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RIP, "The Man of the Hole." We never knew your date of birth or name.
And after what we did to you, we didn't deserve to.
The last member of an uncontacted indigenous group in Brazil had lived in total isolation for decades.
The Man of the Hole was the sole survivor of an Indigenous tribe that was genocided by Brazilian settlers in the 1970s, the other survivors of his tribe were killed by illegal miners in 1996 leaving him the last of his people. From that point on he lived in complete isolation for over two decades. He survived by hunting and gathering and moving around frequently, he left a deep hole in each of his homes for unknown purposes, hence the title that was given to him. It remains completely unknown who his people were, what language they spoke or what his name was.
His story is similar to that of Ishi an Indigenous man whose people were entirely exterminated during the california genocide, he lived in isolation for decades and no one knew his real name. And with him dying so did his people.
The story of the Man of the Hole brings to the forefront the ongoing genocide of the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. And the many perils they face.
hope u realize that the sex binary is a white supremacist ideology
What’s white supremacist is implying my black ancestors didn’t know the difference between female and male before white people colonized us. We were so stupid & primitive that we needed DA WHITE MAN to teach us basic biology! 🤣
This also implies that patriarchy was created by white people & that African women weren’t oppressed by black men prior to having contact with white people.
All of these notions are FALSE and I wish white people would shut up and stop trying to co-opt African cultures to spread this regressive gender ideology.
Or to say it with bell hook's words:
Ain't I A Woman, Black Woman and Feminism by bell hooks
They’ve always oppressed us, even before the white man imposed his rule.
god those "primal" people who are like "our ancestors SLEPT ON THE GROUND and ate RAW MEAT and sometimes didnt eat for DAYS!! so thats how we should all be living its NATURAL!!" i truly am full of rage towards them.
like. first of all: being able to cook meat was Really Important for our evolution, so no dumbass, we arent "meant to eat raw meat" you fucking moron LOOK AT YOUR TEETH. WE ARE MADE TO EAT SAFELY COOKED MEAT.
second: who the fuck are these "ancestors". how far back are we going? modern humans? one of the other hominids? full monkee? you are idolizing a random point in our species' history because of whatever unscientific fantastical version of pre-modern life was. it wasnt hell on earth it wasnt paradise we were just LIVING.
third: DJFJSKBDFDSFCDHJFBS HARDER DOES NOT MEAN BETTER YOU CUNT. our ancestors lived hard lives because they HAD TO. and you know what? THEY TRIED TO MAKE IT EASIER!! do you fucking think people were laying on hard stone because of their amazing willpower? No! They were getting moss and animals pelts and shit to make it a little comfier! They were trying out spices! They were painting with their children! WE MADE CLOTHES FOR A REASON!!!
its just like. 100% based off the idea of early humans as jacked (white) cavemen who beat up dinosaurs with their hands and were constantly fighting. theres no humanity in your fantasy of early humans. our ancestors would be amazed and HAPPY with how far we've come with providing ourselves comfort and support. when someone was disabled in the past they werent (at least not always) killed or left to die. people cared for them! modern humans have a long, long history of making the best out of things and finding comfort where we can and always trying to make our lives better. eating raw liver doesnt make you better you dork
chantek the orangutan regularly requested ice cream and cheeseburgers via sign language, and happily made his own jewelry. many great apes in zoos, from chimps to gorillas, will thread beads on string and wear them. one gorilla was observed ripping a feed sack along the seams and wearing it as a little shawl when she was feeling sad. a young chimp was observed playing with a dead squirrel as she watched her mother care for her baby brother, rocking the soft little body and signing baby, baby, kiss. another chimp raised by a human demanded her caretaker check under her bed each night for black dogs and crocodiles. in college when i was taking art history we were shown a little round pebble with two dots and a crease, that looked like a face, that was found thousands of miles away from where it should have been, and it’s theorized that it must have been carried by an early hominid who saw the face, and liked it. many ancient cultures that never invented the wagon nonetheless built wheeled pull-toys for their children.
our ancestors ate delicious snacks as often as they could get them and some of the earliest tool use was drilling holes in stones to make beads and spinning fiber for string. our cousins still make nests and rain hats and hug each other when they’re sad and do tricks for peanut butter and grape juice. we have always been as soft as the world allowed.
