Badass Women in History

South African beer. That's okay. Well, beer is a five d and thirty billion dollar industry, mostly thanks to men, and who can blame them for loving beer with all those macho ads full of sexy women desperate to have sexy sex. Oh Grandpa, your social Security check is so big, you know. But it turns out Mesopotamian women were the ones who invented this man juice. Wait, sorry, no, that doesn't sound right. Um uh this man fluid? Yeah, that's better,

but it's true. Seven thousand years ago, beer was considered a gift from a goddess and only women were entrusted with making it, which is why I no longer pay for beer when I go out. You know, instead of signing my bar tab, I just write you're welcome. That's actually a really cool thing. I mean, not you're stealing drinks, but the invention of beer. Yeah. No, And and that's not all. A woman helped create. One of the things men think they can do when they're drunk. Kung fu.

Society has always told us what that that it's meant for men, you know, in pandas. But guess what. Bruce Lee, the most famous kung fuur of all time, got his whole style of kung fu from from a woman. In the seventeen hundreds, Anne by the name of ing Moy developed her method after teaching a female student how to fight off a creepy guy. You know, these days you can just swipe left, but back then you had to literally swipe left. That's yeah, that's why I'm all of

these things women's history up. Like I didn't know that a nun helped invents kung fu? Well, I mean it's not that crazy. Nuns are badass. Remember that none in the nineties who took down one arena's biggest monsters. And she still had time to teach acquire some motown classics, isn't isn't that susact? Yeah, it's my favorite documentary and speaking of fighting. It was this woman, Lisa Mightner, who discovered nuclear fission. I'm sorry, nuclear fission? What is that?

Oh my god? Seriously, Trevor, you don't know what nuclear fission is. Everyone knows it's it's when you you fission the nuclear you know, whatever the point is. Her discovery of nuclear fission became the basis for all nuclear weapons. So without her, there are no nuclear bombs, and without nuclear bombs, world leaders would have no way of proving

how big their dicks are. To listen, fellas, the next time you're butt chugging a PBR or start a bar fight or drop a nuke, remember all of the women who made it possible, and honor them by not doing any of that dumb ship in the first place. Athletes

they're good at running, jumping, and getting getting ahead. But some athletes are also trailblazers for justice and pioneers for change, like Muhammad Ali protesting the Vietnam War, or Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the anthem or j R. Smith missing all those jump shots. I see what you're saying, Jr. No justice, no threes. But today I want to talk about the activist female athletes who have been erased from the history books. Women like track star Rose Robinson long before kath Neil,

to protest police brutality. Rose refused to stand for the flag and anthem during the nineteen fifty nine Pan American Games because she felt they represented war injustice and hypocrisy. Her activism was another example of black women in the nineteen fifties perfecting the art of sitting when and where they weren't supposed to, whether it was sitting at the front of the bus, the whites only section of a restaurant,

or just sitting around judging white people dancing. Basically, we were experts at using our behinds to save you to the system. It wasn't long after the protest that the I R. S came for Rose for tax evasion. Of course they did. She ended up going to jail and missing the nineteen sixty Olympic Games, the same games where a young unknown athlete named Cassius Clay broke out onto

the world stage. History may have been different if the government had Wesley sniped Robinson over three hundred and eighty dollars. Fast forward to a couple of Olympics later, and another brave athlete would have her protest overlooked. Wroyomi Attias was the first athlete and Olympic history, male or female, to win gold medals and consecutive hundred of an accomplishment that took two decades to beat. And that's before all these

modern improvements in science and nutrition and vegetables. When Tian set this record, they hadn't even invented kale yet. And in the nineteen sixty Olympics, Wyomi had protested racial segregation by wearing black shorts instead of her uniform shorts. Unfortunately, her protest did not get the coverage that should have, and no one noticed, and part of that was the media's fault. But maybe she could have done something a bit more flashy. If your protests involves clothes, is either

got to be loundclothes or no clothes. If you're running with no bottoms, oh you've got people's attention. Finally, let's talk about Alison Phelix, one of the greatest sprinters to ever compete in the Olympics. Phelix was good enough to get a Nike sponsorship until when she got pregnant. Then during contract negotiations, Nike offered her a brand new deal with a seventy percent pay cut, which is some bullshit. They should have given her a hun your present more.

