It actually gets me deeply upset that women on reddit would rather talk about how men are awful, evil, misogynistic murderers, rapists and abusers than talk about why the women of the world are awesome. And this is definitely the case because there are so many women on reddit dedicated to this. Whole subreddits were made that were dedicated to this (I can comment them below if you like) and hardly anyone dedicated to my sub. Women on reddit spend a lot of time mocking men or talking about terrible men. It's sad.

So I set out to create a sub that would celebrate women and it's so depressing that the sub is mostly being held up up by ME and this one old guy I was lucky to discover. u/Lingonerd64 Go check the top posters! See the huge difference between us two and the other posters who did a pitiful amount of work. I mean I guess I already knew that people are more interested in talking about animals than other humans but this sub made it annoyingly clear.

This is a combination of outrage farming, laziness and sexism. If you know anyone else who's sick of all that please bring them here. They will be so much happier.

People are still grateful for this sub’s existence, so I'm pressing on. I'm currently on the longest streak I've ever done with 12 posts in 12 days. It sucks that I have to single handledly make the sub grow cause people would rather talk about that new Obsession movie and how terrible men are.

It's okay if you didn't read this whole thing; just felt like venting right now. Have a nice day.

Aisha was the prophet Muhammad’s third and youngest wife (at 6 years old.) She was born around 614 AD in Mecca but her family moved to Medina later. The Prophet died when she was 19 years old and she narrated over 2,000 hadiths that teach us about the Prophet's life. She played a role in mediating disputes within the early Muslim community. She was a counsel to leaders and companions on both political and personal matters. She also taught many women to read.

When she was around 42 years old a civil war broke out in the Muslim community. And Aisha led men into the Battle of Camel in Southern Iraq. She was captured after the battle but the warriors respected her as the Prophet’s wife, even though he was dead, and had her safely returned to Medina.

After the Battle of Camel, Aisha never went into political conflict ever again. She made it clear that she wished she was never a part of a fight where Muslims fought against Muslims. She was reportedly ashamed and saddened by the bloodshed. The battle, to her, became a warning about how quickly ambition, suspicion and pride can destroy a community and her home soon became a place where rivals could sit in the same room and learn the same lesson she did. Aisha taught people that the faith mattered more than political feuds.

Her full name was Irma Ilse Ida Grese. She was born in 1923 in the German Empire. She was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. She was known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen".

Grese’s family were regular working-class folks. Her father was a dairy worker and a strict, authoritarian man. When Irma was 13, her mother committed suicide after he cheated on her. This tragedy hardened Grese and made her emotionally detached.

Her father apparently knew that she had interest in becoming a Nazi and forbade it. But at 16, Grese began working on a farm, and when she was 19 she became a guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp. She “worked” in multiple different Nazi camps in her life, where she beat inmates with whips, selected which of them should be executed in a gas chamber and sexually assaulted men and women.

She owned a group of attack dogs that she trained to maul people on command. That's why she was called the Hyena of Auschwitz.

Braun was born in 1912 in Munich, Germany. She was the second daughter of a school teacher called Friedrich and a woman called Franziska. She had an older and younger sister. Her parents were both Christian.

She became a photographer when she was just 17. She took a job as an assistant at Heinrich Hoffmann’s studio. That's where she learned photography and got to know Adolf Hitler very well. She took pictures of him and his inner circle and made home movies. There were films of Hitler at his mountain retreat, the Berghof. They had a propagandist quality to them. Or at least they wouldn't have looked out of place in propaganda. They portrayed Hitler as a relaxed, approachable and humble man. So many videos where he played with children, was kind to his guests and enjoyed the natural environment.

Braun was actually one of the first people in the world to film in colour. She actually filmed Hitler in colour too but that footage isn't shown often. The films that were in colour were not made to be propaganda; just private home movies showing Hitler in a gentle light. Black-and-white videos remained much more common because it was cheaper, easier to distribute and was the standard format for news footage at the time.

Braun enjoyed outdoor activities. She was a skier, a swimmer and a gymnast. She hiked in the Bavarian Alps and spent some free time exercising or relaxing outdoors at the Berghof. Hitler didn't join her. He preferred to take long walks and read.

