The Suffragettes just straight up killed people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign

Carrie a Nation was part of the temperance movement and would destroy bars and saloons with a hatchet. At least thirty times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

Lyudmila Pavlichenko didn't fuck around or cut corners. She shot fascists. Hundreds of them. Also, met Eleanor Roosevelt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

The Night Witches dealt with fascists using the world's original stealth bombers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

Judith used a sword

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes

The Gulabi Gang beat rapists with sticks

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/4/gulabi-gang-indias-women-warriors

Kurdish Women in the Peshmerga fought and contributed to the destruction of ISIS. Front line, machine guns in hand.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/peshmerga-female-fighters-frontline-sideline

Harriet Tubman carried a gun and lead Union troops as a scout during the Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Scouting_and_the_Combahee_River_Raid

Feel free to add on and pass it around. There's like 180 million women in this country and we only need to radicalize thirty or forty thousand of them.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's unfortunate that it is so poorly recorded, but look at any revolutionary movement, especially those in the third world and in indigenous areas, and you'll find women on the forefront of the struggle, armed and fighting like their male counterparts. Even in Europe the women tend to be the spark that ignites the revolutionary blaze.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_war

    Edit: forgot this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_who_led_a_revolt_or_rebellion

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      When the people who aren't filled with testosterone are the ones that switch to violence the gloves come off in a movement, they are traditionally viewed as the calming voice, when they decide fighting is justified things escalate more than ever before.