She's literally growing another sprinter. If it was me, I would have rolled up a knife and Burnett bish Brown. But Allison is classic, you know. So she wrote an op ed in the New York Times to let the sneaker heads know what was up. The resulting outrage forced Nike to stop reducing endorsements based on an athlete getting pregnant. There was even a congressional inquiry into Nike's maternity policies

for athletes. And if you're Nike, you know you need to make changes to policy when Congress is the one telling you to just do it. So the next time you think about athletes taking a stand, don't forget the ladies. They're racking up the bling and fighting the power at the same time. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm about to go do my own bottomless protests outside Indris Elba's house. What am I protesting his wife? I like to celebrate the stories of impressive women that have been overlooked. It's

not history, it's his story. Took me forever to come up with that, you know, DESSI I honestly, have learned so much already this month about women who have done great things in history. Okay, yeah, but you see, everyone pays attention to the women who did great things, but no one speaks about women who did bad things. For example, everyone's heard of Benedict Arnold, right, he was the general who betrayed America during the Revolution, the greatest treason in

our history up until Tristan Thompson. But you probably haven't heard of Benedict's wife, Peggy ship In Arnold. Now, she was actually the one who encouraged him to turn on America and help plan his treason with British officials. You know. It's it's like they say, the couple that betrays together stays together, and there's nothing hotter than treason sex. Trust me, I don't even know what that means, but that is really fascinating, DESSI I had no idea about the role

that she played. Of course you didn't, You're a man. I didn't know either. I saw it on his snapple cap at lunch today. Yeah, here's another one. We all know who Alexander the Great was, the ruthless king, bloodthirsty conqueror. Sideburns afficionado. But he only got to do all of that because of a woman, his mom, Queen Olympius. She wanted her son to be king so bad she had her husband and his other wife assassinated. She schemed so

her child could have a better life like a Macedonian aunt. Becky. You know, actually Olympius inspired me to break into my son's school and destroy the other kids science projects. Sorry, someone trashed your volcano, Timmy, But I too, am raising a kings. You can't break into a school and vandalized children's homework. Oh wow, Trevor, you're gonna tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body. Wait, no, no, no, no,

what you did was a crime. Well you know, you know what else used to be a cry women voting? Huh right, ladies, But you know what, I'm glad you brought up crime because women can do that too. People always talk about Machine Gun Kelly, one of one of the most notorious gangsters during Prohibition, but nobody's ever heard of his wife, Katherine Kelly. She helped him scheme, she helped plan his kidnappings. She even gave him the gun he was named after. You know, before her, everyone called

him finger guns. Kelly. Wow, this is really fascinating you opening my eyes. Like, even when it comes to bad things, we tend to erase the contributions of women from history. Yeah, and it's still happening today. Just look at Facebook fake news scandals helping Russia spread propaganda. They even sold all our dick picks to Steve Bannon. And every time something goes wrong people blame Mark Zuckerberg, But there's CEO Cheryl Sandberg deserves just as much credit. Karon's dragging his name

through the mud. I am so sick of people refusing to say something bad about women on the internet. Desert. It almost sounds like you admire these bad women. I admire all women, but there is one woman I admire above all. She is my number one evil heroine. I mean, I guess heroine is the number one evil heroin, but this lady comes close, Trevor. When you think of pirates, you think of Blackbeard, Captain Kid or whoever's to captain now. But the most successful pirate of all time was actually

a woman, Jong Yao. In the eighteen hundreds. She had eighty thousand sailors fifteen hundred ships. It took more pirate fortune than Johnny Depps lawyers. But get this, when the Chinese navy finally caught her, she talked her way out of jail, got amnesty, and then opened a casino boom shed from being a criminal tyrant to a legal casino owner, a move historians called the reverse Donald Trump. Trevor, have you never wondered why women don't get the historic credit

they deserve? The sexism statues, Trevor, women don't have as many statues and as men. In fact, nationwide, only eight percent of outdoor statues are of women. Wow, how did you know that? Statistics at Drake Snapple? I read Internet, corn Dog, and I've seen it for myself. I was walking through Central Park the other day under the rest and arsaw statues of Alexander Hamilton's Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, all famous men from history. But it comes to women.