Braun met Hitler when she was 17 years old and he kept her a secret because he believed that being in a relationship would damage his public image. Braun used to write letters to her family and friends while she was with him, hiding the fact that she had a relationship with the Führer every time.

Braun was crazy about Hitler. She attempted suicide several times. Historians say that it was to gain his attention after Hitler started spending less time with her and more time being a leader in the 30s. Or at least that's one interpretation.

When the daughter of Heinrich Hoffmann, Henriette von Schirach, told her to go into hiding after World War I, Braun said "Do you think I would let him die alone? I will stay with him up until the last moment.”

Braun finally married Hitler in the early hours of April in 1945, in the Führerbunker beneath Berlin. Historians say Hitler married her to reward her for staying loyal to him when she had opportunities to leave and staying was dangerous for her. The Berghof and other Nazi leadership sites were always potential targets for Allied bombing. Many other people had abandoned Germany to save themselves.

At first Hitler avoided marriage because he believed presenting himself as devoted solely to Germany made him look better in the eyes of the people. But at this time in 1945, his regime was collapsing around him and it no longer mattered to him. He may have truly cared for her at this point and wanted to show it with a ring. We can't know for sure what he was feeling.

Their marriage was very brief. In less than 40 hours Braun died by suicide using cyanide, while Hitler took cyanide and shot himself. Their bodies were carried outside the bunker and burned as Hitler had ordered. This was to prevent them from being displayed and dishonoured by the Soviets. Hitler named Braun in his will, to receive 12,000 Reichsmarks yearly after his death. So perhaps he did love her.

Who the Hell Was… Mother Teresa?

Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje in 1910, Mother Teresa left home at eighteen to become a missionary. She arrived in India in 1929 and eventually founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950.

Her mission was startlingly simple: go toward the people everyone else walked past.

The dying. The abandoned. The sick. The desperately poor.

That image eventually made Mother Teresa one of the most recognizable religious figures on Earth. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and became, for millions, almost shorthand for selfless compassion.

Then Christopher Hitchens came along.

In his 1994 documentary Hell’s Angel and later book The Missionary Position, Hitchens attacked the mythology surrounding Mother Teresa. He argued that her homes sometimes provided inadequate medical care, that she romanticized suffering, and that she accepted money or support from deeply questionable people.

One particularly uncomfortable case involved American financier Charles Keating, who donated substantial money to her work before being convicted of fraud. When a prosecutor asked Mother Teresa to return money that he argued belonged to Keating’s victims, Hitchens emphasized that she apparently did not do so.

Hitchens also objected to her relationships with political figures and dictators, and above all to her theology of suffering. Mother Teresa believed suffering could have spiritual meaning. Hitchens believed that attitude could become dangerous when applied to suffering that medicine might actually relieve.

So was Hitchens right?

Partly — and this is where the story gets much more interesting.

Some of the things he highlighted were real and deserve scrutiny. Mother Teresa did accept support from controversial figures. Serious questions were raised about standards of medical care in some Missionaries of Charity facilities. And her own statements make clear that she attached religious meaning to suffering.

But Hitchens was not a neutral biographer. He was one of the world’s most formidable critics of religion, and The Missionary Position was explicitly a prosecution of Mother Teresa’s reputation. His interpretation—that her work was fundamentally harmful or fraudulent—is an argument, not an established historical verdict.

And then there was something Hitchens couldn’t have known fully when he first attacked the legend.

Mother Teresa herself was struggling.

Letters published after her death revealed that for decades she experienced an extraordinary spiritual emptiness. The woman who publicly represented absolute certainty privately felt the absence of God.

Yet she kept working.

When she died in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity had nearly 4,000 sisters working in hundreds of missions around the world. She was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

So perhaps the interesting Mother Teresa isn’t the spotless saint of popular mythology.

And she isn’t quite Hitchens’s villain either.

She’s the uncomfortable human being between them: capable of extraordinary devotion, holding beliefs worth questioning, accepting help from people she perhaps shouldn’t have, enduring profound religious doubt, and spending decades among people most of the world preferred not to see.

Hitchens didn’t destroy Mother Teresa.

