"She Gave His Father A Round House Kick To The Face": 24 Stories About Moms Being So Incredibly Badass That I'm Now Convinced They're Actual Superheroes

“My mom was using an electric knife to cut some meat and accidentally sliced her finger to the bone. With barely a thought she called us kids over, pulled the skin and flesh aside, and proceeded to describe the fat, tendon, and bone. That, fellow Redditors, is badass.”

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"She also started a multi-million dollar travel business from scratch with $1000 in her pocket and a baby (me) under her desk." 

"But there is a guy walking around today that likely wouldn't have been had she not been there. When he showed up at the hospital to visit her, I had never seen such a humble look in my entire life. He was so sad to have caused her injuries but so grateful that she saved his life that it took over his entire appearance. Words can't do his expression and countenance justice." 

"She ended up having her front tooth through her upper lip due to being punched in the face, but she got me that poster like she promised."  

"My grandmother was the real badass, though. She was a German citizen and was offered protective custody during the war by the Japanese. She didn't have to go to the camp, but she chose to as she had renounced her German citizenship. She was married to a Dutchman and took that nationality instead. My Oma smuggled a wealth of jewelry into the camp and saved most of it, trading the rest for medicine and food. She also kept parts of the secret radio the prisoners had. Either infraction, the jewelry or the radio, would have earned her an immediate death sentence, probably by beheading by sword.I have been asked why she chose the dangers of the camp over the relative safety of the custody offered by the Japanese. She always told us that she was no man's whore and she wasn't going to serve any man against her will. Apparently the protective custody was little more than being a sex slave."

"The owner didn't even wake up until he heard the fire trucks, and by now the whole neighborhood was outside, wondering what the hell my mother and I were doing with two garden hoses in our pajamas with a bunch of police men and three fire trucks. It was then that I realized my mom was badass." 

"I think he just pinched me really hard; he didn't break any skin or anything. Anyway, after hearing this, she basically spearheaded this guy getting fired from the school district and got him blacklisted. I don't know if he got jail time, but she totally ruined his career. I realize this doesn't seem like a huge thing in comparison to other 'badass' mother posts, but it means a lot to know how protected I was."