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DutchessOfDork
03/05/09

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Second, while I have some empathy for Lady Di, she doesn't deserve to be in the Top 10.

My Top 10 (in no particular order)

- Elizabeth I

- Catherine the Great

- Maria Theresa (way smarter, capable than her well-intentioned by daft daughter Marie Antoinette)

- Katharine Hepburn

- Cleopatra

- Nefertiti

- Boudiccea

- Eleanor of Aquitaine

- Catherine of Aragon

- Mary Wollstonecroft
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DutchessOfDork
03/05/09

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Oh they didn't.

Mary Queen of Scots PLOTTED AGAINST ELIZABETH. She was kept as prisoner (I use that term loosely) for 20+ years before Elizabeth executed her for plotting. Grgh!

Marie Antoinette was not always unpopular with the French. SHE DID NOT SAY LET THEM EAT CAKE.

Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II do NOT belong on the same number of list. Elizabeth I defied conventions by not marrying, led the English against the Spanish Armada, spoke several languages and well educated. How is MADONNA number ONE?!
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LaComtesse
03/05/09

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Salome? REALLY About.com. You basically gave it to a ye olde stripper who is swayed by her mother to have a man beheaded. Awesome, about.com. I'm awaiting Jeffrey Dahmer being on your Top 100 Humanitarians list.
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kemperboyd
03/05/09

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Michelle Kwon above Margaret Thatcher (however much i despise her)?? Diana in the top ten makes me sick, she just married a prince...and now where is Emmeline Pankhurst or any other Suffergette leaders from any part of the globe. Where was Aung San Suu Ky or Benazir Bhutto?
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maggeimerc
03/05/09

@kemperboyd: Well to be fair, Bhutto was crazier then a peach orchard boar. I mean I was sad when she was murdered...but a role model she is not.
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kemperboyd
03/05/09

@maggeimerc: still if we are talking in history, she was the first woman elected leader of an Islamic country, which is more important than being a figure skater who couldn't in gold.
Also why can't we pick an important female athlete, someone who has trully achived greatness, Chantel Petitclerc or Tami grey-Thompson maybe. Billie-Jean King or Martina Navaratalova.
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kemperboyd
03/05/09

@kemperboyd: sp: Tanni Grey-Thompson
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
03/05/09

@kemperboyd: Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
03/05/09

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What a bizarre list. Erma Bombeck? Really? Would Dave Barry make any list of hundred most important historical figures?
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littlemissvan
03/05/09

@chritter: The worst part of the Erma Bombeck listing was that the write up said that she represented women's lives. Or, maybe just American women's lives? Hello!
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
03/05/09

@littlemissvan: Or really, upper-middle-class American women's lives?

Look, I have nothing against Ms. Bombeck. I'm sure she'd chortle heartily at the notion that she's one of the hundred most significant female figures in history.
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Rare Affinity
03/05/09

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I can never take these league tables seriously.But they can be fun and an introduction to certain names I for one had never heard of before.
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Eric Northman is mine
03/05/09

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If Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is not on that list then yes it's bullshit. Dude, she's the first female African president specifically the President of Liberia. If that's not history making, i don't know what is.
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MargaretMoony
03/05/09

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BLAH. That was boring. As a historian I'm super pissed. Way to take all the life out of women's history!
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DutchessOfDork
03/05/09

@MargaretMoony is capstoned.:

I love royalty history so I think there are far more deserving Queens and leaders. Queen Elizabeth I =/= Queen Elizabeth II. They share names, that is ALL.
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Ailanthus-altissima
03/05/09

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I can't believe Michelle Kwan beat out Rachel Carson.
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Hamsterpants
03/05/09

@Ailanthus-altissima: Also, they couldn't find 100 REAL women? Rosie the Riveter is cool, but she ain't a real person. But since any kind of criteria for this list is obvs bullshit, here are MY top five "people" of all time:

5. Captain Crunch 4. Rocket J. Squirel 3. Spaceghost 2. Sherlock Holmes 1. Buffy
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/05/09

@Ailanthus-altissima: no kidding! and madonna is #1? what?! WHAT?!@Hamsterpants: oooh! ooh! i wanna play!

5)miss piggy

4)dr. byron orpheus

3)she-ra

2)anne of green gables

1)dr. frank n. furter
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stealthird
03/05/09

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Um, where are the Mirabal sisters? And Anna Akhmatova? And countless other women who shaped history, and were actual people? It sounds like this person did not do his/her research when putting together this list and just pulled in whatever names came to mind. I disapprove.
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Ailanthus-altissima
03/05/09

@stealthird: I love Akhmatova's poetry so much. The list was awful.
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disco2000
03/05/09

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This list seems to be based off of searches or page results or something - it's not compiled by historical experts or anything. It's annoying, yes, but obviously complete bullshit.

Can this be an open thread for Jezebel commenters to create their own list of the most awesome women ever, in no particular order?

First additions to my list:

Michelle Obama

J.K. Rowling
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kelsium
03/05/09

@disco2000: I did not read them all, so I have no idea if these are additions, but: Sappho, Elizabeth I
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kelsium
03/05/09

@kelsium: Nellie Bly
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JLady
03/05/09

@disco2000: I said this above, but Laura Secord and Nellie McClung!
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undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink
03/06/09

@disco2000: Alice Paul, Anne Boleyn (if you really look into some of the stuff she accomplished, you'll see that she was not the headless, husband-stealing whore she's usually portrayed as).
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velvet.fistfull of love
03/05/09

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Well that was rather predictable, narrow, and centered on women from Western history/consciousness.
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littlemissvan
03/05/09

@velvet.fistfull of love: I'm still going through it, but it seems incredibly American to me. Janet Reno, Barbara Walters, really?
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kelsium
03/05/09

@littlemissvan: Janet RENO? Fucknuggets.
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frankie22
03/05/09

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Marilyn Monroe was number 2?

A mentally fragile woman who was exploited by Hollywood, who had to give head to get ahead, whose intelligence was underestimated, and who died of a drug overdose is the second greatest woman in history.
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kelsium
03/05/09

@frankie22: Tits and ass beat actual accomplishments eight-hundred thousand times out of ten.
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BluebellaElliot
03/05/09

@frankie22: Well that just makes me down right sad.
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Hamsterpants
03/05/09

@frankie22: Well, naturally! If the Magical Tubes of the Interwebs say so, if must be true!
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PaintedTrollop
03/05/09

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So, Michelle Kwan is on the list, but not Alice Paul?

Sorry, this list officially sucks.
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JLady
03/05/09

@PaintedTrollop: No Laura Secord either, and she pretty much saved Canada during the War of 1812.
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Vivi21
03/05/09

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I'm not a big fan of having Madonna at #1 on the list. Sorry, but I don't think she measures up with people like Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, etc.

Also, while I agree with many of the selections on this list, I have to question some of the others. Some of the selections are a bit too pop-culture for me.
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/05/09

@Vivi21: yes! the trouble with including pop culture icons on a list like this is that not enough time has passed to tell whether or not they will be historically significant. although, if i had to guess, i'd say that the majority (michelle kwan? come on!) will not.
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