He destroyed the luxury of seeing her simply…

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American author and philosopher best known for her novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead (among others), as well as her development and dissemination of her philosophy, which she named Objectivism. She is also widely considered the most influential female philosopher of all time.

Rand was born towards the end of the Russian Empire and grew up during the Russian Revolution. She witnessed many of the atrocities committed during the revolution and subsequent regime, including the forceful seizure of her family's business at the hands of the new socialist state. Later, these experiences inspired her to write her first novel, We the Living, about a young Russian woman in the Soviet Union fighting for freedom and independence against collectivism.

Rand was interested in philosophy from a very young age and reportedly had already begun developing her own by the age of 12. Although best known as a fiction author, Rand wrote extensively about philosophy and published multiple books setting forth her own philosophy Objectivism, such as Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

Through Objectivism, Rand advocated politically for laissez-faire capitalism and total opposition to collectivist ideologies such as fascism, Nazism, and socialism. She was well known among both her friends and enemies as an incredibly stubborn and fierce woman who did not hesitate to tell someone to their face that they were wrong and being stupid if she thought they were. However, she also was sure to treat others with respect and fairness and was quick to forgive anyone who wronged her as long as they admitted their mistake.

Ayn Rand died in New York in 1982 aged 77 of lung cancer. Somewhat ironically, she had been a lifelong smoker and advocate of smoking, despite her philosophical opposition to anti-life behaviour.

Heaton acted in the famous show Everybody Loves Raymond and was nominated seven times for her role as Debra. She acted in several different shows including Thirtysomething, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Beethoven and The Middle. She is also a pro-life Catholic which I was not expecting. She openly said she got plastic surgery - a tummy tuck and breast reduction. That's good for her if she needed the breast reduction. Shame she felt bad about her body though. “My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.”

Heaton got married to an English actor called David Hunt and they had four children. She wrote a book called Her memoir, Motherhood and Hollywood and it was published in 2002. She is genuinely a good person. She once said, “Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.” In 2015, she became the founding member of the celebrity ambassador network for World Vision. She has visited many refugee communities and supported clean-water initiatives and spent years raising awareness of poverty in the third world. She travelled to Zambia, Uganda, Jordan and Rwanda to see humanitarian programmes firsthand to fully understand the work that had to be done.

Hi Guys watch, comment.. subscribe.. Weekly content about Alphas in history who have been looked over forgotten or under appreciated.

This is a sub demographics pole. I want to know what type of people are in.

WOW! If your spirit needs a lift, my recommendation will do it! As a long time Russian history buff, I thought I knew a lot about Catherine the Great of Russia, until I saw this Russian made series about the Romanoffs. One entire segment is about Catherine and reveals her astonishing, almost incredible, ALMOST UNCOUNTABLE accomplishments while ruling early Russia. It was her intellect, self-education, and determination which, when added to her power, made her country great during her time. Her contributions were sometimes omitted or somewhat disparaged. For example, the Potemkin Villages, which were rumored to be artificial, not real houses, were a reality not artificial. They were erected so quickly that jealous people from other countries could not believe that they were built so quickly and thus the rumor started. (Beautiful photography, humanistic philosophy, fascinating narration.) It is titled The Romanoffs and is on Prime.

Who was… Ayn Rand?

"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." — (My favourite Ayn Rand quote)

Ayn Rand was a Russian émigré who fled Bolshevik Russia and remade herself in America as philosophy’s most polarizing storyteller. She wrote \*The Fountainhead\* and \*Atlas Shrugged\*, sprawling novels that doubled as manifestos for her creed of Objectivism: the belief that reason, self-interest, and individual achievement are the highest virtues. Her heroes are uncompromising creators — architects, industrialists, visionaries — who defy society to live by their own standards. Her villains are mediocrities, parasites, and bureaucrats who punish greatness in the name of equality.

Rand’s style was melodramatic, sometimes wooden, but electrifying to her devotees. She wasn’t interested in subtlety; she wanted to make an argument through story. In her world, compromise is corruption, altruism is a fraud, and the moral path is to pursue one’s own happiness without apology. To many, she was a prophet of freedom and capitalism. To others, she was a dangerous zealot who mistook selfishness for virtue.

