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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on January 11, 2015, 11:20:11 AM
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OK, just a preface. This is from the history of Feminism forum, the sanctuary for man hating lesbians at DU. this ridiculous story is automatically taken as fact by the gals.
The red text is by me, at one time I was a history major, I cannot stand to see history rewritten or pretend things presented as fact. Couldn't help myself.
~~ Mr Mannn is off writing a book crediting Amazons with inventing the sammich.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125553768
Tuesday Afternoon (55,263 posts)
Amazon Warriors Did Indeed Fight and Die Like Men
The Amazons got a bum rap in antiquity. They wore trousers. They smoked pot (The ancient Greeks never smoked pot, still this alone is why DUmmies will believe this silly feminist fantasy), covered their skin with tattoos, rode horses, and fought as hard as the guys. Legends sprang up like weeds. They cut off their breasts to fire their bows better! They mutilated or killed their boy children! Modern (mostly male) scholars continued the confabulations. The Amazons were hard-core feminists. Man haters. Delinquent mothers. Lesbians.
Drawing on a wealth of textual, artistic, and archaeological evidence, Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons, dispels these myths and takes us inside the truly wild and wonderful world of these ancient warrior women.
Talking from her home in Palo Alto, California, she explains what Johnny Depp has in common with Amazons, why the Amazon spirit is breaking out all over pop culture, and who invented trousers (In the thousands of years of human history before the Greeks..No one invented trousers before the Amazons? Really?).
We associate the word Amazon with digital book sales these days. Tell us about the real Amazons.
The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary (Gasp! Could you be referring to the utter lack of...dare I say it...EVIDENCE?. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141029-amazons-scythians-hunger-games-herodotus-ice-princess-tattoo-cannabis/
Notice the last word inthis link: Cannabis. Now we know where the research came from.
xposted = http://www.democraticunderground.com/12191592 thank you, icymist
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What a trouser-load.
BTW, didn't the Assassins get their name from using hashish? Not so sure you're right on that one, though one of the enduring biological mysteries is related - the question of how cocaine metabolites could have been found in Egyptian mummies when the coca plant existed solely in the New World.
On the trouser question, apparently there was very recently a discovery of a burial in territory that is now China, of two men, wherein trousers were found...supposedly the oldest documentable use of trousers discovered so far.
It's pretty well established that most of the Amazon tales are balderdash concocted by the Romans and Greeks/Hellenics as a bugaboo scary story, on a par with the cyclops, centaurs, sea serpents, dragons, and such. Any statues that survive are the Greek and Roman embodiments of that myth, like trying to reconstruct what our society was like from Bruce Willis movies 2500 years from now. All the real evidence is that there may well have been an actual people who gave rise to the myth, mostly likely somewhere toward the eastern end of the Black Sea, and there is a tiny element of truth in the Classical legends, but something on the close order of about 1% truth and 99% total bullshit.
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On the trouser question, apparently there was very recently a discovery of a burial in territory that is now China, of two men, wherein trousers were found
(http://www.awmok.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/4138749268_7f018a663c_o.jpg)
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Sounds like "history" Eric Von Daniken style.
IIRC, hemp was used in Asia for millennia for its fibers (rope, etc.), but not the (highly) intoxicating variety. The Greeks' (and other Med cultures') intoxicants of choice were wine and beer. But why let facts compromise the truthy-ness of a feminist myth/narrative?
Legends sprang up like weeds. They cut off their breasts to fire their bows better! They mutilated or killed their boy children! Modern (mostly male) scholars continued the confabulations. The Amazons were hard-core feminists. Man haters. Delinquent mothers. Lesbians.
There's certainly a lot for modern feminists to love about the mythical Amazons! And to fantasize about.
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Sounds like "history" Eric Von Daniken style.
I had to laugh at that,there was/is one of the biggest lunatics to ever put word to paper.
Hard to believe how many bought into his idiocy back in the 70s.
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OK, I concede, But Hashish was exclusively and arab thing.
I will correct my OP.
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A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about school books that were being used to teach black kids that the ancient Greeks stole their civilization from Africans. It was all a bunch of BS designed to give poor black kids a sense of self worth. Now it looks like the feminists are trying to pull pretty much the same crap.
