Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 06, 2023

Lucy has a point!

Oh, there are plenty of women to study in history. Madame Curie, Susan B. Anthony, Queen Elizabeth II, Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Malala Yousafzai, Jane Austen, Sally Ride, Mother Teresa, Mary Shelley, Harriet Tubman, and many more.

Oh, just wait. In a few decades, students will be taught to reject Dead White Men. Women and POCs will monopolize the sphere of education. Because equity.

https://interestingengineering.Com/innovation/female-inventors-and-their-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-the-history-in-a-revolutionary-way

https://www.history.Com/news/women-inventions

https://www.smithsonianmag.Com/innovation/five-women-inventors-you-didnt-learn-about-in-history-class-180979844/

https://en.wikipedia. Org/wiki/List_of_inventions_and_discoveries_by_women

They don’t call it his story for nothing, Lucy.

The only woman we studied in US history in the 60s was Molly Pitcher. I pointed out to my teacher that Prudence Crandall (a distant relative of mine) got a side box, but he didn’t want to know. “That’s not important.”

I think Lucy had some of my teachers.

My favourite arc starring Lucy starts being reproduced today :) This will be a great sequence of strips, and Lucy will be a likeable and admirable character throughout it.

Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary Engle Pennington, Martha Coston, Elizabeth Blackwell.

Without Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark would have failed.

Don’t worry, Lucy. I’m sure they’ll teach you about historical women, eventually.

And unlike Peppermint Patty, Lucy is alert in her classroom…

Oh, great! Peanuts is going woke! Now I gotta make 50 youtube videos about it cuz I’m a professional loser! Wehhh!

Lena Horne, Greta Garbo Sophia Loren, Lela arcieri, Halle berry, Sophia vergara, Roselyn Sanchez, Kat dennings, Toni Braxton sigh :)

I’m 58 years old, and only recently have I learned that black women had a huge role in the success of the space program.

Study women? That’s too WOKE for some school systems. Everybody knows that all the important things that were ever accomplished were accomplished by white men. It must be true because that’s what I learned back in school in the 1950’s and if that education was good enough for me, it should be good enough for everyone.

I do know better now because a thing called LIFE happened to me: best teacher I ever had.

Cute in what way?

Parallel lives, and achievements. So, not one or the other. Would provide a bigger picture on the same timeline.

“Well-behaved women rarely make history,” – Unknown. So go out and upset people!!! Challenge the status quo. They will say nasty things about you, but they will not forget you.

And we devote a WHOLE MONTH to studying women in history! /s

Start with Marie Curie

Let’s see, who writes the history books? (Until recently, at least.)

Sarah Josepha Hale (“Mother of Thanksgiving”, author of the Great American Nursery Rhyme), Martha Coston (inventor of the “Coston Flare”), Mary Engle Pennington (scientist and engineer), innovated refrigeration for rail cars carrying fresh produce,and sculptor Harriet Frishmuth.

My paternal grandmother was one of the first 2 female female border guards for Canada at the Us Canada, CBSA, border in the 50’s

Definitely many important woman figures throughout History that had nothing to do with their looks……

Lucy is asking for HERstory vs HIStory

Ah, a classic. Thanks Sparky.

Bet she rocked those pin ups in WW2.

Awesome documentary on Netflix BOMBSHELL movie star and INVENTOR, Hedy Lamar.

I’m sure she looks and ACTS better than you, Lucy!

I had a famous grandmother and grand-aunt. Check out the new book about them: She Devils at the Door.

Welcome to reality in America Lucy. You want to study women you got to do it on your own. Maizing has a great list to start with.

My grandmother owned a bakery in Belfast NI.

My grandmother was a WASP. SHE taught me to fly and I started passing that on to our daughters when they could reach the controls. The Mrs just likes to sit in the right seat and drink her coffee.