There are always at least two ways to reach equality. Why put people on the currency at all? Remove the men, bingo, you have equality. Does anyone really form their views of gender and/or historical significance from their wallets??
Harriet Tubman. She was born a slave and escaped to freedom. After that, most people would hide under the bed with PTSD whenever someone said “cotton.” Instead, she went back, over and over again, rescuing others. She also, as an old woman, underwent brain surgery without anesthesia. Big brass ovaries, that one.
Jackson could go on the $50–topless and riding a shark.
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Has it occurred to you that you don’t know their names because they aren’t given the recognition they deserve, like you know, being put on currency? Stuff like that.
I love the idea of Theodore Roosevelt but anything that gets Jackson off the $20 is a good thing. I like the idea Harriet Tubman. She leads my choices of those not named Theodore Roosevelt. But to get Jackson off the $20 I would accept most any reasonable argument.
If Ayn Rand is honored on U.S. currency, I will personally secede from the union.
Ellen Ripley.
That’s a statement about yourself and/or your education, not a statement about the women in the suggestions. Putting women on our currency would be a statement about raising the visibility of the women who contributed to America’s greatness.
Of course, in another fifty years, all money will be electronic and the subject will be moot.
That said, I’m in the Anybody-But-Reagan camp.
In other banknote-related news:
The European Bank has put out a new 20 Euro … uh, euro. In order to promote it they’ve developed a new version of that hip, new, video game all the kids are playing: Tetris!
It’s a browser based-Tetris game that will teach you all the sexy new security features built into new bills.
And speaking of sexy - check out the gorgeous new pixel art that Norway is implementing on the back of their currency. Seriously - that is some genuinely beautiful bank note material. Very modern and cool.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Betsy Ross. Not my favorite but I still believe she would be an excellent choice.
The previously mention **Grace Hopper **would be the best selection because she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves and this might bring her name out of the shadows.
Sally Ride would also be a good candidate. We need more science people and fewer politicians in circulation.
And, just for shits and giggles, I would love to see Koko Taylor on a twenty dollar bill! I’d break one every time I ordered a drink.
Billie Holiday. Billie Fucking Holiday.
you want to come up with someone who defined America while facing racism and misogyny every day, you would be hard pressed to some up with anyone more suited.
I read the Wiki entry on Grace Hopper. Much respect - a great choice, next to Sojourner Truth and a few other. But Billie Holiday - wow.
That’s who I came in to suggest.
Janis Joplin
Mama Cass
Virginia Masters
ameila earheart
Eleanor roosevelt
I wouldn’t go that far. But I agree with you in the sense of opposing anyone whose presence is a clear victory for either the Democrats or, as in the case of Rand, the Republicans.
Grace Hopper works as a bipartisan choice, but I think it too obvious that if not for being a woman, she would have no chance of selection.
Harriet Tubman, I think, is a great choice. The Underground Railroad is unsurpassed in its heroism and in its centrality to American history. And Tubman is its best known figure.
If the female doesn’t have to be famous, I’d vote for children looking at the globe. such as on the Taiwan $1000 (equivalent of approximately US$30) bill:
is there any reason only one needs to be added? i mean, we have dozens and dozens of different quarters in circulation right now, and I don’t hear stories of people confusing them?
Another vote for Admiral Hopper.
I will join that secession movement.
Yeah, good luck with that. Ask most kids nowadays and they think Hamilton & Franklin are “dead presidents”. :rolleyes:
Let’s put her on the one mill piece.
Would be good except that the story about her making the first flag, and giving it to Washington, is unproven.
I am missing that. She is as well known as Von Neumann, who did his important work in the US, and is far more important to computer history. Everyone still uses the Von Neumann architechture, but Hopper’s COBOL is dying. And she is much more well known than Eckert and Mauchly, each of whom is clearly more important than her to computer history.
Accusations that the choosen woman is there solely because of gender are inevitable. But I would avoid making those accusations fair ones. So let’s put on someone from an area of achievement where women really and clearly achieved as much, or more, than any man, such a feminism, abolitionism, or, maybe, entertainment. Feminism has already been done (Anthony), so I favored abolitionism earlier in the thread.
As for entertainment, I’d be OK with Garland and Merman, in an image possible taken from a TV show where they appeared together. They were Democrat and Republican, respectively.