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not accurate. MI6, acting in british/bp interest, CAN’T hire CIA of course, they needed to convince eisenhower that Mosaddegh was in kahoots with communists, threatening a communist revolution. Why else would the CIA just help gb? They can’t be hired.

#the cia are idiots btw just relying on british intelligence and going with it

depsidase

funungamila

This is nonsense. Many people, many women, are happy and choose not to have children just because they do not want to for one reason or another. This idea that people (women) all want to have children is so normative and untrue. Also: what biologist said that about badly abusing mammals to the point they stop reproducing? It’s a bad comparison to humans not having children. Other mammals reproduce because they mate. They don’t use birth control. Who knows if their urge is for reproducing or mating? Probably for mating if you ask me and then the reproduction happens automatically. Humans also mate. Humans have a unique choice to reproduce or not. Birth control is so so new. Up until the 50s condoms were rare and were viewed by polite society as something dirty. The pill was invented in the 60s. Time has only shifted a couple decades. The CHOICE to become a mother or not is slowly slowly becoming more accepted. There is still some social pressure but thankfully, more women can decide for themselves. Maybe humans don’t all have an urge to reproduce. Maybe humans just have a sex drive and social conditioning and reproduction is a want for some and we are now finding out not for all.

#i don’t think everyone realises how new birth control is and what a godsend they are to women #also the cultural shift. From motherhood being near-mandatory to now finally being free to choose #some feminists argue that we don’t have an urge to reproduce but a sex drive and that we always conflated the two because culture and natur #equated the two #and those who do have an urge to reproduce? Fine. But framing the declining birth rate in western countries as a problem or an indicator of #unhappiness is so antifeminist #thank god we are more free to choose than ever #Does this person look at childless women and assume they’re unhappy? Probably not i hope but that’s how they sound #also. You know where birth rates are declining? Wealthier countries. Wealth doesnt = happiness but surely there must be some correlation #i don’t think it’s down to unhappiness. It’s down to free choice

petrarchesco

A detail from a roman mosaic (late 2nd - early 1st century BC) I saw yesterday.

theinternetarchive

embroidery sample (and details); plain weave: cotton; embroidery, reversible cross-stitch: silk; average: 81.9 x 79.4 cm; morocco c. 1800s.

smsomah

Egyptian silver fish fertility pendant, circa 1913

Coins and fish commonly represent abundance and prosperity. In Egypt's Abu el-Numrus region, fish-shaped pendants were especially popular and were likely crafted by local Egyptian Jewish jewelers.

smsomah

Kazakh; Central Asia; Uzbekistan, second half 19th century. Materials: fur; silk; cotton; leather.

This fur-trimmed doeskin coat, lined with printed cotton, was likely made by a skilled Uzbek artisan for a wealthy Kazakh man. Such finely embroidered garments, worn on special occasions, could be worth as much as a good horse.

harminuya

Armenian beaded bottle/flask covers/sleeves. Early 20th C. Western Armenia.

Private collection. Originally posted by Hilmia Hilmi.

thekimonogallery

Kimono created by Japanese artist Itchiku Kubota

mozertone

Owl-shaman, by Inuit artist Manasie Akpaliapik. 1999

bone, antler, sinew, and baleen (whale bone)

nobrashfestivity

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1912

memories-of-ancients

Gold brooch with rubies and sapphires, inscribed "IO SUI ICI EN LIU DAMI: AMO (I am here in the place of the friend I love). England or France, 12th century

from The British Museum

#what kind of language is this #it reads between french and latin #medieval french?