours, the hijackers opened fire and set off explosives. Bhanot opened one of the airplane doors, and started helping the other passengers escape. According to a surviving passenger, "She was guiding the passengers to the emergency exit. That is when the terrorists were firing constantly fearing a commando attack. They saw Neerja relentlessly trying to help the passengers out and that is when they caught her by her ponytail and shot her point blank."She was shot while shielding 3 American children from a hail of gunfire from the terrorists. Out of a total of 41 American passengers, two were killed during the hijacking. A child on board, then aged seven, is now a captain for a major airline and has stated that Bhanot has been his inspiration, and that he owes every day of his life to her. She was recognized internationally as "the heroine of the hijack" and became the youngest recipient of the Ashok Chakra Award, India's most prestigious gallantry award for bravery during peace time.

In addition to saving the lives of many hostages, Bhanot had also helped prevent the plane from getting off the ground. She posthumously received multiple awards for her courage from the United States government, and the Tamgha-e-Insaniyat from Pakistan, an award given for showing great human kindness. The hijack had occurred just two days before her twenty-third birthday.

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Rowls wrote:Here's somebody who should be an inspiration to women all over the globe: Our very first female Prime Minister - Margaret Thatcher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJoj9IqeKg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

there's more top drawer minge on the internet than you can shake a stick at, and some gimp sticks a pic of Thatcher up.....that's not a piece of ass its a dead crone.

fatboy47 wrote:there's more top drawer minge on the internet than you can shake a stick at, and some gimp sticks a pic of Thatcher up.....that's not a piece of ass its a dead crone.

Follow the link

She stole my milk. Not the brave air stewardess lady , the other horrible cow one

Rowls

Margaret Thatcher was not a woman

Neither was she a man

The funeral at the cremetorium had to be suspended as the coffin would not burn - as it moved through the curtains they re-opened and the coffin started to move the other way back towards the congregation.

These are all facts.

Another fact is that they don't burn the body as part of the crematorium service. Which rather contradicts your fact, doesn't it.

dsr wrote:Another fact is that they don't burn the body as part of the crematorium service. Which rather contradicts your fact, doesn't it.

at my brother-in-law's funeral in December I distinctly saw dark gray smoke pluming from the crematorium chimney. What was that - squirrels?

dsr wrote:Another fact is that they don't burn the body as part of the crematorium service. Which rather contradicts your fact, doesn't it.

Errr not really....its irrelevant to the fact that the coffin started moving away from the curtains back to the devil worshipers !!

It`s also quite refreshing that out of the all the facts in my post you only picked up on this small technicality !!