Your new role model

[sabotabby]

Your goal, ladies, gentlemen, genderqueer, and sundry others, is to be more like Dorli Rainey, badass octogenarian. This retired schoolteacher has the Seattle PD quaking in their boots so hard they had to pepper-spray her, lest she foment global insurrection against their ruling class masters. This was not enough to keep a superheroine like Rainey down, and she got right back up and continues to fight the Man.

May we all follow her example and become just a little more awesome.

Comments

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

Fuck that noise!

When im 80 im gonna be snorting heroin, and stealing.

Another bit of awesome in Seattle.

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

I'm getting Screw Us and We Multiply tattooed somewhere. She's freakin' epic.

[cannibal-x.livejournal.com]

Yes! I saw her interviewed on CBC Newsworld!

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I love it when older people are still active and doing awesome things. In the first civil disobedience action I was ever in, back in the 80s, I was partnered with an elderly woman. When the cops searched us after we were arrested, they found her heart medication in her purse, and one of them asked "Isn't all this protesting bad for your heart, ma'am?"

Her answer: "Not as bad as a nuclear war would be, dear."

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

I want her to adopt me. I've taken to calling her "grandma" event hough we've never met.

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

ahem *though

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Ruth Gordon, Katharine Hepburn, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Dorli Rainey. My role models.