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My favorite Filipino badass.

Nieves Fernandez

Nieves Fernandez, a school teacher-turned-Huk commander from Leyte, showing an American soldier how to kill Japanese soldiers with a bolo (Photo by Stanley Troutman courtesy of reddit.com) Nieves Fernandez is one of the lesser known Filipina guerrilla leaders. She is recorded by her peers and the local communities of Tacloban on the island of Leyte, as a simple Filipina school teacher who defended her homelands from the imperialist Japanese forces the moment her students were threatened to be taken away by Japanese soldiers. She was a skilled marksman and bolo fighter. Fernandez would gain the respect of native locals, lead men into battle, and was so successful in taking out Japanese patrols that the Japanese military stationed in the city, Tacloban, placed a 10,000 peso bounty on her head. Fernandez like many other guerrillas throughout the Philippines relied on makeshift weapons such as the “paltik” (a homemade shotgun made of gas pipes), bolos, homemade grenades (casings filled with old nails) and whatever items her 110 manned guerrilla unit could pilfer from the Japanese. Fernandez would live to be in her early nineties residing in Tacloban and would be survived by her sons and grandchildren. The only evidence of her heroics that survive remain in one photo (as displayed previously) and through a small 1944 American newspaper article depicting her guerrilla contributions prior to the arrival of MacArthur at Leyte.

This might be an unpopular opinion but…

Fuck Taylor Swift. I’m so tired of seeing her everywhere.

What about the "Lady Death" a.k.a. the "Russian Bitch from Hell"?

She was initially assigned to digging trenches and communication routes, armed with a single RGD-33 grenade due to weapons shortages. In the second half of July 1941, a comrade was severely injured by shrapnel and handed her his Mosin–Nagant model 1891 bolt-action rifle. On 8 August 1941 Lyudmila experienced her debut as a wartime sniper when she killed two Nazi officers in Biliaivka at a distance of 400 metres.

When the Nazis and their Romanian allies overran Odessa on 15 October 1941, her unit was withdrawn by sea to Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula, to fight in the siege of Sevastopol. There, she trained other snipers, who were credited with killing over 100 Axis soldiers during the battle. In May 1942, newly promoted Lieutenant Pavlichenko was cited by the Southern Army Council for killing 257 Axis soldiers. The number of soldiers Pavlichenko is credited with killing during World War II was 309, including 36 Axis snipers.

In June 1942, Pavlichenko was hit in the face with shrapnel from a mortar shell. When she was injured, the Soviet High Command ordered for her to be evacuated from Sevastopol via submarine.

She spent around a month in the hospital. Once she had recovered from her injuries, instead of being sent back to the front, she became a propagandist for the Red Army, where she was nicknamed "Lady Death." (The Germans called her "the Russian bitch from hell.") She also trained snipers for combat duty until the end of the war in 1945.

In Iraq our guys responded to a supply convoy taking fire. Their commander, was standing in the open calmly firing her pistol and directing her drivers in an effective defense.

Or to use a non military example just walk into any fire fighting station with women on staff.

I present for your consideration, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, aka Lady Death, aka The Russian Bitch from Hell.

I want to include how she died, as it showed just how courageous she really was:

Two months later, on 17 January 1944, Oktyabrskaya fought in another night attack. The battle would prove to be her last. The attack took place at the village of Krynki near Vitebsk. During the battle, she drove her T-34 about the German defenses, and destroyed resistance in trenches and machine-gun nests. The tank crew also destroyed a German self-propelled gun. Subsequently, the tank was hit by a German anti-tank shell, again in the tracks, and was immobilized. Oktyabrskaya immediately got out of the tank and began to repair the track, amid fierce small arms and artillery fire. She managed to repair the track, but she was hit in the head by shell fragments and lost consciousness. After the battle, she was transported to a Soviet military field hospital at Fastiv, near Kiev, and then to a military hospital in Smolensk, Russia. She remained in a coma for two months before finally dying on 15 March. She was buried with military honors at the Heroes Remembrance Gardens in Smolensk.

As well as this gem:

In 2014 US National Public Radio featured a cartoon of Oktyabrskaya to headline a story about "rejected princesses" that Disney and other storytellers had hitherto ignored.

I'd also submit La Maupin.

She's a fucking billionaire, damn right she's a bad bitch, but clearly not in the sense that the OP was thinking.

Taylor "dont track my billionaire plane" Swift. She's out of touch unfortunately.

In the Saigon women's museum I read about a older lady who would create mines from unexploded US ordinance and blow up US tanks with them. That's pretty badass.

No hate for Taylor Swift but she's not even the baddest bitch on the radio...

Taylor doesn't even sing her own songs, for those $5,000 concert tickets.

she's an inspiration

Find a woman who loves you enough to kill Nazis for you. <3

There's also literally any of the Night Witches on the Soviet side. I would include Joan of Arc, Captain Grace Hopper, Clara Maass, Ada Lovelace... basically any woman who actually did something.

Shit, if that’s not love then I don’t know what is.

We need her again.

Shiii legend

Damn. That is a bad bitch.

Sick!

While I admire her climb to the top, to say she is a self-made bad bitch would be a lie. She came from a firmly upper middle (if not upper) class background and was basically entirely bankrolled into her career by her parents. While her journey might not have been easy, she had a lot more help than most.