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The recent discussion about the great acting skills of Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, Elisha Cuthbert, and others led me to the thought that we should perhaps more openly discuss female achievement, ideally with examples. Here is a random and very talented Chinese woman who demonstrates mastery of elliptic curves. This chick is probably in her mid to late 30s, but still remarkably good-looking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronda_Rousey
I think its fair to count Ronda Rousey here. In her heyday, I believe she was the most prolific UFC fighter, might even arguably be responsible for bringing Women’s MMA into public relevancy.
Female MMA fighters are usually too masculine-looking for my tastes, but Ronda in her physical prime looks pretty nice.
The picture on her Wikipedia page is very flattering. She looks pretty cute. I was only familiar with her in Entourage, one of the Expendables movies, and one of the Fast and Furious movies. She looks very masculine in these movies. Even worse, she plays roles in which she is supposed to be tough-looking.
Here is a girl who has discovered some new yoga poses while filming herself in her bed. At first I thought that this may just be a random girl but that is not the case. Of course she has an account on OnlyFans and videos of her sucking dick have leaked, too. I do not think that she makes millions so I am not sure that this career path is working out for her.
That’s yoga?? Holy fuck, I thought I was at the strip club. I also love what yoga does for a woman’s body. Yoga FTW.
Since you titled this thread as “female achievement”, I will take that literally and celebrate the Los Angeles, California firefighting female leadership via this meme, I mean, photo:
https://archive.is/eZc2c
Those raging fires will be controlled soon. If it can’t be controlled soon enough, this has nothing to do with DEI, I mean strong female leadership!
They must have a huge food budget with all the clams being licked in there.
https://x.com/GPrime85/status/1877761960852218020/photo/1
First, its wanting fat superheroes and video game characters who “look like you”, now its wanting emergency professionals who have your imperfections. Even if those same imperfections make such people outright unqualified for the job.
This kinda reminds me of a time when I spoke with certain people I knew in the past who argued with me about the harsh reality that certain disabilities will make one unqualified for an occupation. Would you trust your life to a very clumsy and slow-in-the-mind doctor?
Its harsh, but no matter how much passion and good intentions are behind it, it wouldn’t be worth entertaining this person’s dream at the cost of innocent lives. Find something else to do good in the world that’s within your ability. (I’ll even include “having kids” in this category. If you have downs or some other horrific genetic disability, or live in hopeless poverty, etc. Have some empathy and don’t fucking pass the suffering down to your children!)
But people don’t want to acknowledge that, and this is where we eventually end up in.
It takes a very unique man to be a paramedic/fireman. Balls of steel, heart of gold. I had an emergency about 6 months ago. My female neighbor afterward, wouldn’t shut up about how handsome the guys were. EMT’s don’t make shit unfortunately. It’s just
what they were made to do. I would do it
myself, but these guys see the craziest things
imaginable.
I would crack. And many of them do.
I just watched Euro Trip (2004), which was mentioned before. It features the amazingly talented Jennifer Trachtenberg, probably my favorite early-lifer. She is far more attractive than Sarah Michelle Gellar. Yet, she did not have a particularly great career and her life seems to be a mess: no children, no partner, and her looks are gone. Here she is in her prime:
Yep, Michelle was the top celebrity crush of many a guy from my generation. Anyone who happened to watch some Buffy the Vampire Slayer (reunion of the hottest earlylifers ever?) or Euro Trip.
YouTube just recommended the following video to me, which is an excerpt of a Senate hearing involving Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General. Either Forbes put an excessive amount of filters on the video or this woman is the hottest 59-year-old on the planet. She also does not have the voice of an old woman. If there is an AI solution out there that turns videos with old hags into a feast for the eyes, I am all for it, no matter the context.
_Extremely_ well-preserved for a 59 year old!
Well, there will always be a few people who hit the jackpot in the genetic lottery. 🙂