Kevin's Watch

last night i had the bright idea to start a Fannie Lou Hamer thread in the Tank but i decided this topic would be more expansive!
i took 2 courses of Women in US History and found out about a lot of women who's names i'd never HEARD before in any history course. i thought it might make an interesting topic....not limited to US History either.

and first on MY list is
Fannie Lou Hamer, delegate to the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

www.beejae.com/hamer.htm

i consider it my responsibility as a woman to keep this thread afloat!!


next up...

Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, first woman Cabinet member

www.wa.gov/esd/ui/ui101/frances.htm

don't you have some ironing to do?

carefuly young man...i'll sic the ghost of Alice Paul on you!!!

Lucimay wrote:Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, first woman Cabinet member

Her I've heard of.

Points for Prom_STar

Alice Paul, Luimay you just made me smile. Studied and read US history for over 40 yrs. never heard of her until the made for HBO movie Iron jawed angels. A truly stellar performance by Hillary Swank. Another, character from the movie almost as improtant Alice Paul was Inez Millholand.

nuff for now

big points for you Prom_Star!!!

i asked a group of my coworkers (and these are people with COLLEGE DEGREES!!) to name 3 famous men...they had no problem coming up with the likes of T Jefferson, MLK, Cpt John Smith, so on and so forth...
for Women they came up with answers like

"uh, Pochahantas, i don't know what she did but i know they put her on a quarter for it!" arg. that was Sacagawea dipthong and it was a dollar.

"betsy ross" now THERE'S an important woman in US history. sheesh.

"that woman who did the underground railroad thing. didn't she start the red cross too?"


something is SERIOUSLY WRONG with US educational system folks!!

taraswizard wrote:Alice Paul, Luimay you just made me smile. Studied and read US history for over 40 yrs. never heard of her until the made for HBO movie Iron jawed angels. A truly stellar performance by Hillary Swank. Another, character from the movie almost as improtant Alice Paul was Inez Millholand.

nuff for now

YEA!!! somebody who knows Alice!!! what a woman!!!
(movie was fairly well portrayed, i thought, but not much publicized )
anjelica houston was great in that too!!

Lucimay wrote:something is SERIOUSLY WRONG with US educational system folks!!

Unfortunately, ignorance of history is only the tip of that ice berg...

Prom_STar wrote:

Lucimay wrote:something is SERIOUSLY WRONG with US educational system folks!!

Unfortunately, ignorance of history is only the tip of that ice berg...

now right you are P_S!!! my skills at math are a testiment to THAT!!

There are so many more famous men to pick from. Most things that have been done have been done by men (except those "first woman to..." things, they don't count though)

you have been brainwashed, Nathan.

Props on the use of the Borg smiley.

call me pedantic but if hardly anyone has heard of them then they cant be famous can they.

but i wont crap on your thread luci, and i will endeavour to find a woman worthy of a mention.

tazzyjoe wrote:call me pedantic but if hardly anyone has heard of them then they cant be famous can they.

but i wont crap on your thread luci, and i will endeavour to find a woman worthy of a mention.

well there IS supposed to be some IRONY in the title of the thread, there Tazz. sarcasim. heard of it?

irony? nah my girlfriend does all my irony.and my mother before her. gotta get those shirts nice and flat.

oh you are so cruisin for a bruisin, young man!!!

tazzyjoe wrote:call me pedantic but if hardly anyone has heard of them then they cant be famous can they.

but i wont crap on your thread luci, and i will endeavour to find a woman worthy of a mention.

and i CAN'T call you pedantic if you're NOT THINKING!!!

How about this lady:

www.galafilm.com/1812/e/people/secord.html

We learned about her (slightly) in history class-all that's left are nice little chocolat shops with her name on them; but she was a pretty remarkable young lady.

drew wrote:How about this lady:

www.galafilm.com/1812/e/people/secord.html

We learned about her (slightly) in history class-all that's left are nice little chocolat shops with her name on them; but she was a pretty remarkable young lady.

nice one drew!

here's Laura!