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If more people valued home above gold… this world would be a merrier place…
for @transfrerin
[my contribution for the @tolkien-secretsanta 2016 thing ]
we opened at 11 this morning. i watched an old man literally pry the fucking sliding doors open at 10:43 and stand there just staring into the empty store and my coworker & i were like sir. for the love of fuck
I worked in a restaurant for while and a woman climbed past an A board sign, ignored the sign on a the door saying the opening times and trotted on in. When told we were not open she asked why the door was unlocked. My manager explained that it has to be unlocked when people are in the building to comply with fire regulations. Which lead to my favourite exchange with a customer: Woman: But there are no people in here. Manager: Madam. The staff count as people. Woman: That’s ridiculous. *Storms out*
I wanna be a villain so I can just saunter everywhere. the heroes are always sprinting, always running. you ever seen darth vader run? hell no. and I ain’t about to either.
I think there’s a general misunderstanding among our parents’ generation of what growing up in this rapid boom of computer technology really means.
All the time, I hear people my age (22) referred to as “the cellphone children” and jokes that we came out of the womb sending texts.
This always strikes me as odd and a little funny, because it’s just….so not the case?
When I was a young child, if you had a computer, they usually lived in a designated “computer room.” My family was very financially privileged, and we only had one in our house.
Only a few of my friends were lucky enough to have a computer at all in our younger years, and I was one of the only kids in my class who could use the phone AND the internet at the same time.
I remember my parents buying 8-packs of D batteries to load into a CD player for long trips in a van that didn’t take CDs yet.
I owned cassette tapes. I remember roller-blading around bumps on the street, trying (and failing) to keep my portable CD player from skipping.
“Born with cell phones in their hands.” I remember clunky car-only phones for emergencies that pretty much never worked. I couldn’t believe it when camera-phones started emerging in the hands of older teenagers. We had only just transitioned from cameras that used film-only to digital. Things like video-cals on Skype were still largely accepted as science fiction, because it wasn’t accessible.
When my family got a DVD player, it was a huge deal. No one else I knew had one yet.
Brie found a journal from Girl Scouts or something she wrote when she was a kid in which she said she dreamed of having small computer-watches we could wear on our wrists.
Which, y’know, exists, and children have them now.
Most of my friends didn’t have their own cellphones until we were on the cusp of adulthood. My brother and I shared a cell phone as younger teenagers in case of emergencies. Can you imagine a brother and sister sharing a cellphone now? It’s less practical.
Sure, all of these things were invented and available a few years before these times in my childhood, but it took time for them to become even somewhat accessible to the “middle class,” and the people in my generation were growing up while that happened.
I’m not saying all of these things to establish myself as one of the “real” adults who remembers some bygone days.
I’m just……marveling at how quickly technology has advanced. It’s gone so fast that the lines have blurred to older people. They remember us all having these things. I talk to older friends who would swear people my age all had their own laptops and smart phones when we were little kids. It happened so fast, that people think it’s just always been.
And now the question is how this generation and the ones after us who are being handed smart-phones and tablets at age-two are going to adapt. Will we eventually be out-paced and as confused by new technology as our parents usually are?
Or is it now so engrained in our every-day lives that we’ll move with it and die as elderly people who know how to…idk, download cooking instructions into AI units for our family dinners?
It’s wild.
we probably lost a lot of medical knowledge during the witch hunts because of how many mid wives were persecuted, and how men took over the field of medicine. I bet a few hundred years ago a mid wife might actually have some kind of knowledge about conditions that affect women exclusively which we still haven’t bothered to research in our modern society.
ok now I’m fucking mad
how many got killed cuz of witch hunts seems like youd have to kill a lot
“It is estimated that at least 1, 000 were executed in England, and the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish were even fiercer in their purges. It is hard to arrive at a figure for the whole of the Continent and the British Isles, but the most responsible estimate would seem to be 9 million. It may well, some authorities contend, have been more. Nine million seems almost moderate when one realizes that The Blessed Reichhelm of Schongan at the end of the 13th century computed the number of the Devil-driven to be 1,758,064,176. A conservative, Jean Weir, physician to the Duke of Cleves, estimated the number to be only 7,409,127. The ratio of women to men executed has been variously estimated at 20 to 1 and 100 to 1. Witchcraft was a woman’s crime.
