I stupidly thought we had moved past saying aggression and violence in women is somehow cat-like. When I received a YouTube link with “cat fight” I thought I was clicking to see actual cats fighting. I was disappointed to see female athletes. Fortunately, upon expressing my disappointment, the person who sent the link sent me several videos of real cats fighting, of which there are many on YouTube.
Girl Gone Wild of the Day: UNM junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended indefinitely from soccer and civility following the most unsportladylike conduct I have ever seen in my entire life.
May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper — The Revolution — four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that ‘Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.’
— Susan B. Anthony, who voted for the first time on this day in the presidential election of 1872.
Two weeks later she was arrested by a U.S. deputy marshal and was fined $100. For as long as she lived, she never paid the fine. (via savingpaper)