Sorry guys I gotta give up tumblr and go squirm in the mud, it's what my ancestors did so it's the only good and natural behavior for me.
Didn't our ancestors literally domesticate crops to get the most nutritional value out of them specifically for us? Lmao you're stupid if you think our ancestors wanted to struggle 😂😭😭
I mean the TERF cult has no grounding in reality.
But I think the epitome of this is that, I lived in a country for 7 years that doesn’t conform to the gender binary. Like, this is a modern, thriving culture, driving the most progressive society and strongest economy in the region. It literally exists in 2022 and it does not ascribe to the binary.
Me: *Mentions this to the TERF who somehow got their filthy hands on one of my posts*
TERF:
op what country are you talking about?
Not today TERF
I’m not a terf, opabinia isn’t my name
They’re talking about Thailand.
Imagine thinking there’s a single country on the planet that “doesn’t conform to the gender binary.”
LMFAO Thailand? so op is just fucking lying
Oh hello.
How so?
Thai person here.
Claiming Thailand has no/does not conform to the gender binary is disingenuous, incorrect and straight up lying.
Male and female gender roles were always a part of Thailand’s history.
Society very clearly revolved around a binary, with strict and rigid sex roles.
A woman’s role was to be a submissive wife and mother (sometimes concubine and basically servant), subordinate to her husband. Women were excluded from the public or political sphere, as their only place was in the home. They are conspicuously absent from most historical records and lacked voices.
Legal recognition of male superiority/patriarchal inheritance was established during the Sukhothai period. (some interpretations of Buddhism were used to prop up that idea)
The idea that the “third gender” was a prevalent, open thing is wrong. It was a term with negative connotations, that othered homosexual people, forcing them to hide their orientation or risk ostracism and possibly punishment.
(In Buddhism, people of the “third gender” were pitied as they were disqualified from becoming monks)
The actual meaning of “เพศที่สาม” (third gender) in the Thai language is vague and nebulous. Most people think of it as referring to people of “the other gender”, which include and are limited to homosexual people.
It’s a blanket term or short descriptor for the following:
- กะเทย/ตุ๊ด (Kathoey or “ladyboy”: gay men who like crossdressing or homosexual transwomen)
- เกย์ (gay men)
- ทอม and ดี้ (analogous to butch and femme lesbians)
There are no native Thai concepts or words for genderless/nonbinary people or heterosexual transsexuals. (what words do exist are loanwords that were introduced by western ideologies)
If you ask people as to whether เกย์, ทอม and ดี้ (gay men and lesbians) are in fact men and women or a third gender, you’ll get different opinions. It’s not particularly a clear-cut definition, and the “third gender” label can sort of be called slang.
(Oh, and fun fact: nobody views kathoeys as women. We know)
TL;DR third gender = homosexuals, with a special category for kathoeys.
While Thai society is passively accepting of the LGBT community*, to call it a totally progressive and modern culture is incorrect. It’s still very much a country with traditional norms and values, especially when it comes to gender roles (as mentioned above)
*In most households being gay or a kathoey will definitely disappoint your mother and family before they eventually resign themselves to it.
Women are still raised to be more submissive and deferential, to preferably keep their virginity for their husband, and to prioritize children over their own careers.
It’s widely accepted for men to visit prostitutes, even after marriage. (Obviously it’s forbidden for women to do the same)
The tradition of having multiple wives (เมียน้อย) is still in practice today, among higher levels of Thai society. (despite it not being strictly legal)
Thai women have a different view of relationships than western women (relationships are also economic), and are less independent. Many of them become prostitutes to earn a living and try to find a long-term boyfriend or sugar daddy (A lot of western men come for the sex tourism and end up marrying prostitutes)
Abortion was illegal for the longest time until this year when they finally passed a law allowing them during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (Women had to get illegal abortions that were dangerous and could result in infertility)
Speaking in such a condescending tone and assuming you know everything about Thailand because you, as a foreigner, lived there for a few years reeks of colonialism.