Men were, not surprisingly, most often the bewitched. Subject to women’s evil designs, they were terrified victims. Those men who were convicted of witchcraft were often family of convicted women witches, or were in positions of civil power, or had political ambitions which conflicted with those of the Church, a monarch, or a local dignitary. Men were protected from becoming witches not only by virtue of superior intellect and faith, but because Jesus Christ, phallic divinity, died “to preserve the male sex from so great a crime: since He was willing to be born and to die for us, therefore He has granted to men this privilege. ” Christ died literally for men and left women to fend with the Devil themselves.” (pg 129-130) Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin
“The witches used drugs like belladonna and aconite, organic amphetamines, and hallucinogenics. They also pioneered the development of analgesics. They performed abortions, provided all medical help for births, were consulted in cases of impotence which they treated with herbs and hypnotism, and were the first practitioners of euthanasia. Since the Church enforced the curse of Eve by refusing to permit any alleviation of the pain of childbirth, it was left to the witches to lessen pain and mortality as best they could. It was especially as midwives that these learned women offended the Church, for, as Sprenger and Kramer wrote, “No one does more harm to the Catholic Faith than mid wives. ” The Catholic objection to abortion centered specifically on the biblical curse which made childbearing a painful punishment —it did not have to do with the “right to life” of the unborn fetus. It was also said that midwives were able to remove labor pains from the woman and transfer those pains to her husband—clearly in violation of divine injunction and intention both.” (pg 139-140) Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin
“The magic of the witches was an imposing catalogue of medical skills concerning reproductive and psychological processes, a sophisticated knowledge of telepathy, auto- and hetero-suggestion, hypnotism, and mood-controlling drugs. Women knew the medicinal nature of herbs and developed formulae for using them. The women who were faithful to the pagan cults developed the science of organic medicine, using vegetation, before there was any notion of the profession of medicine. Paracelsus, the most famous physician of the Middle Ages, claimed that everything he knew he had learned from “the good women.” (pg 140) Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin
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Bolded sections are by me. Honestly I don’t think I need to explain much. We lost some of the most important women in the world, who were the pioneers of medicine for a “curse of eve”. Basically saying if you relieve another woman’s pain we’re going to call you a witch and kill you “in the name of god” because having a child is punishment upon women and relieving their pain is illegal because this book written by men told me so.
Also check out the part where men can’t be witches because jesus and his “phallic divinity” “preserve the male sex”.
Ever heard of the Voynich manuscript? Big, huge, herbal / medical / astronomical lexicon from the 1400s, depicting lots of naked women clearly performing rituals that serve medical functions, lots of them pretty clearly related to childbirth.
You know, this book that is written in a language that nobody has been able to read for 600 years, but nobody, and I mean NO MAN has ever even thought about the simple reality of WOMEN having written it.
I found one blog post by a woman about how this text is very clearly written by women, and the knowledge within it has been completely annihilated or co-opted by men who now don’t even consider the possibility that a woman, or multiple women, could have written something like this.
Seriously, look it up. Naked women. Fat, short, in baths, all of it. And the entire academic world is absolutely convinced this must have been written by a man. In the wikipedia article, only male linguists and historians are mentioned, because only they matter. And every single one of their theories is laughingly phallocentric and simply wrong.
They go so far as say that aliens wrote it before they consider that women actually had herbal and medicinal knowledge and passed that knowledge on, in secret, written in languages only they knew, so that no priest or holy man or inquisitor could read it and kill them.
Open your eyes. This has been going on for hundreds of years. Women had to hide in the shadows, had to invent languages, just to avoid being killed by men for trying to help themselves and other women. This is reality.
It wouldn’t be the first time women have had to invent their own language because of the rights men withheld from us.
If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think
My love for this post is unbelievable.
women grow hair on their boobs and their butts and their legs and their arms and their stomachs and their face and really anywhere their genetics decides to have hair and it is perfectly normal what isnt normal is men who have never touched a razor trying to shame women for not looking like a hairless baby
He has just as much reason to go to war as you do. Why can he not fight for those he loves?
The real question about Civil War is did Stan Lee read Tony’s name wrong or did Steve actually write Tony Stank because I wouldn’t put it past him tbh