AfterEllen's Top 100

[such_heights]

After Ellen posted their Hot 100 -- for the third year in a row, queer women prove to have excellent taste! Also, it is such a refreshing change from the lists you get in men's magazines -- here, qualifiers for hotness include things like 'does great activist work'.

The reactions of celebrities involved are also of the win. For instance, if I didn't have enough reasons to watch T:TSCC already:

Lena Headey [on falling from No. 4 in 2007 to No. 10 in 2008]: "My God, I have to go to the gym! I've fallen six. That hurts...Vote for me! Vote for me, I'll change the world! [laughs]"

(She's back up to number three this year, hee.)

So, for fun and frolics:

my five favourite women who made the list


Rachel Maddow



Incredibly smart, savvy and entertaining, a blogger and One Of Us who's using her powers for good, and out and awesome -- that's pretty hot.

Tina Fey



There can never be enough women proving that no, seriously, we can do comedy -- everything Tina Fey does is golden, from 30 Rock to Saturday Night Live. I, um, may her love her best for writing 'Mean Girls'. Tell no one.

Katee Sackhoff



She's spectacular on-screen as the ultimate badass Kara Thrace, and she's charming and pretty hardcore her own self off-screen too. For instance, she bikes. Sometimes with Tricia Helfer. ♥

Michelle Obama



You lot in the States got yourself a pretty wonderful First Lady. The list of Somewhat Embarrassing Things Amy Has Cried At includes this speech she gave to girls at a school in Islington, London.

Amanda Palmer



Not only does Amanda Palmer front one of my favourite bands, The Dresden Dolls, making her a fantastic writer, singer, pianist and performer, she's also a one-woman 'fuck you' to the patriarchy, to restrictive norms of feminine beauty, to everything that makes me so crazy, and always with admirable articulateness, good humour, and all-round win.

my five favourite women who didn't make the list


Freema Agyeman



Her acting makes me laugh, makes me cry (haters to the left), and her interviews make me clap in glee a little bit with how utterly adorkable she is. She's been a fabulous addition to the New Who gang and to the BBC's larger oeuvre of great actors.

Vienna Teng



An artist I'd never have discovered without the All-Knowing Flist, I can't imagine my music collection without her albums now. She's got a voice gorgeous enough to give you shivers, and that's not the only way she's stunning.

Regina Spektor



For one, she has one of the best smiles ever. Then she's written some of my favourite music, been a role model for a whole new generation of female musicians, and she's playing in the UK this summer, where I shall see her! My arms, they do this: \o/

Eve Myles



Look, I love all the Torchwood cast, you know I do, but now Burn and Naoko have gone, Eve Myles is the best actor in it. Unflinchingly fabulous on-screen and delightfully down to earth in interviews, she's obviously having a brilliant time, and is very hot for it.

Emma Thompson



From the same batch of UK arts types as Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, she's a Cambridge graduate, an Oscar-winning actor and writer, and a total hero for countless British women.

Do share your personal picks in the comments!

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Comments

[wildestranger]

Yay on all of these - I too cried when I read Michelle Obama's speech. She continues to amaze me with her awesomeness. And Amanda Fucking Palmer, who is possibly the most wonderful and brilliant human being in the world: that voice, that attitude, that charisma, that charm, that determination to take on all the sexism and homophobia in the world. I am stupidly in awe of her.

[such_heights]

Eeee! Omg, Amanda Palmer. I got to meet her after she'd done a show in Sheffield, and we hugged, and it was probably the most awesome thing ever. She's SO wonderful.

[tirwen-star03.livejournal.com]

This post fills me with such squeee! Particularly for Rachel, Tina, Regina, and Emma.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

*boggles* I'd seen that Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer story linked before, but that was before I knew who they were. Wow!

Emma Thompson is definitely my hero.

[glass-icarus.livejournal.com]

First Lady! \o/ &hearts also, TINA FEYYYYYY. (i did not know she wrote Mean Girls, WHAT.)

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

I may be IN LOVE with Tina Fey like hard. *dies* Seriously, she is the funniest person ever and I mean DAMN her Palin is wonderous.

And yeah, Emma Thompson, *huggles*

EDIT: That is also the best Rachel Maddow picture!

Double EDIT: I am reading the list now and DAMN there are so many good ladies on here!

[emei.livejournal.com]

Ooh. That is a great list - though I don't recognise half of the women on it.

