Sebuah tweet viral tentang Taylor Swift yang di-post oleh akun Twitter @xnulz berubah menjadi sebuah thread berisi kumpulan informasi mengenai sosok-sosok wanita kuat sepanjang sejarah.
Pada tanggal 10 November, akun @xnulz mengunggah sebuah foto cuplikan video ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ disertai dengan pertanyaan retoris, “Name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift.”
Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift ???????????? pic.twitter.com/AkSyQBUIME
— Nutella (@xnulz) November 10, 2017
Pertayaan retoris tersebut ternyata ditanggapi secara harfiah oleh warganet. Sontak mereka berlomba-lomba menyebutkan nama-nama wanita kuat sepanjang sejarah, mulai dari aktivis, tokoh perjuangan hingga sosok wanita dalam kehidupan pribadinya.
Beberapa menanganggap “name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift” sebagai meme yang informatif dan edukatif.
I’m BEYOND delighted that this “name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift” meme is rapidly turning into a Twitter course in the history of female piracy.
— Elly Hunt (@CostumElly) December 2, 2017
btw this "name a bitch badder than taylor swift" meme where ppl give facts about incredible women in history is dope and v informative and egggzacklee why i love twitter
— ????? (@anihi1ism) December 4, 2017
Beberapa yang lain menganggap tweet viral ini sebagai ajang untuk mengadu dan membandingkan sosok serta pencapaiaan antar cewek.
i'm glad that everyone is sharing stories of these powerful awesome women on the "name a badder bitch" tweets, but the degree to which we've decided it's okay to use taylor swift as some kind of "safe" cultural punching bag is honestly gross
— Chelsea Fagan (@Chelsea_Fagan) December 4, 2017
I see that we’re playing women off against other women with the “name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift” meme....
— Louise ‘Glad Tidings’ Gornall (@Rock_andor_roll) December 3, 2017
These 'name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift' threads that keep popping up are actually quite mean. I'm not even a huge fan but can recognise they are part of a wider issue - women tearing down other women in an attempt to somehow show they are supportive of 'better' women? ????...
— Alice Catherine (@aliceharan) December 4, 2017
Pendapat ini didasarkan pada tweet awal akun @xnulz yang meminta secara retoris untuk menyebutkan cewek yang lebih badass dibanding Taylor. Secara enggak langsung, semua tweet balasan dalam thread ini menganggap bahwa sosok Taylor enggak lebih baik atau keren dibanding dengan sosok cewek-cewek lain yang disebutkan.
Terlepas dari perbedaan pendapat tersebut, enggak bisa dipungkiri kalau informasi yang dibagi oleh warganet tentang profil wanita-wanita kuat sepanjang sejarah di dalam thread emang edukatif banget nih, girls.
Selain tokoh-tokoh terkenal, sosok wanita ‘awam’ yang disebutkan dalam balasan thread juga bikin kita lebih menghargai kehadiran wanita-wanita hebat di samping kita dan termotivasi untuk menjadi sosok yang enggak kalah kuat. Yuk intip 20 meme ‘name a badder bitch than Taylor Swift’ terbaik berikut ini!
Beberapa warganet menyebutkan okoh-tokoh terkenal sepanjang sejarah.
