Want to know how much white, male supremacy is embedded in our culture?
It’s right in the rules of how we talk about things:
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Ah yes, more projection upon The Other.
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This became a big issue in my marriage. I very much have this style of conversation - interrupting, finishing the other person’s point - and to my ex husband he perceived it as rude and disrespectful. It really got to be hard to have any conversation.
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The problem of leaving women out of history, both as a profession and subject:
Especially hilarious are the people assuming that textile crafts have a single-point of origin. “It can’t be knitting, because knitting was after the fall of Rome!” As though fibrecraft isn’t older than agriculture. As if ancient people weren’t clever enough to figure it out.
Since we never considered the deeds of women worth studying, we really don’t know how dar back some of their tools and techniques go. The YouTube grannies may be wrong, but it’s certainly a better guess than “we don’t know how a hunter or warrior would use this, LOL, must be religious.”
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BEGIN SARCASM:
No, none of the garments that the ancients wore were manufactured at home by women using machines. It was all fur and hides.
The women started with Colonial US homespun during the boycott of British goods prior to the American Revolution, donchaknow?
END SARCASM.
It’s all in whoever writes the history, idn’t it?
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I once corrected a display at the Oriental Museum in Chicago, because they thought there was a ‘tear’ in a child’s tunic: I pointed out that it was a clean cut, at exactly the middle of the throat, and judging from the size of the tunic, it was made without consideration of the much larger head-to-body ratio of a toddler, so someone cut it to make it possible to put on. A gift from an in-law? A first attempt by a new mom? Who knows, but it was clearly not a haphazard tear, and anyone who has had to deal with how quickly little ones grow out of their clothing would recognize the ‘hack’.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if fibercraft was simultaneously developing along with things like flaking and watercraft. So possibly as old a quarter million years.
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Possibly a hand-me down being retrofitted for its new owner.
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That’s an excellent point! My second kid had a much larger head than the first.
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Putting this here, because we all know who was expected to do that unpaid labour and who still generally gets stuck with it while working 40+ hour weeks.
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Maybe they know how angry women are…?
In the actual X-Men comic book, the whole Phoenix/Dark Phoenix thing became utterly stupid. I remember reading them and I was like “What’s this ‘Anodyne’ shit?”
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Yeah, because men who obtain too much power are never an existential threat to everyone else…
That aspect of Wandavision falling back onto an old, insulting trope did piss me off…
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Don’t ever let them tell you they’re “pro-life”.
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I swear, Texas is reaping what the US sowed when they stole it from Mexico.
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