Yeah I have a friend who’s really into the bronze age, and I just think it’s fascinating how the stories we tell and the ways we reinterpret stories says so much about us. Fiction is a tool to share our values and ideas in a palatable and entertaining way, even if we don’t mean to do so.

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I could never go down on her, I’d just keep getting distracted by the cute snakes

Also within mythology different people completely change the story to fit their narratives. There are stories of Medusa where she’s just an ancient monster from before the Olympian age.

Also to add to your bit about the Amazons, it’s likely that they were just the mythologization of the people of the Eurasian steppes such as the Scythians. They had a lot less divisions in gender than the Greeks including female warriors and leaders. To the Greeks that’s the same as a society completely run by women who are “less of women” where men are subjugated (though be aware, I’m telling this story, and that right there was a parallel I threw in to compare the Greeks to modern anti feminists, just like how bits of mythology got tweaked as they entered new cultures and contexts). But yeah Tomyris of Scythia is said to have killed Cyrus the Great of Persia. And the Romans continued the Greek tradition of accusing any society where women could hold the same power as men of being a matriarchy totally comparable to their patriarchy, something we have no evidence of ever being a thing historically.

Congrats! Nothing better than being cancer free, except maybe being cancer free for free.

Ah yeah that sucks. I’m an industrial engineer and routinely days of heavy snow have been “show up to work an hour or two late because of the snow, get sent home with pay after an hour because nobody showed up and the power is about to go out”

The GDR’s is exactly what I would expect out of German communism. “We have the two working classes: laborers and engineers”

That’s fair, i just suspect that that element won’t be upheld and am still bitter that it wasn’t then

Yeah that’s straight up an attempt to relegalize segregation

Full faith and credit never stopped the refusal of some states to recognize other states’ gay marriages. It should have but didn’t

“We shipped billions of dollars of products to them free of charge and they dare not thank us”

The Shepherds Crown will get you, but it’s one of his best books

Turns out he thinks the Zulus hold an inalienable right to the whole of Myanmar /s

That’s not even biblical. Israel has never controlled fucking Tehran, and they were routinely in exile in Iraq and Syria, not as conquerors but as conquered. No fuccabee only believes this because he’s pro genocide, anti brown people, and hates Muslims more than jews.

Yeah as someone who hoarded at a worse stage of her life and struggles with it still, the piles felt like safety and security, but they also felt overwhelming and unassailable. You have to deal with the mental health issues and nonjudgementally get the person to be ok with the cleaning bit by bit. To this day big cleans are mentally and emotionally exhausting for me, it’s just that I find messes to be also extremely stressful.

As an American I’ve long supported assisting rebels, but going to war is just as likely to backfire as it is to succeed.

Yep, and that’s why it’s not just stuff like this, but also stuff like them being gay, or Alex Jones watching trans porn, or boebert getting caught giving a handy at a play.

It feels very reminiscent of “well don’t dress like that then”

That’s me. It’s simple. You live a cheap life with a good career

Onions, beans, cheddar, and of course the spaghetti. Gotta go with a 5 way