There's only two statues in Central Park, Alice in Wonderland and Mother Goose, which makes no damn sense. Alice is just a white girl who took Molly, And why does Mother Goods get a statue? All she did was a ghost? I don't think that's right. Fine, she made love, no that's what okay. Anyway, do say I'm lost. How does having more statues help? Because chevor statues help us remember history when you walk past the statue and you're like, oh, yeah,

MLK did have a dream. Thomas Jefferson was a complicated individual. And when you don't honor women the same way you honor men, you're leaving them out of history. That's true. Well, at least at least women have the Statue of Liberty. That's one of the most famous statues in the world. That doesn't count. We need statues the real women, not

some giant French bitch holding ice cream. Now, someone like Tony Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature, or someone like Francis Perkins, the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet, or someone like Beyoncet, the first woman to be Beyoncet. Why doesn't she have a statue. I mean she's already standing like a statue, she's read it. This was actually a great idea, But I hope you understand building thousands of statues of women

is going to be difficult. I mean, statues are expensive. You know this is gonna be a project that's gonna take a lot of time. I've already done a Trevor what I've designed one statue to symbolize all women, their power, their beauty, their mystique, a flawless avatar of womanhood that anyone can look at and see themselves. Don't say that that's a statue of you, Trevor. I'm touched that you can see me in that art. No, it's literally you. It has your name on it. And also, why are

you holding a baby? You don't have kids. That baby symbolizes America, okay, which women haven't carrying for far joel As Now I'm kidding this. Itges Elba's baby, because that's some history I want to make. Welcome to see pe Time the only show that's for the culture. As we end Black History Month, we look back on the accomplishments of black women. And joining me for this episode is dul Say Sloan. Thank you, Roy, But I've been here for every episode. I think you must be mistaken CP

Time as a solo show. No, no, no, no. Check the tape. I was there when you talked about actors and black politicians, and I was right in front of you during the last one I apologize. My peripherals are not what they used to. Pete, don't blame the cataracts, Royal. You forgot like a bit. But it's okay. Black women have been overlooked in American history, but we've still accomplished great things like Madam C. J. Walker, America's first black woman to be a self made millionaire. No, no, no,

I do believe that's Aretha Franklin. Just because a Wretha has been in the first since nineteen seventy three doesn't mean she was the first millionaire. Madam C. J. Walker earned her millions in the early nineteen hundreds. That's old money. And she did it with hair care products, hair grower, scalp pointment, and of course she revolutionized the hot com h a smell of hot grease and lady Edges on a Saturday morning. You know, I have her to thank

for all these scars on my ears. There's also Marie Van Britton Brown, an innovator who in nineteen sixty six, during the heart of the Civil rights movement, invented the home security system. Before heart, when someone broke in, people just yelled, a man, don't take my ship. But while her invention might have dramatically decreased theft. It didn't stop a d T from stealing the idea from her. We also can't forget may Carol Jemison, the first black woman

to travel in space. You know what I've always said, don't say, is that more black people should go to space, not even for science, just for safety. There's no police up there. Facts. I just want to thank you for bringing these wonderful pieces to the show. We often forget what black women did in American history. History. We're forgetting black women now. Quick tell me who founded the Black Lives Matter movement? Well, that's very easy. Everyone knows that's

d Ray the man in the blue vest. No, No, the original founders were A Lisa Garza, Patrice Colors, and ocle To Matty. Were they ever wearing a blue vest? Okay? How is that supposed to know? Sound like a fashion problem. But there's only thirty minutes left here in black history, and who knows, maybe next year there won't be a need for this program because we would have reached the mountaintop. That is funny every year and this has been CP time and remember the culture. It's no secret that women's

on screen portrayals have evolved throughout history. We've gone from playing secretaries being saved by James Bond all the way to nuclear scientists being saved by James Bond. But I want to focus on one specific aspect of female to pictions, the orgasm. It's when a woman is stimulated to the point of climax, causing a physical and neurological response that scientists referred to as fantastic and over the years, depicting female pleasure on screen is something that's changed more than

the batteries in your vibrator. The first known female orgasm on the silver screen was in the nineteen thirty three German film Ecstasy, when Hetty Lamar took the broad Worst Express all the way to pleasure Burgh. Turns out the world wasn't ready for this. Everyone denounced it, from Hitler to the Pope, And if you ask me, the Pope has no place weighing in on sex scenes. He's celibate. I mean, when we need your opinion on the best

