It’s International Women's Day... [update 2]

… so here are some real international women.  Women who make you go :

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In no particular order Katarina Witt, Maureen O'Hara, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Ursula Andress, sopranos Anna Moffo, Anna Netrebko & Waltraud Meier, Claudia Cardinale, Gina Lollabrigida, Elle McPherson, Isabelle Adjani . . .    

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. .  . and Diana Rigg...

 

And by the way, you know the sexiest part of a real woman?

Her brain.

[Hat tip for most: Kim du Toit’s Weekend Women]

UPDATE 1:  Oops.  The feminists at the Hand Mirror think I may have seriously misunderstood what International Women’s Day is about.  I protest!  Admiring women is a serious matter!  As is real feminism, which isn’t about either man-hating or beauty-denial.  As Wendy McElroy insists at iFeminists.Com, the real 21st

    “The 21st-century feminist is anyone — female or male — who rejects gender privilege and demands real equality for men and women under the law.”

One law for all. And in everything else vive la difference! Who could honestly disagree?

UPDATE 2: Right on cue, The Telegraph produces a gallery of film’s great femmes fatales, starting with the great Allida Valli, who we all remember as Kira in Noi Vivi (We the Living), don’t we.