iwriteaboutfeminism:Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Sophie Tucker??!? Let me tell you something a
iwriteaboutfeminism:Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Sophie Tucker??!? Let me tell you something about Sophie. Freakin. Tucker.She was told she was “too fat and ugly” to become a performer, she went on to become one of the most famous performers of the first half of the 20th Century.She was bisexualShe sang songs about being overweight and loving it. “I don’t care what I weigh, I eat pie every day…”She had a ton of sex, and was totally vocal about it. She even created Sophie Tucker’s Sex School to get more women to open up sexually and tore down taboos as a female sex symbol and female liberator, saying, “Women can crave sex too”She was friendly with 7 of the 11 U.S. presidents that held office in her lifetimeThe Beatles referred to her as their “favorite American group”She was married three times and was independent as heck, “I won’t spend my life in a kitchen…I want fun.”And she was friends and played cards regularly with the notorious Al Capone.This woman was BADASS, and a trailblazer for feminism in entertainment, but has somehow been forgotten overtime. Remember Sophie Tucker, the last of the Red Hot Mommas. -- source link