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Weren't the Amazons from around the Black Sea area?
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Somebody didn't read the whole thread before posting...
(A sin I frequently commit myself)
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I'm a huge fan of the Amazons.
You can find anything under the sun in seconds, and buy it with one click.
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OK, I concede, But Hashish was exclusively and arab thing.
I will correct my OP.
You must have edited the passage in question before I got a chance to see it.
The Amazons are alive and well and living in Atlantis.
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No, Amazon women did not die as warriors and smoke pot. Under the direction of the Femputer, they developed women's basketball and captured men for the ritual of DEATH BY SNOO SNOO. :-)
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So, they were buried with bows, knives and such but no dildos or vibrators, huh.....piss poor lesbians if you ask me.
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You must have edited the passage in question before I got a chance to see it.
The Amazons are alive and well and living in Atlantis.
I have it on the best authority they live on Venus:
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32544/32544-h/images/cover.jpg)
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I have it on the best authority they live on Venus:
(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32544/32544-h/images/cover.jpg)
I thought they were on the Moon?
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I thought they were on the Moon?
"To the moon, Alice, to the moon", Ralph Cramdon.
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I thought they were on the Moon?
Usually, women like to hang out in Venus. But some like mars:
(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af235/nohocommunicationsgroup/WomenFromMars.jpg)
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So, Amazon Women on the Moon was a documentary?
(http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/319390/319390_full.jpg)
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What a trouser-load.
:rotf: bah-dum-dum.
Any statues that survive are the Greek and Roman embodiments of that myth, like trying to reconstruct what our society was like from Bruce Willis movies 2500 years from now.
Exactly. :hi5:
and there is a tiny element of truth in the Classical legends, but something on the close order of about 1% truth and 99% total bullshit.
Never mattered to (D)Ummies.
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A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about school books that were being used to teach black kids that the ancient Greeks stole their civilization from Africans. It was all a bunch of BS designed to give poor black kids a sense of self worth. Now it looks like the feminists are trying to pull pretty much the same crap.
There's a website, by some purported Professor, that is doing that with, basically, everything. I forgot where I found it. Essentially, yes, black africans had flying cars and stealth fighters, before the white man took them all away in chains.
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"To the moon, Alice, to the moon", Ralph Cramdon.
(http://www.patricksofpratt.com/Alice.jpg)
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So, Amazon Women on the Moon was a documentary?
(http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/319390/319390_full.jpg)
Yes!
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There's a website, by some purported Professor, that is doing that with, basically, everything. I forgot where I found it. Essentially, yes, black africans had flying cars and stealth fighters, before the white man took them all away in chains.
You'd think that people with flying cars and stealth fighters wouldn't be put in chains.
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You'd think that people with flying cars and stealth fighters wouldn't be put in chains.
We tricked them - had a busty chick with a huge ass drive in a wagon-load of liquor, and then ran in and stole everything while they were passed out.
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We tricked them - had a busty chick with a huge ass drive in a wagon-load of liquor, and then ran in and stole everything while they were passed out.
A little of that in Ferguson, and a whole lot of trouble could have been avoided.
Those who forget the lessons of history...
High five for that, by the way.
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We tricked them - had a busty chick with a huge ass drive in a wagon-load of liquor, and then ran in and stole everything while they were passed out.
If they were a professional football team, what would their name be ?
It seems to me it might be...Redskins.
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If they were a professional football team, what would their name be ?
It seems to me it might be...Redskins.
I'm thinking more like Da Bears. Of course there aren't any of them in Africa in modern times, so they could claim we stole all the bears too.
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If they were a professional football team, what would their name be ?
It seems to me it might be...Redskins.
The Beavers.
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You'd think that people with flying cars and stealth fighters wouldn't be put in chains.
Well, this was Third World. They invented flying cars (with 20" spinners), but neglected to invent roads, oil refineries, and filling stations.
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The Beavers.
Nasty man! :asssmack: :asssmack: :asssmack: :rotf: :hi5: :cheers2: :cheersmate:
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(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/smileys/feminists_zpsa08f5963.jpg)
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^heh !