On 10 November Twitter user Nutella posed the rhetorical question: “Name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift.”The internet took the invitation literally and by Monday the post had more than 7,000 replies. Nutella (@xnulz) Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift 😍😛😤 pic.twitter.com/AkSyQBUIMEThe thread quickly became a history lesson on some of the “baddest bitches” from history, ranging from women’s rights activists to heroines of ancient cultures. Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) Jeanne de Clisson, murderous French aristocrat-turned-pirate who named her ship My Revenge after the French king executed her husband. She is sometimes considered a British folk hero(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (@shonan_naminori) Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya: her husband was killed by the Nazis in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. The gov’t relented and she killed Nazis with her tank.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2017 05:15 UTC