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“People were just smaller back then”

Nope. Fat people have always been here, aren’t going anywhere, and have always been beautiful and worthy of respect.

Warrior women is one of my favorite historical things to learn about.

A Gallery of Ancient, Medieval, & Modern Warrior Women

The first female warrior attested to historically is Queen Ahhotep I of Egypt (l. c. 1570-1530 BCE) who put down a rebellion by the Hyksos when her son, Ahmose I, was campaigning against the Nubians. In literature, the first mention of women warriors comes from Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE), which references the Amazons.

Whether attested to by historical or literary documents, women warriors are nothing new. According to Greek mythology, Epipole of Carystus disguised herself as a man to fight in the Trojan War, and the Assyrian queen regent Sammu-Ramat (r. 811-806 BCE) is said to have led troops and is also believed to be the inspiration for the legendary warrior queen Semiramis. It is possible that Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (r. 1479-1458 BCE) did the same long before Sammu-Ramat, but this has been challenged.

Recent criticism claiming that women warriors are somehow an invention of 21st-century revisionist historians is untenable as historical and literary works spanning thousands of years argue otherwise. The following image gallery presents a sample of ancient, medieval, and modern warrior women from around the world.

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I love bog bodies, they’re so interesting

Lindow Man

The Lindow Man (officially Lindow III) is the top half of a male body, found preserved in a peat bog in Cheshire, England.

The peat bogs at Lindow Moss date back to the last ice age and were formed by holes of melting ice; they are now a tenth of their original size. Bogs often lead to the preservation of organic materials, particularly human remains, being acidic, cold, and devoid of oxygen. The brown colour of the skin, leathery texture, and appearance of human remains preserved in a bog are due to a type of moss that grows in bogs and when dead, lets out a substance that causes a tanning process.

During 1980s CE a series of finds were made at Lindow Moss by workers at a peat shredding mill (peat was then being harvested as fuel). These discoveries were small parts of the human anatomy, for example, a head known as the Lindow Woman and several limbs of other individuals. The most famous, largest, and important of these discoveries is the top half of a male body (the bottom half possibly lost when a digger cut up the bog) found in the summer of 1984 CE and called the Lindow Man. What is noticeable about this example and significant for study is that the hair, skin, and several of his integral organs were preserved. The body and surrounding section of peat were removed whole and taken away for study by a team led by British Museum scientists. Once safe in a laboratory it was the focus of analysis and has caused a great deal of excitement, producing an unprecedented investigation.

The beard, sideburns, and moustache made it instantly clear that the body was male. By calculating the length of his upper arm bone, it was estimated that he would have been between 1.68 m and 1.73 m tall. He was also well built, weighing around 64 kg. He was radiocarbon dated to between 2 BCE and 119 CE and was about 25 years old at the time of death. He was unclothed, apart from a fox fur armband. Using scanning electron microscopy researchers found that his hair and beard had been trimmed with a pair of scissors or shears. It is thought that he did not do any rough work or hard labour, based on his nails which were all manicured. Although the acid in the bog had removed all of the enamel from his teeth, there were no visible cavities, and what was left looked normal. Overall he appears to have been fairly healthy, but had slight osteoarthritis and an infestation of parasitic worms. It has even been possible to discover his blood group, O. Food residue discovered in his upper alimentary tract shows that his last meal was a griddle cake made from wheat and barley.

The reasons and cause of death have caused debate between scholars. There are signs of two blows to the top of the head with a heavy and bladed weapon and also a knife wound to the throat. There is also evidence for a blow to the back, by a broken rib. He had a thin cord around his neck which may have been used to strangle and break his neck, but some have argued that it was simply a necklace, because it is knotted in a decorative manner. Once dead he was placed face down in the bog. This horrific death may have been a ritual killing, a human sacrifice carried out, perhaps by the Druids. Or he could have been executed as a criminal or murdered by thieves, or if he was someone of stature, by his enemies. It is almost impossible to know for sure why he died, but the Lindow Man has provided valuable information and been subjected to more tests than any other ancient human being.

He was conserved by immersing him in a mixture of polyethylene glycol to prevent shrinking and then wrapped in cling film, frozen, and then finally freeze-dried. He is now on display in the British Museum.

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it actually blows my mind that tons of queer people seriously think that viewing women as inherently weak, scared, pathetic, incapable of holding power, and defenseless is feminist and progressive. how on god's green earth does it empower women at all to tell other women that they're just inherently weaker than men, need to be scared of men, that no matter what women can't hurt or abuse them, are always prey and never predators, have no autonomy, that women are literally incapable of holding positions of power over others, that women who abuse others are just "traumatized by patriarchy," or any of this nonsense?

this is misogyny for the sake of making men look bad. that's not empowering at all. regardless of the "men evil woman good" narrative you're trying to spin, it's still reinforcing that women are weak, pathetic, stupid, defenseless babies who can't ever do harm or protect themselves. the reason for reinforcing it does not matter: it's still misogyny. you are still acting with hatred for women. you still have patriarchal views of womanhood you need to abandon. how is telling women that they're inherently weaker than men progressive?

how is any of this feminist? this is literally just misogyny. you can't take misogyny and slap a new coat of paint on it and call it progressive. if you think this way, you have been suckered into hating women whether or not you realize it. you can't blame every shitty thing a woman does on trauma from cisheteronormative patriarchy. you're removing the autonomy from womanhood altogether. what you're saying is that women aren't responsible for their actions because they're too scared and and can't think critically because of how "scared" they are. what, you think women just can't take accountability because we're too dumb and pathetic and useless...? because that's what it sounds like.

you're telling women we're brainless and shouldn't think for themselves. stop calling yourself progressive if you promote the idea that women shouldn't think for themselves, but rather listen to you, instead, to make their decisions for them. stop proudly being a misogynist for the sake of trying to make men look bad. telling women that they're too stupid to be able to tell a genuine threat from a guy just standing there is misogynistic as fuck. this isn't liberating women. it's not liberating ANYONE