03-24-2016, 04:13 AM | #1061 |
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Glad you're alright Eärniel! Just tapped a keg of whisky, dip in. Tis a good time to drink.
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03-25-2016, 01:01 AM | #1062 |
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Good Friday to all of you.
March 25 was the Downfall of the Lord of the Rings with the destruction of the One Ring. |
03-25-2016, 03:38 AM | #1063 |
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All the more reason to drink then, bottoms up!
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03-25-2016, 01:30 PM | #1064 |
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To that, I'll gladly drink. Ad fundum!
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03-25-2016, 04:08 PM | #1065 |
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Glad to hear y'all are alright.
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03-28-2016, 10:38 AM | #1066 |
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No, I show it to them at the beginning of the new year. It's a wonderful preventative measure. Of course this sort of thing only works if you're willing to back it up with action...
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03-28-2016, 10:40 AM | #1067 |
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Well, the days I wasn't here sure were eventful. I'm glad to hear you're okay, Earn!
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Ah, if only I had known that term when my 4-yearl-old nephew ambushed me a while ago with the question whether there were girl-knights. I said yes, but for a moment I had a real difficult dilemma trying to decide what was the right answer: the historical one (hardly), the archaeological one (warrior women, yes), the fictional one (nope, just damsels in distress) or the fairy-tale one (not traditionally, no).
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04-05-2016, 11:59 AM | #1071 |
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"No, but that's because back then boys didn't yet understand that girls are just as awesome as boys and can do anything they want to do.
Fortunately boys got a bit smarter since then."
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04-05-2016, 12:39 PM | #1072 |
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Slightly smarter
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On the other hand, outside literature – Éowyn, for instance – and the onna-bugeisha (admittedly rare, all members of nobility), there is Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from the French borderlands; Hua Mulan, who lived about the same time as King Arthur, a woman whose historicity (like Arthur’s) is periodically questioned (personally, I believe she was a real person); Queen Boudica; Lagertha the Shieldmaiden, whose sobriquet Éowyn assumes; Æthelburg of Wessex; Queen Æthelflæd of Mercia, who also led her army in battle to defeat both the Danes and the Welsh (it wasn’t wise to cross Anglo-Saxon queens!); and innumerable others into recent days. When war is forced upon them, however, I have noticed that women are as courageous as men, though perhaps not as forward in their resistance. Aubrey Hepburn smuggled messages and weapons as a teenager in the Netherlands during the Nazi Occupation; and hers was but a single tale among thousands upon thousands. This might be topical: I found it amusing. Somehow, I doubt the ring will cross the Channel again. |
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But in the case of women actively wanting to go to a battlefield, I think the stumbling blocks they encountered were greater than (and invisible to) the men of their age. Take Joan of Arc for example, if I recall correctly. she had to get special dispensation from the Pope to wear a pair of pants. Dispensation from the Pope. The Pope! For pants. Pants! I mean, seriously. Those male clothes is what got her executed eventually too. She had also to get permission to wear armour. No male soldier would have had that problem. Just think of the many laws men have instated throughout the history of mankind to specifically keep women out of commerce, out of governance (and law-making), out of art and literature, out of war, out of... basically anything that men saw as uniquely theirs. Often it is not a case of what women could do, but in what they were allowed to do on pain of death, torture or social ostracism. Quote:
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That's an incredibly sexist view Alcuin.
As to art and war I'm just amazed Panama hasn't a better collection. Leave that to the Swiss I guess? That's if you wish to be topical. Do you agree with the French position? Last edited by Butterbeer : 04-06-2016 at 04:29 PM. |
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Let's play nice people.
Yeah, funny thing is that I did notice that, but the rest of that sentence somehow rubbed me the wrong way that I appear to have skipped it entirely when contructing my reply. *now off to find more dry hankerchiefs* Bloody pollen. *grumble* |
04-08-2016, 02:54 PM | #1078 |
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Ugh, the pollens have gotten to me too.
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04-08-2016, 07:04 PM | #1079 |
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As a woman, I didn't find his comments sexist at all. He was just stating what history claims. Women typically don't want to go to war, but if war comes to them, most aren't going to just sit around and wait for their men to save them.
I, for one, do not want to go to war. I have no desire to kill someone just because I'm ordered to by the higher ups before the other person can kill me. But if that same war came knocking on my door, I'm going to take up arms and defend my family, whether or not my husband is at my side or not. History has been known to brush off the minority in favor of the majority, which is mainly men. Men tend to write history, so they make themselves look better. But, I digress. I'm with Earniel and Mari, I hate pollen too
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Except for the fact that historically speaking, even up to present day there are laws enacted to keep women away from combat, whether they want to or otherwise. At any rate, had the combat ban been lifted sooner and pay scale equalized I'd have no problem signing up for military service. War happens regardless and some people simply need to be killed. Besides my tax dollars fund it; I have no qualms taking advantage of the benefits that would be offered by going into combat arms.
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