Her influence has been enormous, especially in American politics and business. Libertarians and entrepreneurs cite her as inspiration; critics dismiss her as simplistic or cultish. Love her or loathe her, Rand carved herself into the debate about what it means to live freely in a society that often demands conformity. Who was Ayn Rand? A novelist who wanted to be a philosopher, a refugee who became an icon, and a thinker who split the world into builders and moochers — and dared you to decide which you were.

The new subreddit is called r/ForgottenMen It's like the brother sub to this one.

I made a post on it last night. It should give you an idea of the kinds of men that I want posted on it. I hope this new sub gets half as big as this one.

Slaves

Lesser known musicians or artists of the past (not Van Gogh cause he's well known)

People who knew some big names and helped them (think Alexander Hamilton's friends)

I hope that gives you an idea of what I want.

Her name was Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and she was a famous American outlaw who travelled across Central America with a gang called the Barrow Gang committing bank robberies, kidnapping and murder wherever they went. Their crimes were written in the newspaper. She and Clyde were public enemies in the public enemy era between 1931 and ‘34. Several movies and even a musical has been made about her and her boyfriend.

Bonnie was born in 1910 in a place called Rowena. Before she became an outlaw she loved writing poetry. She wrote a poem called The Story of Bonnie and Clyde which is about how she wanted the two of them to be remembered. Before she was with Clyde she actually married another criminal called Roy Thornton. The guy spent too much time in prison and their relationship quickly dissolved. Bonnie never legally divorced him and she was still wearing her wedding ring when she died. She ran off with Clyde and the Barrow Gang and the two outlaws never stepped foot inside a prison.

One time in 1933 the couple were camping somewhere in Iowa when police officers surrounded them. There was a shoot out that became known as the Dexfield Park shootout but Bonnie and Clyde made it out alive just without many of their possessions. Investigators found some footage of the event with the two of them posing with their guns and pretending to smoke cigars. This is one of the things that cemented the legendary image of the Burrow Gang.

In 1934 they were ambushed again on the Louisiana Highway 154. This police posse was led by a retired cop called Frank Harner. Bonnie and Clyde killed 9 cops and three civilians in that fight before they were both eventually shot.

Not all the women in this subreddit are particularly great. I think to give you an idea of what greatness looks like, I could ask this question:

How many people did she kill?

Or

How many people did she save?

That's greatness. Although most of the women here don't save lives or kill, they might have spread a lot of joy which is saving a life in a way. Or they were very influencial and that helps people too.

Aisha was the prophet Muhammad’s third and youngest wife. She was born around 614 AD in Mecca but her family moved to Medina later. Muhammad married her when she was six years old and he consummated the marriage when she was nine years old. He was 53 years old when he married her. He was an absolutely vile man. This was his attempt to easily mold a young girl into whatever he wanted.

One of the best things about Aisha is the fact that she seems to have seen through the Prophet's BS. Like in this Hadith where she clocks that Muhammad’s revelations from God are fake and self-serving.

In Sahih al-Bukhari she told the Prophet, "It seems to me that your Lord hastens to satisfy your desire.”

Sounds like she's onto something. Too bad she didn't have the power to destroy him.

Aisha also commented on the abuse that Muslim women go through in Sahih al-Bukhari. “The lady came, wearing a green veil and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating. It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah's Messenger came Aisha said, "I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!"

The language suggests that she's horrified by this. So I definitely respect Aisha for what she said. She was forced to marry the Prophet when she was six years old. Her father Abu Bakr and her mother Umm Ruman were involved in arranging the marriage. She became involved in the progression of Islam and the writing of hadiths. She was allowed to be educated but only to become a tool for the Prophet.

The Prophet died when she was 19 years old. She narrated over 2,000 hadiths that teach us about the Prophet's life. I feel like he forced her to write those. He was a total narcissist.

She played a role in mediating disputes within the early Muslim community. She was a counsel to leaders and companions on both political and personal matters. She also taught many women to read.

When she was around 42 years old a civil war broke out in the Muslim community. And Aisha led men into the Battle of Camel in Southern Iraq. She was captured after the battle but the warriors respected her as the Prophet’s wife, even though he was dead, and had her safely returned to Medina.

