The "Bitches Badder Than Taylor Swift" Meme Is Iconic In More Ways Than One
4 December 2017, 11:22
Twitter managed to turn a 'Look What You Made Me Do' meme into an online history lesson celebrating the baddest bitches of all time.
By now, you will have likely seen the elaborate music video for Taylor Swift's Reputation comeback single 'Look What You Made Me Do', featuring a myriad of dancers, zombie makeup and the death of the "old Taylor".
Fans, of course, have been going wild for it ever since its release a few months back and one such Swift-lover took to Twitter to pose the ultimate question:
Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift 😍😛😤 pic.twitter.com/AkSyQBUIME
— Nutella (@xnulz) November 10, 2017
Well internet? Can you do it?
Turns out they could as hundreds of Twitter users used this opportunity to celebrate all of the baddest bitches throughout history:
1) This bitch.
Jeanne de Clisson, murderous French aristocrat-turned-pirate who named her ship My Revenge after the French king executed her husband. She spent the next decade killing all the French crews she encountered, sparing only 1 sailor to relay her message of vengeance ☠️⚓️⚔️ https://t.co/7JGPo3qNjj
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) December 1, 2017
2) This bitch.
Boudicca was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61, and died shortly after its failure. She is sometimes considered a British folk hero
— Francesca Dobbyn (@Francesca__ah_) December 2, 2017
3) This bitch.
Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya: her husband was killed by the Nazis in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. She went to the Soviet gov’t and demanded to get a tank to kill Nazis. The gov’t relented and she killed Nazis with her tank. pic.twitter.com/9Iinz8ndxx
— (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (@shonan_naminori) December 2, 2017
4) This bitch.
Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, known as “Molly Pitcher”. Camp follower to the Continental Army, she brought water to soldiers & to cool the cannons during the heat of battle.
— The Mominatrixx (@TheMominatrixx) December 4, 2017
When her husband was wounded in the the Battle of Monmouth, she took over his position at the cannon. pic.twitter.com/Lel18NyTZ5
5) This bitch.
Franceska Mann, the Polish ballerina, who, while being led to the gas chamber, stole a Nazi guard’s gun, shot him dead, and started a female-led riot that gave hope to all of the prisoners of Auschwitz in the face of certain death https://t.co/s7yM6MDYT5
— Hollywood Histories (@moviehistories) December 2, 2017
6) This bitch.
Virginia Woolf: she fought the patriarchy, pioneered stream of consciousness writing, co-founded a publishing company, had a female lover, struggled with depression, and walked into a river with rocks in her pockets when she was done with life. https://t.co/zpYlEd22Pv
— Lauren Brown (@laurenalixb) December 3, 2017
7) These bitches.
These women fighting the fascists in during the Spanish Civil War are also #badderthantaylor pic.twitter.com/GBsZQCBmv3
— K.C. Knack’s Most Excellent Account🌹🏴 (@thedirtyhippie_) December 4, 2017
8) This bitch.
My great-grandmother, a Mohawk Iroquois daughter of a high-rise steel worker, secretly learned how to drive (when good, unmarried girls didn't drive)so that on the 1st day women were allowed to vote she could drive all around Brooklyn,morning till night,taking women to the polls https://t.co/c969EWJOoA
— Kris Kalenov = idealist + experience (@TheWinterMen) December 2, 2017
9) This bitch.
My mom (in my pinned tweet above) was #badderthantaylor -
— Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@4lisaguerrero) December 4, 2017
Came to the US at 16, learned English, married young, had 2 kids, volunteered for The Salvation Army, became a citizen, worked with the homeless, was diagnosed with lymphoma THEN helped the poor in Mexico and died at 29.
10) This bitch.
Sister Megan Rice, who at age 82 broke into a top-secret facility to protest the development and possession of weapons of mass destruction, and exposed massive security breeches and contractor corruption at the same time. https://t.co/nuAQoFbRVj
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) December 4, 2017
11) This bitch.
My grandma arrived on the LES as a toddler and when her father promptly died, her penniless mother put her in an orphanage. She was a schoolteacher by 18 and became a rare female CFO of a big corporation in the 1940s and 50s. She was badass. https://t.co/jBrvDwnIF6
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) December 3, 2017
12) This bitch.
My grandmother. Fled from shelling in WWII Netherlands to get married with false papers (too young). Hid Jews in her barn and dealt with Nazis daily when occupied. Flew (took turns w/her husband) a single prop aircraft across Australia. All before she was 30.
— Andy Mac (@AMacNewWest) December 3, 2017
13) This bitch.
My grandmother, Harvard educated but jobless in the Depression, decided to jump a freighter, go through the Panama Canal, & embark on a naturalist expedition to Ecuador. She declined the shrunken head one tribe offered. They had never seen a white lady or curly hair before. https://t.co/JABdSIh63n
— John Kraljevich (@JohnSpiroSpero) December 3, 2017
14) This bitch.
Also might add my mother, because she grew up in the Gdr, pursued a job that was dominated by men, became the first woman in the STG council (German society for maritime technology) and who inspires me to be strong and independent and loving all at once.
— Charlie (@Disco_fox) December 3, 2017
Incredible scenes.
Congrats to all the bad bitches out there. You really are running the world.