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While the dudes of history were pretty awesome (or spectacularly horrible) in their own right, the ladies that were left out were badass.

This is an attempt to grow my own knowledge of strong, courageous, weak, scared, scarred, and imperfect women that history has forgotten about.

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‘Cover your eyes,’ an Iranian woman says to a chastising cleric before beating him up 

When an Iranian woman was chastised on the street for being improperly dressed by Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, a cleric, she responded by replying, “You! You cover your eyes!” When the cleric repeated his warning, she began insulting, pushing and kicking the man.

Beheshti spent three days in the hospital following the incident.