Twitter’s Answer To ‘Name 5 Achievements By Women’ Is The Most Severe Burn For Patriarchy

Did you know that in ancient times women were so discouraged from writing books that they had to write under male aliases? In fact, the times were so bad that even if a woman author wrote a book under her name, nobody would read it simply because it was written by a woman. You know why? Because we live in an essentially male-dominated society.

Yes, patriarchy has been around for centuries and despite efforts, the conditioning that we have undergone cannot be wiped away in a matter of years. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try and that’s exactly what Twitter did.

It so happened that a Twitter user, Dr. James Kent decided to challenge the knowledge of netizens with a quite an odd question.

Now, we don’t what the motive behind his question was. But, if you know anything about the Internet, you can be sure that people pull a Barney Stinson and are always ready to say, “Challenge Accepted!”

Within moments, people on Twitter started dishing out their nuggets of wisdom and it was an epic burn for patriarchy. See for yourself!

The list goes on…

Well…Marie Currie's theory of radioactivity, & discovery of radium and polonium. Hedy Lamarr developed spread spectrum tech, led to wi-fi and bluetooth. Grace Hopper invented computer programming. WWII women code breakers, contributing to allied victory. Wtf is his point?

— ursalette🗽 🇺🇸 (@Ursalette) December 4, 2017

Some had their own stories to tell!

oAll I can see from my window is my Oleander & lemon geranium hedging! I planted those! Having lived for almost 20 years without men in my life I can say I have made a life for myself too. (Why restrict it to what people can see out the window?) Strange person.

— Pat in exile – more alarmed than alert 🇨🇾🇪🇺 (@Dissentra) December 9, 2017

One desi woman, Sandhya Ramesh’s answers were the biggest slap on patriarchy’s face.

1. Proud to be a woman!

It runs GPS, whose underlying technology was developed by Hedy Lamarr, who also developed the tech for wifi, bluetooth, CDMA. The GPS device is a computer, which was partly invented by Grace Hopper along with the first compiler, and the first program written by Ada Lovelace.

— Sandhya Ramesh (@sandygrains) December 21, 2017

2. I hope it’s not too late to say… Girl power!

Other things that might be in the trash: medical syringe invented by Letitia Geer and is traditionally kept in the fridge invented by Florence Parpart, diapers invented by Maria Allen, and made disposable by Valerie Gordon, Lil Wettergren.

— Sandhya Ramesh (@sandygrains) December 21, 2017

3. This is amazing! *stares with awe*

> bulletproof material Kevlar by Stephanie Kwolek, radio guidance system for torpedoes by Hedy Lamarr again, chocolate chip cookies by Ruth Wakefield, monopoly the game by Elizabeth Magie.

— Sandhya Ramesh (@sandygrains) December 21, 2017

4. I think the point is crystal clear now.

Furthermore, these are just inventions. I haven’t even started counting improving existing designs and practices like iron board, car, pizza cutters, algorithms, paediatric studies, mathematical theorems, experimentation as a practice in physics, stellar classification, WHAT NOT!

— Sandhya Ramesh (@sandygrains) December 21, 2017

5. Exactly!

Okay, yeah. I made up that bit about the car and the beer but ugh, everyone with a penis should just shut up now. It’s not even just sexism, it’s stupidly embarrassing to be this ignorant and blind. – fin –

— Sandhya Ramesh (@sandygrains) December 21, 2017

People agreed with her and obviously had more to add to her already brilliant point. They were also full of praise for her thread.

1. Sorry, was patriarchy trying to prove a point? Women were too busy being awesome!

Silent film star Florence Lawrence is credited with inventing automobile turn signals and brake lights. https://t.co/lSv4HLvE2l

— Daniel Eagan (@Film_Legacy) December 21, 2017

2. Yaaaasss… Queens be slayin’!

Proud to have worked on Nonlinear optics (specifically two photon absorption) for my PhD , which can be studied only with high intensity light sources like lasers. But this phenomenon was predicted by Maria Goeppert-Mayer decades before the invention of lasers 🙂

— AB (@ajit_bhaskar) December 21, 2017

2. Indeed she is!

YOU are my SHERO. Thank you.

— Nina J. Rhys she/her (@ANGRYANDFIREDUP) December 21, 2017

3. She even became an inspiration for young minds.

thank you for writing this. We have a book on women inventors that the dotter loves, will share this with her too. fully inspiring.

— Saurabh Gupta (@cowvala) December 22, 2017

So, ladies next time someone has the audacity to demean you, keep this list handy to serve them revenge, freezing cold. Until then, patriarchy can soothe its burns with some aloe.

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