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Women that you don't want to fuck are still pretty based, right? We're all in agreement that women we don't wanna fuck are cool as fuck? I LOVE YOU, WOMEN THAT I DON'T WANNA FUCK!

akashicrecord

the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice

ivy-connivy

insane like/reblog parity on this post btw

baskinginthenoondaysun

“Whenever this appears on your dash, we at Aperture request that you like AND reblog to preserve the insane like/reblog parity. For science.”

insomniac-arrest

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

insomniac-arrest

Our age of plastics is collapsing

insomniac-arrest

Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.

we-are-knight

You know, I don't think I'll ever get over how that one post I made about women as knights in history, made it all the way to Reddit only for a bunch of redditors to argue that women couldn't actually be knights because:

- "the term is gendered" (it's not, and feminine equivalents were sometimes created specifically for the purpose)

- "they didn't actually do things as knights" (who didn't? The Hatchet women fought the Moors. A few other Orders had women as masters of arms. Both martial and formal examples)

...and a few other reasons that come down to "I don't like imagining my manly men in steel had women in their ranks, girls have cooties".

And the reason I say this is because recently, Wikipedia updated their page on "Knight", specifically adding a section about women with the title of knighthood, and what function they performed. And I know: "Wikipedia is not an academic source"--but every academic institution will accept the sources and articles used to back up wikipages, which confirm what has been said.

Knights were sometimes women. 🤷

we-are-knight

I saw this and needed to answer.

The gendered versions of 'knight' come from Romance languages, and literally just change the word to fit the gender of the subject (within a binary). So it isn't like English, where a female knight has always been a 'Dame', but, using Spain as an example, the word for Knight in Spanish is 'Cabellero'. This is the default masculine.

The feminine word for Knight? 'Cabellera'.

Similarly in French: "Chevalier" becomes "Chevaliére".

In Italian, "Cavaliere" becomes "Cavaliera".

Outside of Romance languages, "knight" is just a title for a social rank, so even the English Dame is by default a knight by rank, but may not have the title (although not impossible).

So it's not a silly infantilisation, than using a word for the knightly class and gendering it in a binary, which means we can actually tell that, yes, women as knights existed, enough that the feminine form of the word pops up now and then, so we know it existed.

ooh, where one could read that original post??

Just a note about translations and ... well, patriarchal bullshit.

When you say "Hatchet women fought the Moors" I was like "hey, that seems to be part of my local history, how have I never heard about it?", and when I googled it ... I actually have heard about it, it's the Orden del Hacha from Catalonia (Orde de l'Atxa in the original Catalan). But ... there's something odd going on. Why the fuck in English they have translated like "Order or the hatchet"? You know, in Spanish and Catalan there's no really a difference between "Axe" and "Hatchet": There's a single word for them, "Hacha/Atxa". But in English, there's a difference. A Hatchet is a hand axe, pretty much the smallest one you can think of:

So It's pretty remarkable that whoever translated the name of the order to english first decided to use "Hatchet" and not "Axe". I'm pretty sure if this was a order of men warriors the name would have been pretty different. Specially when THIS was their coat of arms:

So dear academic-who-translated-this-first: Does that look like a hatchet to you, motherfucker?!?!?

we-are-knight

Important inclusion I was not aware of, thank you very much friend. :)

heroineimages

I’m going to be chuckling over ‘Does this look like a hatchet to you, motherfucker?!?!?” for the rest of the day.

we-are-knight

Yes and no.

Germany is a region where I cannot find any mentions of women being granted knighthood as a status, this must be said.

It must also be said that German literature talks about women of knightly breeding or blood, and this being a stated factor of their value as potential wives to members of the upper class. Primarily, within German culture, it was more desirable for women to be courtly than to be knightly (knighthood within German culture seems to be tied to material culture as much as status), thus knightly family is more of a desirable quality for a woman as the lower edge of nobility merging with the old baronial nobility (to paraphrase Joachim Bumke).

It is thus true that not all regions of Europe acknowledged women as knights, even in the rare regions where women could be deemed of knightly class. Partly, this also is because there was no concrete universal meaning of 'knight', and the more we attempt to nail down what a knight was across the centuries, the more it changes based on time and region.

References:

- Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, 'The Formation of the Knightly Class', Pg.51 (Joachim Bumke, 1986)

- Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, 'The Word Höfisch (Courtly)', Pg.57 (Joachim Bumke, 1986)

ravioliet

they should invent a disproportionate emotional response that goes away when you understand it's disproportionate. they should invent a way to logic yourself out of emotions

hiveswap

[Doesnt do it] [gets stressed] [gets scared thinking about doing it] [doesnt do it because it's scary] [keeps not doing it]

do-not-u-dare

Im always scared to call someone my friend because what if they dont consider me a friend and hate me because of that

flanbolt

recklessmoss

say what u want about the manscaped ads I know they are shit, all of them but the “evil, sinister, malcontent, balls” one puts me into fucking hysterics actually

recklessmoss

please this is SO funny

recklessmoss

HUH?!

bigbadbutch

greenlabcoat

when you have a hammer everything looks like a guy you could kill with a hammer

rowan-e-ravenwood

new top contender

sweatermuppet

real question i just had to answer for my top surgery screening

#no

i-suggest-transing-your-gender

It sucks womanizer is a term for a guy who takes advantage of men and not the name of a big awesome ray that instantly transitions any trans woman into how she'd like to look