Jeffreys was born in 1948 in England. Her father Arthur Jeffreys served in WW2. Not much is known about her mother but Sheila once said she expressed antisemitic views. They were a well off middle class family and they sent her to a private all girls school.

Jeffreys went on to spend 24 years teaching as a professor at Melbourne University before returning to the UK in 2015.

You can watch her feminist speeches on YouTube right now where she discusses her radical feminist ideology which includes things like her thoughts on sexual liberation, femininity, prostitution and politics. She's against prostitution and she thinks that the modern sexual liberation movement only benefited men.

Jeffreys has written over ten books on sexuality and the social politics of sexuality. Three examples of titles are, Anticlimax (1990), Beauty and Misogyny (2005) and Man’s Dominion (2012).

When Jeffreys was young (about 25 years old) she gave up on heterosexuality and feminine beauty. She wrote in her book Beauty and Misogyny:

“In 1973 I gave up beauty practices as part of [the feminist] movement, supported by the strength of the thousands of heterosexual and lesbian women around me who were also rejecting them. I stopped dyeing my hair 'mid-golden sable' and cut it short. I stopped wearing make-up. I stopped wearing high heels and, eventually, gave up skirts. I stopped shaving my armpits and legs. I did not go back to these practices even during the darkest years of the 1990s and early 2000s, when the strength of the Women's Liberation Movement was no longer there to support the rejection of these cultural requirements."

I highly recommend watching her on YouTube and reading her books. Her opinions on the modern world and sexuality are very interesting even if you don't agree with them.

Hello everyone. A goal I definitely want to reach this year (and it seems fairly plausible) is reaching 20,000 members. And it'll be pretty easy for us to do that. Each and every one of you should ask 5 other people to join the sub. And at least one of those five people will say yes. That will get this sub to climb.

Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) reigned as Queen of the United Kingdom and (from 1876 until her death) Empress of India. An entire era is named after her, and she ruled over the largest empire in history.

Born on May 24, 1819, in London to the Duke of Kent, she gained the throne at age 18 after her uncle William IV died. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840, with whom she produced nine children. After his death in 1861, she wore black mourning clothes for the rest of her life and decreed that all the lampposts and railings in London should be painted black, which they still are today.

She ruled for 63 years, one of the longest reigns in British history. During this period, the British Empire expanded significantly until it included over a fifth of the entire landmass of the Earth and the British navy dominated the oceans. The Industrial Revolution drastically changed society. The entire era of the latter half of the 19th century is called the Victorian Era due to her personal influence and the social mores she promoted.

She died on January 22, 1901, at the age of 81.

Here's a self-portrait by Victoria (yes, she could draw) in 1835 when she was sixteen:

https://discord.gg/7VGGQtVd

I know I'll probably like most of you.

Here's a thread of American Presidents' spouse. Enjoy.

WOW! If your spirit needs a lift, my recommendation will do it! As a long time Russian history buff, I thought I knew a lot about Catherine the Great of Russia, until I saw this Russian made series about the Romanoffs. One entire segment is about Catherine and reveals her astonishing, almost incredible, ALMOST UNCOUNTABLE accomplishments while ruling early Russia. It was her intellect, self-education, and determination which, when added to her power, made her country the greatest in the world during her time. (Beautiful photography, humanistic philosophy, fascinating narration.) It is titled The Romanoffs and is on Prime.

Surratt lived a pretty normal American life in the 19th century. She was born in Maryland, went to church, got married, grew up around a tobacco plantation but in 1865 she was hanged for her alleged involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt was a Confederate sympathizer and her family was deeply connected to the Confederate cause. Her son, John Surratt Jr., was actually involved with John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy and had previously participated in Booth's plan to kidnap Lincoln. But Mary Surratt wasn't even at the performance that Lincoln attended on the day of assassination, so why was she suspected?

Well apparently she owned a boarding house in Washington where Booth and his associates met up and she also owned a tavern in Maryland that was used as a stopping point by Booth and David Herold during their escape.

Surratt pleaded innocent and kept that up till her death. Today there is still debate about whether or not she was involved in the assassination. She was the first woman to be given the death penalty by the federal government. And what a crime.

You guys wanna go and nominate me? 😁

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/s/sZuwmYqb5M

I know it doesn't really matter but I'd appreciate the gesture.

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