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HumorMy favorite way to piss off libfems
Whenever I see one participating in the smear campaign against JKR, or bragging about how fine she is with letting men in our spaces, my go-to response has been "It's OK. I forgive you. Youre a product of your time. The vast majority of women throughout human history have never been pro woman and I can't fault you for it anymore than I could fault them"
This always seems to annoy them more than any facts or logic does.
Interesting article.
The one next to it about the 8000 year old burial with a dog in it annoyed me. They always talk about “faithful hounds” with this sort of thing as if the dog chose it. Those poor animals were killed.
They always talk about “faithful hounds” with this sort of thing as if the dog chose it. Those poor animals were killed.
It's interesting isnt it? It wades into a man's sense of ownership - They use to call mastery of nature. The perceived belief that they do and in their own divine right "own" living things, such as dogs and animals. With that comes there "god given right" to kill & eat.
Though I cannot really argue when the sacrifice of animals and people appears to have been very prevalent throughout known history. Still, worth a ponder.
Not just men’s graves, either. There was a dig in England on a Time Team episode where a woman - Roman era, iirc - had a little dog buried with her.
Then of course there are all the poor horses in tombs.
That's a gruesome part of burial history; however, there is much evidence that throughout many eras of prehistory graves weren't closed-off units, but frequently reopened to include more burial offerings, rearrange the bones, take out older objects, or include new burials next to the original one. So there's a likelihood that not all animal companions were sacrificed specifically for the owner's deaths.
“Our modern society is like a blip in the timeline of human history,” said Chambers. “The truth is that human-dog relationships have not looked like they do in Western industrialized societies for most of human history, and looking at traditional societies can offer a wider vision.”
The findings showed that women’s involvement with dogs correlated with a rise in pet “personhood,” affording them advantages such as a given name, sleeping on furniture or being ceremoniously mourned at passing." 😢