Stop appropriating Thai (or really, any other) culture and attempting to redefine what it is to fit your own western ideological narrative.
- Sincerely, all of ethnic radblr.
Every time I see this post, the fact that OPs talking about Thailand always feels like a punch. Like, Thailand, which ranks 10th in the Women’s Danger Index, is supposed to be some thriving gender utopia?
From here.
And there’s also this…
I’m sure there’s no binary though, I bet it’s women attacking these women though!
is the country that doesn’t conform to the gender binary in the room with us right now?
Tumblr is fucking stupid because a lot of y’all think that white people invented sexism and taught it to men of colour. Lol right okay black and brown women have been treated like shit waaaayy before Cracker Von Patriarch III came along and handed out smallpox and Bibles
Bruh the Incas literally sacrifice female virgins to the suns. I hate you wokies so bad
bruh rape cases had a 27% rise in japan and FGM (which has affected more than 200 million girls, and 3 million more over year) is practiced mainly in africa and asia, but sure, white men are the only misogynists. misogyny is worldwide, fucking pigs.
Also, according to some sources, female genital mutilation in Africa goes back to ancient goddamn Egypt.
The white man did not fucking invent misogyny. Men’s hatred of women precedes Colonial Europe by thousands of years.
When White Europeans were still warring with other tribes and Vikings were raiding coastal cities, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India, with their advanced writing systems, technology, and sophisticated laws, governments, and ways of living, were abusing women and treating them as inferior, and had been since the dawn of their civilizations.
Unless Cracker Von Patriarch somehow time traveled to the beginning of time and influenced these African and Asian civilizations, shut the fuck up.
Misogyny is a male invention. Not a white one. And it is, arguably, the oldest form of systemic oppression.
@nagatouzu there is no human society on earth that has ever worshipped and respected women.
STOP LYING.
The one thing the white man did that was “revolutionary” in his misogyny is commercialize it, turn it commonplace, make it wanted, hip, popular through capitalism. Even women purchase misogyny through self oppressing products, and it is considered uncool to not do so.
But misogyny has been around for a really really long time, because man’s envy has been around for a really really long time. For as long as a man has known women’s potential, man has been trying to break woman down, independent of culture, origin, timeframe, ethnicity.
It’s racist and misogynistic to deny the oppression women of color have faced throughout history at the hands of their own people. Colonization just added more social classes and layers to the oppression faced by women of color, as well as easy ways for misogyny to be even more insidious and damaging through capitalism.
And you can see this now in Afghanistan. You think whites taught the men there to hate women the way they do? 😐
misogyny is as old as civilization, long before colonization.
“When civilisations begin to write down their laws, this is when the patriarchy becomes enshrined. There is a phrase on the Enmetena and Urukagina cones – the earliest known law codes from circa 2400 BC – that says “If a woman speaks out of turn, then her teeth will be smashed by a brick.”
Later, the Code of Hammurabi (circa 1754 BC) of ancient Mesopotamia proved a mixed blessing for women. The laws recognised the right for women to own property, while also forbidding arbitrary ill-treatment or neglect. In widowhood, wives were allowed to use their husband’s estates for their lifetime.
However, the code was a blow to women’s sexual freedom. Husbands and fathers now owned the sexual reproduction of their wives and daughters. This meant that women could be put to death for adultery and that virginity was now a condition for marriage.”
(also let’s not forget that Mesopotamia is what we know consider to be the Middle East so yea, first known laws - against women - were not by white men LMAO)
The Code of Hammurabi also ordered women to wear a veil so as to distinguish the women owned by a father or husband who must be respected as a man’s property from the prostituted and slave women that men can abuse at will (who were forbidden to wear a veil). If a prostituted or slave woman was to wear a veil the punishment was the cutting of her ears or nose, the shaving of her hair and destruction of her clothes. And any man who was to help a woman masquerading as a protected veil wearer was punished as well. This way of thinking still exists especially in Islam. All this talk of “modesty” implies that the women not wearing a veil are immodest sluts deserving of abuse.
literally every time i see some ~woke~ leftist pushing this lie that white men invented misogyny and bringing up mythical civilizations that ‘worshipped’ women, i have to roll my eyes. like read a fucking book for once in your life, please. exit the fanfiction sites and step away from your porn stash for five fucking seconds and come back to the real world and look at some real history.