I don't know how I've missed Vienna Teng. She's fabulous and just my kind of music. Thank you for mentioning her! And I do agree with the love for Regina Spektor.

Favorites on the list: Keira Knightley, Penelope Cruz, Cate Blanchett (her performance as Bob Dylan - plain amazing), and Salma Hayek.

My personal list would include Audrey Tatou, musician Frida Hyvönen (http://www.myspace.com/fridahyvonen), lesbian blogger & language geek of rang <a href="http://www.sara.kipara.se/2>Sara Lövestam</a> and Johanna Sigurdardottir - the first openly gay prime minister in the world.

[gorgeousnerd]

Aw, I didn't get to vote on the list this year. I'm glad to see the results were so good, though!

Also, that biking post? BROKE MY BRAIN. I'll be drooling quietly in a corner for a while.

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Fun! Although the sheer number of "come hither" poses makes me sad. Your pictures are much better! M.

[magic-at-mungos.livejournal.com]

Freema hell yeah. Plus, huge crush on Naoko Mori over here.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Nice list (and I agree on the awesomeness) and that goes for your picks, too. I don't know Vienna; I'll check out her music.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I voted for Freema in the top 100, and I'm a little bitter she didn't get through. Next year, I'll rally the troops fangirls.

[such_heights]

I'm confused by the notion that people *don't* have a crush on Vienna Teng. She is so awesome! ♥

[such_heights]

Yaaay! *hearts for all*

[such_heights]

SO HOT, I cannot even. :D

[such_heights]

Eee! And I know, I knew there was a reason it resonated so much with me despite being a theoretically shallow film. Not so much!

[such_heights]

:D :D :D

Every one of those women makes my heart go boom!

[such_heights]

Oh, you've got some completely fabulous suggestions there! I don't know nearly as much about Sigurdardottir as I'd like to, for instance.

[such_heights]

I had no idea it was that time again! Still, I trust other queers to vote in my absence. :D

Dude, for serious, Starbuck + Six + motorbikes = ULTIMATE BRAIN MELT. :D

[such_heights]

I can't decide my strongest emotion on that -- either I'm sad that's the way they feel they need to be hot, or we're co-opting a male gaze and subverting it. It's not ideal either way. Anyway, I'm happy to attempt to provide picspams of great justice!

[such_heights]

\o/!!! God, I love them both so much! :D

[such_heights]

\o/! And you definitely should check out Vienna Teng, she's really fabulous if you're into singer-songwriter type stuff.

[such_heights]

That's a FABULOUS idea and we should really get on that! I completely missed the vote this year, for the fail.

[bornofstars.livejournal.com]

Freema, Vienna, Regina, and Emma = awesome, I completely agree! What a fabulous idea.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Lena Headey is amazing in T:SCC -- Sarah Connor combines strength, determination, sexiness, and pure awesome ass-kicking. AND she does all of this with her main role being that of a mother, which you almost never see on television. I have so much admiration for her; if Sarah Connor were a real person I would probably stalk her. :)

Vienna! Freema! Katee! (That is a gorgeous pic!)

I'm not sure if you've ever heard me talk Alias, but two of my favourite actresses ever are Jennifer Garner & Lena Olin -- both compelling, stunning, and kickass.

[magic-at-mungos.livejournal.com]

Part of what the reason why I <3 New!Who!

[burningmarl.livejournal.com]

Haahaha, I was really unimpressed x] just because of butch&woc represenattion. But mainly butch ID, I mean, they just don't look like the women down the pub. I dunno. That said, I'd shag a few of these, but my bb Salma was at 83 :((((

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Emma Thompson! !!!! !!!
Okay, so she's older than my mother. So is Sela Ward. *hides*

That photo of Amanda Palmer is the best thing I've seen in a while. I say woohoo and \o/ and I have got to track down some Dresden Dolls.

Penny Wong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Wong), I think, should go on the list. For being Australia's gay Christian Minister for Climate Change and Water.

[munditia.livejournal.com]

Don't you confuse my sexual orientation with that sort of picspam. Damn.

May I also add a word in favour of Mary McDonnell (http://www.galacticabbs.com/gallery_images/1203648592/gallery_119_620329.jpg) and Claudia Black (http://imgsrv1.pxdrive.com/pics/norm/15576.jpg)? :P