Jeanne de Clisson
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
Boudicca
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
Susi Pudjiastuti
Susi, Indonesian minister of fisheries, was a high school dropout. She established her own seafood processing company. During the Aceh tsunami, her planes was the first that reached the damaged areas to supply food and meds. She has destroyed hundreds of boats for illegal fishing https://t.co/55A0MZXHQk
— Jon (@direuwolf) December 2, 2017
Mariya Vaislyevna Oktyabrskaya
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
Zheng Shi
zheng shi was a sex worker in Canton who was captured & wedded to a pirate lord and so quickly proved her ability to command that she took over and at one point commanded 300+ ships with 40,000 men and was so fearsome that she forced china and britain to let her peacefully retire https://t.co/uQXD8JsL1k
— happy doggeauxlidays (@DOGGEAUX) December 2, 2017
Julie d’Aubigny
Julie d'Aubigny was a French opera singer/swordswoman in the 1600s who killed over ten men in duels over other women and once took holy vows so she could break into a nunnery, sleep with a blonde nun, then burned the church down and escaped with herhttps://t.co/SaGN3FuELu
— ? Julie d'Atmabigny (@Swordwields) December 2, 2017
Phulan Devi
Phulan Devi was a Dalit (low caste) woman born to a poor rural family in India and was later called a “feminist Robin Hood” for leading low-caste rebellions and robbing rich communities to redistribute to poor Indian communities. https://t.co/8YYYWGcYrv
— Vriddhi / ?????? (@scaryammu) December 3, 2017
Franceska Mann
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
Virginia Woolf
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
Elizabeth Freeman
Elizabeth Freeman was the first enslaved Black person to sue for freedom & win. She ended slavery in Massachusetts. https://t.co/kAi4vxzrLY
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) December 3, 2017
Khutulun
Khutulun was the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan. She was a strong fighter and insisted that any man who wished to marry her must defeat her in wrestling, but any man who she beat would have to give her a horse. She wound up with 10,000 horses. https://t.co/TQTrKPN9EA
— Samantha Mash ???? (@anamericanghost) December 2, 2017
Queen Ana Nzinga
Queen Ana Nzinga. She ruled the Mbundu people in Angola. A brilliant military strategist, she led revolts against Portuguese slave traders. She didn't have one husband, instead she had a male harem and she made all the men dress as women. https://t.co/h1Gi3ZnXqk
— Christiana Amarachi Mbakwe (@Christiana1987) December 3, 2017
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai. As a young girl campaigned for right of girls to free education in Pakistan, survived murder attempt by the Taliban for speaking out, became youngest ever Nobel Prize winner and continues to campaign on equality rights and education for women and girls today. https://t.co/VBSTh2uOSb
— NomadicWriter (@NomadicWriter) December 3, 2017
Yuli Rachmawati / Julia Perez
Yuli Rachmawati better known as Julia Perez. in October 2011, Indonesia's top Muslim authority accused Julia of being a porno actress. Rather than start wearing a Muslim headscarf, she responded by demanding a meeting & challenged them to show any evidence of pornography. https://t.co/rg3bJHdj06
— ???? ???? ???? ???? (@tthekenedycurse) December 3, 2017
Pengguna Twitter yang lain menyebutkan sosok wanita kuat di dalam kehidupannya sendiri.
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
I had a great-aunt who escaped a concentration camp after being shot and left for dead in a ditch full of bodies and survived the rest of World War 2 living in a refrigerator box in someone’s basement. https://t.co/f5gJvHZtsE
— Diehardigan (@OhNoSheTwitnt) December 3, 2017
My grandmother who raised a half dozen kids, only one of which was her own, worked every day of her life. Could drink anyone under the table and survived breast cancer TWICE. And when her body finally gave out and she left us she was more afraid of what we would do without her. https://t.co/EPxKyXkVDb
— Richard Jensen (@RichardJensen46) December 3, 2017
My wife. She went into labor while performing a gall bladder removal on a patient. Between contractions she finished the case.
— Rob F???????? (@ospunx) December 2, 2017
My great aunt Wanda, with a 1 year old at home, Jewish, smuggled herself back INTO Nazi Germany in the boot of a car to rescue her mother. They left on last train out, stopped by border guard who took their wedding rings as payment. Both lived long happy lives in Surrey.
— Meryl O'Rourke© (@MerylORourke) December 2, 2017
Ok. Fine: I cared for my brilliant husband as brain tumor took his vision, short term memory, & core bodily functions through 13 brain surgeries; raised our 1 yr old baby alone. Finished PhD dissertation 8 months after he died. Published like mad & got tenure at R1. https://t.co/yvum8IslI7
— Danna Young????????????? (@dannagal) December 3, 2017
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