None of these women were drinking Pepsi

April 11, 2017 1:21 PM

Just a wee thread of women who truly don't have any time for your shit. (SLTwitter)
posted by MartinWisse (20 comments total)

Don’t try to win me back, Twitter.
posted by Going To Maine at 1:34 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

I love all the folks chiming in. I needed this.

(I have no relationship of any kind with Twitter, luckily -- it's like some kind of foreign country I've seen pictures of, but never visited.)
posted by allthinky at 1:50 PM on April 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

this one of a teacher using a chalkboard with a giant hole from an explosion is just... I have no words.
posted by numaner at 1:56 PM on April 11, 2017 [9 favorites]

Chills and tears. My god, the courage and strength. The embodiment of exhortation.
posted by Caxton1476 at 2:15 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

This is my favorite picture of my mother, getting arrested at age 72 at a Moral Monday protest at the NC State Capitol, June 2013.
posted by MrMoonPie at 2:22 PM on April 11, 2017 [78 favorites]

Scrolled down a ways but the thread seemed to be missing Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Her machine killed fascists.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 2:23 PM on April 11, 2017 [4 favorites]

There seems to be quite a bit of overlap with a similar collection of images in the Guardian.
posted by James Scott-Brown at 2:27 PM on April 11, 2017

Simone Segouin is here to kill Nazis and chew bubblegum, and frankly, she's running out of Nazis.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:55 PM on April 11, 2017 [5 favorites]

Keshia Thomas not only has no time for their shit, she has no time for yours either, even if you're on her side.
posted by Etrigan at 3:16 PM on April 11, 2017 [7 favorites]

That picture of Iesha Evans is one of my all-time favorite photos.

Surely Bree Newsome should also be included.
posted by AFABulous at 3:34 PM on April 11, 2017 [15 favorites]

Jan Rose Kasmir by Marc Riboud, 1967 anti-Vietnam war demonstration (page in French)
posted by AFABulous at 3:37 PM on April 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

Unnamed Palestinian woman shouts at Israeli soldiers (2014)
posted by AFABulous at 3:44 PM on April 11, 2017 [3 favorites]

Photos like this are among the reasons why you'll never convince me that women are the "weaker sex." Men have to hide behind armor and weapons and "just following orders" while a woman challenges them with only her passion and bravery.
posted by AFABulous at 3:48 PM on April 11, 2017 [7 favorites]

I contributed with a picture of the Gulabi Gang, because fuck yes.
posted by XtinaS at 4:37 PM on April 11, 2017 [3 favorites]

Someone (or someone's) who knows how to go about it could put together a coffee-table book with all these photos (and more), with the name of the woman or women in the photos, the news story/context, the photog credits. Title it Nevertheless, She Persisted. I'd buy it.
posted by tzikeh at 5:37 PM on April 11, 2017 [22 favorites]

I'd back that Kickstarter.
posted by XtinaS at 5:46 PM on April 11, 2017

These are great.
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:15 PM on April 11, 2017

I loved the one further down the thread of the girl captioned "Fuck this war, I'm going to school".
posted by arcticseal at 8:26 PM on April 11, 2017 [1 favorite]

All of these are wonderful, but this one of Jasmin Golubovska is my favorite. This, folks, is sangfroid.
posted by bryon at 11:45 PM on April 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

This one's my favourite (this link has the photographer credit).
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:39 AM on April 12, 2017 [2 favorites]