Name one contemporary American female that women can look up?

Hannah Einbinder, Ziwe, Chloe Sevigny, Drew Barrymore, Patti Smith, AOC, Jennifer Coolidge, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Meg Stalter, Jean Smart, Chanel Miller, Maggie Smith. I mean I could go on, but I think by "in the headlines" you mean the Daily Mail or the NY Post so none of these people would qualify. Good luck with your little quest Dookie McLameBrain.

Brendad Ickson

Gretchen Whitmer. Tough as nails without being a cunt about it. Hopefully our future president

[quote]that doesn't have some negative aspect to their nature?

Nobody - male or female - lacks any negative aspect. We're all flawed. Demanding some kind of unrealistic purity is unrealistic and it'll also be conditional on the values and prejudices of the person viewing her.

But if you want admirable women, there are plenty. Dolly Parton? Senator Cortez Masto? Oprah Winfrey?

[quote]Elizabeth Holme's sentencing

Oh, dear. It's Elizabeth Holmes's sentencing.

[quote]that doesn't have some negative aspect to their nature?

Oh, dear. It's who doesn't have some negative aspect to their nature?

Another vote for Dolly. Pride of place though in a different though equally important way. I'm the one rooting for Gretchen

Nancy Pelosi.

Don't forget me!

Kimberly "Sweet Brown" Wilkins

Google is pretty good. They can look up most of them.

R1 You look up to Chloe Sevigny?

OP is a racist misogynist simpleton.

Me of course.

If you're a right-winger, you'd probably admire Amy Coney Barrett. Which shows how subjective these things are.

Actually no r15. I'm conservative but never trusted her.

Our very own ElderLez!

R16 OK, you're probably just a fiscal conservative if you're on DL. But she's a social and fiscal conservative.

[quote]Name one contemporary American female that women can look up?

Their own mother. If that doesn't qualify, then no one will. SAD! I guess OP's mom didn't make the list either.

Go to bed 19

Ahem, I meant R19

Time for me to go to bed.

My vote goes to Martha Nussbaum

I enjoyed Linda Ronstadt’s take on immigration in her new book, Feels Like Home, a tribute to the the Tucson/Sonoran borderland where she grew up.

@r9, Susan, don't worry, straight men everywhere will always look up to your world-class knockers... What's above them, not so much 😏

What about meeee?

Obama making a stupid, self-serving claim about her hairstyle choices doesn’t mean I can’t admire her. Good grief!

Obama has always been obnoxious frau and now she sounds immature too.

But this American obsession with looking up at housewives as some role models are so 18th century. If someone insist on being a woke anti-racist pro black activist couldn't he find a black woman who is not known for being a wife, but who is known for her own career?

[quote]Name one contemporary American female that women can look up?

WHOM!

I'm a teacher. Teenaged girls love Taylor Swift.

OP is a BRF loon so he/she/it probably wants this thread to turn into something Markle-related.

[Quote]Name one contemporary American female that women can look up?

Right here, sweetie. It's all of them:

She was special to me!

Hillary! I'm with her, always and forever!

Stacey Abrams

Candy Bure.

My Aunt Fanny...

OP thinks Black women explaining their hair is "grievance."

What a dick.

Martha Nussbaum has a little bit scandalous personal life for an academic, but I consider that something to look up to! Michelle Obama would make my list easily. Patti Smith, Elena Kagan, Lisa Murkowski, Tammy Duckworth, Anne Tyler…there are many.

Female PhDs giving lectures

[quote] Their own mother

R19 is spot on! There are millions of women in America, ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Nameless, ungonged, completely unknown to anyone outside of their neighborhood/town, of their own volition and drive, they put themselves out to make the world a better place. THEY are the women to look up/aspire to..

TO WHOM, r29 and OP.

R38 She needs it explained to her that white people have never had a problem with her hair. It's not her place to explain how we feel about something to us.

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a phony cunt.

I like Trisha Paytas she's always right. I'd emulate her if I was a girl

Rita Moreno is all things to all people in all places at all times.

Jessica Alves

White people DO have a problem with black hair. There’s policies in different schools and work places that forbid black hairstyles.

And then when a black person speaks up about it, they’re told they’re insane.

That’s just how racism always works through. Racists being racist and then saying “omg I didn’t do anything” cause they never own up to shit.

David Duke doesn’t even believe he’s a racist, that’s enough to tell you how the white brain works.

David Duke = "the white brain"? That's racist.

Camille Paglia (except for that weird shit she said in the 80's about pedo stuff, she was likely stoned and/or speaking figuratively anyway) but she's my fave.

If I do say so myself.

R49 If you want to know how someone feels, ask them. It's not my job to serve as a whipping post for a self-pitying narcissist who couldn't care less if I live or die. I do not have a problem with natural afro hair. Jesus!

[quote]Michelle Obama's grievance about the perception of her hair from white people

WTF OP? Racist much? Fucking snowflake.

Hearing black people talk about their hair is exhausting.

NEWS FLASH: We don't want to touch it. We don't care how you style it.