We’re 100 years on from Lily Parr and Dick, Kerr’s Ladies and we’re still fighting the same battles?
Lilian "Lily" Parr (26 April 1905 – 24 May 1978) was an English professional women's association football player who played as a winger. She is best known for playing for the Dick, Kerr's Ladies team, which was founded in 1917 and based in Preston, Lancashire.
In 2002, she was the only woman to be made an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame at the National Football Museum.
Parr was born in a rented house in Union Street, Gerrard's Bridge, St. Helens; the fourth of seven...
Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. was one of the earliest known women's association football teams in England. The team remained in existence for over 48 years, from 1917 to 1965, playing 828 games, winning 758, drawing 46, and losing 24. During its early years, matches attracted anywhere from 4,000 to over 50,000 spectators per match. In 1920, Dick, Kerr Ladies defeated a French side 2–0 in front of 25,000 people that went down in history as the first international women's association football game. The t...
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If she’d lived longer…
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (/zəˈhɑːriəs/; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball and track and field. She won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics, before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest female athletes of all time.
Mildred Ella Didrikson was born on June 26, 1911, the sixth of seven children, in the coastal ci...
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Oh man, I love her! What a great lady!
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I HIGHLY recommend the show on Netflix. It is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! Those lady badasses flying planes in high heels and pearls and those Donna Reed dresses were just the best. And now they are super cool old ladies STILL flying planes and being the coolest. It’s WONDERFUL.
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Brings new irony to the “have you ever been arrested?” query:
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It’s funny. Then I think, for women it’s real. Trying to switch the genders, it can only be played for humor. It’s our real lives determined by men’s ideas of us without our input.
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You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But some people seem to be taking it very seriously…
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Guess what happened (which absolutely no one 1 predicted)?
Non-trafficked sex workers are in a more dangerous situation, more vulnerable to trafficking, after SESTA/FOSTA’s passing…
…And police are having a harder time finding the traffickers.
1 i.e., everyone
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“And the cardinals all said sit down, sit down you’re rocking the boat”
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So so tired of the “shut up ladies” thing. Whether it’s making you feel like you shouldn’t make waves or overtly telling women to stifle their voices. Sing it loud, Sisters.
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ZOMG!!! ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FEMALE EQUALITY IN 1940!!!
But…no Wikipedia entry.
siiiiiiiiiiigh
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