Indigenous person here!
Some inuit tribes practiced female infanticide. I’d they didn’t have enough food for the tribe they would put baby girls out in the snow to die. If this led to a shortage of women for the tribe then women would have several husbands. Some people see the marriages with one wife and several husbands and think it’s progressive, but no. It’s because they killed the baby girls.
Other tribes in the west would go to war with each other and kidnap the girls and women from the tribes they fought to keep as their wives.
I obviously can’t speak for all tribes because they are all different, but these are just some examples of misogyny in Native American culture.
Basically: men the world over will go to war over a line drawn in a literal patch of dirt.
The one fucking thing they can agree on, throughout history and in all places?
“Oppress women.”
Honestly y'all saying men who aren’t white are actually not sexist is GIVING RACISM.
POC men aren’t some soft hearted enlightened gentlemen lmaooo, they have been oppressing women since the dawn of time.
My favourite example of the domino effect
Allow me to explain:
Gerard Way witnesses 9/11 and as a consequence, starts My Chemical Romance
Stephanie Meyer sees My Chemical Romance and becomes inspired to write Twilight
Somewhere in Rio de Janeiro, a man by the name of Felipe Neto is so outraged by the Twilight movies that he makes a hate video about them that goes so viral he becomes one of Brazil's biggest YouTubers
His brother Luccas Neto rides off his fame and becomes a children's YouTuber
Across the Atlantic, Portuguese children become obsessed with his videos. Like the lusophone Jake Paul
Portuguese children watch his videos so fucking much that they begin talking like they're from Rio
Portuguese parents are horrified by the Brazilian Portuguese but can't make it stop
Brazilian Portuguese slowly eats alive the European Portuguese dialect
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I see the original post going around every so often and it saddens me a little that it's never accompanied by this thread explaining why it's completely understandable how a child would arrive at these spellings in accordance with english phonetics
If you read the words aloud it just sounds like how a little child speaks. This literally makes ALL the sense. This kid was doing great.
Really love the alternate "triangle".
"Chriego."
Beautiful.
Men are literally never asked to be inclusive when talking about themselves. When was the last time you saw someone say mxn or men* to make sure everyone felt included in that term… Never
And I’ve NEVER seen men or health care workers specializing in male issues (like testicular/prostate cancer, sperm donation, etc) be forced to use silly, degrading, unscientific language to describe male bodies. You will never see a medical conference force doctors to, say, call penises “front sticks” or sperm “baby juice” (and threaten to expel them if refuse to use such childish, unscientific terms).
Meanwhile, multiple hospitals and midwife/doula training programs are kicking people out if they refuse to change their language to call vaginas “front holes” or say breast feeding is “chest feeding”. And they’re doing this despite the fact that using silly kindergarten euphemisms only makes it harder for the patient and nurse/doctor to communicate (which is a problem if complications occur).
I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.
Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.
Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.
Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.
So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.
They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.
Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.
However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.
So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.
It gets better.
Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.
Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.
And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.
Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.
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Fascinating. I shouldn't be surprised we didn't already acknowledge this.
I think I've seen somewhere there might be indications this is also true wrt to birth and labor, but I wouldn't know where to find that information. I doubt there's much research.
The word “monster” originally meant “deformed”. A monster could be a two headed calf, conjoined twins or a hideously deformed human infant. It was only in the 20th century that monster came to mean any cruel or alien creature.
I think you will find it was the 19th century and was populised due to Mary Shelly ‘Frankenstein".
BOOM and another first for the women.
Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?
Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.
After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).
In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.
The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.
This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.
Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.
So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html
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