Jezebel’s name has come to represent the symbol of an uppity, slutty woman. But who was she, really?
Jezebel: Great Sluts of History

Jezebel’s name has come to represent the symbol of an uppity, slutty woman. But who was she, really?
Without warning/As a whirlwind swoops on an oak/Love shakes my heart
At age thirteen, she was living on the streets, sleeping in card boxes and scavenging for food from trash cans. Sometime around then she made her first of four marriages; this one very short-lived.
At age 15, Josephine would join the St. Louis Chorus vaudeville show, and from there, her talent springboarded her to New York City.
Among Hedy’s inventions was an improved traffic stoplight, and a fizzy beverage tablet that was not a hit. But her main claim to fame, today, as an inventor, was her co-creation (with composer George Antheil) of frequency hopping spread-spectrum.
As an American, it is sometimes impossible (and other times, all too easy), to imagine what we would do – what I would do – if my beloved country was taken over by religious extremists. Malala Yousefzai doesn’t have to imagine; she’s living it. And she has the bullet wounds to prove it. A SWAT…