stain removers for white fabrics, then we'll call you. Unfortunately, being the first actress to climax on screen followed Hetty Lamar for the rest of her career. She was typecast as the seductress, even though she was literally the smartest person in Hollywood. Yeah, as her side hustle, she was a brilliant scientist who invented the basis for all modern wireless technology. J Without her, no one would be orgasmy because we wouldn't be able to watch porn on our

cell phones in the bathroom. And that was the last big on screen female orgasm for a while, because around the same time, the Hayze Code was enforced in Hollywood. This was a set of censorship guidelines that banned movies from explicitly showing or discussing sex. Even married couples had to be shown in separate beds, or, as it's now called, the reverse chocolate factory. With the four you bedridden for the past twenty years, it takes a lot of work

to keep this family going. No one was getting off. The Hayese Code finally ended in the late sixties, which, as timing goes, is like having your dry January and at an open bar in Cabo. America was embarking on

a sexual revolution, so female pleasure came back on screen. Unfortunately, it was often treated as a novelty that existed for men's amusements, so you've got scenes like the one in nineteen sixty eight Barbaralla where evil doctor Eyebrows over Here traps Jane Fonda and a machine that's supposed to give her orgasms until she'd dies, except that she climax is so hard she breaks the machine. Goodness. At the time it was considered a camp be sexy thing, but looking

at it now, it's a violation. Remember, everyone, if you're going to put a woman in a machine that orgasms her to death, unique consent first. Another major moment came a few years later with the movie Deep Throat. It tells the story of a woman who keeps giving men oral sex because her pleasure zone is in her throat. That is not how it works, but Deep Throat became the first porno film to go mainstream and inspired both

my uncles to become dennists. The female orgasms and Barbarrella and Deep Throat were basically male fantasies about how women experience pleasure, so it was appropriate that the next onstream orgasm to make a splash totally debunked those fantasies when Harry met Sally famously includes an extended scene of Meg Ryan faking an orgasm in a deli to prove to Billy Crystal that maybe he wasn't the cunnelingest king that he thought he was. Oh, yes, yes, yes oh. This

scene was groundbreaking for a few reasons. It told all the women watching who had faked orgasms that they weren't alone. It taught men to try to be attentive to their partner's needs, and it catapulted pastronomy to become the top aphrodisiac of nine nine. It also started a conversation about the performative nature of the female orgasm. Women face far too much pressure to satisfy their partner's ego instead of themselves. I mean, no one ever has to fake it for

their vibrator. If they don't get the job done, they just go back into the drawer and they think about what they did. In the years that followed, female pleasure became more and more common on screen, but they were still often treated as punchlines, like Jennifer Anniston getting unexpected magic himaxes and clus Almighty, or Katherine Hygel accidentally orgasm me at dinner when a little boy grabbed her remote controlled vibrating underwear. Okay, there is so much wrong with this.

It's non consensual, it's a kid doing it, and it perpetuates the dangerous myth that vibrating underwear gives you anything but a five alarm electrical bird. And even when orgasms weren't meant to be funny, it could be hard to take them seriously, like in Forty Days and Forty Nights when Josh Hartnett makes his partner orgasm by caressing her with flowers, which, believe me, is not that easy. Not to be a size queen, but you're gonna have to

use at least a sunflower. The ads weren't a step forward for orgasms, but they weren't a step back either. They still needed to step a little to the side, now the other side, then back and forth. Yeah, right there. Thankfully, in the present day, we're starting to see much more realistic and positive depictions of women pop in their turkey timers. These days, you can hardly turn your TV on without seeing a woman getting off. And finally, movies and shows

are doing this through the female gaze. And if you don't know what that would look like, then you haven't seen Bridgerton. It's a show about nineteenth century British society taking care of their little women. She's a Beth in the streets, but a Joe in the sheets. Thanks to bridgertain there haven't been this many female orgasms since well

since everyone started watching Britain. So that's the history on the female orgasm on screen, and who knows what the future holds, but it is important because the way women are portrayed on screen holds a mirror up to how they're treated in real life. And as all women know, sometimes holding up a mirror to something is the only way to get a good look and figure out how it works. The Daily Show with Governora Ears Edition. Watching The Daily Show weeknights at eleven ten Central on Comedy

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