I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist
Wasn't there a queen who revolutionized her ability to make treaties because she was god smackingly good at making lace, and she would offer these beautifully intricate sleeves as gifts to adversaries as like friendship tokens and incitements towards benefitial treaties? I feel like I read somewhere mentioning that on this hellsite.
Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.
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