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alatismeni-theitsa 6 months
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"Women only started working very recently so a woman's place is the house-" shut up and feast your eyes at old photos of women from around the world doing physical labor only for them to return home and solely care for 5-10 children and the elderly parents of their husband.
Greek women represent:
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These photos show Greek women doing the type of physical labor they would perform more often than not. At the luckiest working conditions for rural women (aka most of the country) they would start working the fields as children and when they got older they would work the same fields with their own babies on their backs.
On the way home from the fields, sometimes the women would carry the wood and the mule would carry the man so he could rest.
Of course, we can talk about the manual labor that is rubbing cloth and metal for hours on end, chopping and carrying wood to light a fire for a large cauldron your size, and stirring it for hours.
But we can also talk about how it wasn't for them to break and carry rocks in baskets for the making of new roads. They would gather salt, olives, and grapes and carry them on large baskets filled to the brim. For salt they carried thirty kilos each trip, doing fifty trips each, stepping shoeless on the grains of salt.
Carrying water was also their job, often moving large barrels with all the water a house of 10 needed upon hills that horses and mules had trouble ascending.
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(more photos for salt mining and carrying here)
It's no hyperbole to say these women carried their incomes and households on their backs. "The good she-housekeeper is a slave and a lady" the old Greek saying goes. A "good woman" was a woman who could be strong and work at home and in the field, often described with the qualities of a mule. Men took their wives out in the fields so much that some who were a bit more educated had to make their husbands sign that they wouldn't ask them to work alongside them in the fields! (source in Greek)
Some of these photos are also from 1970. I'm missing a photo from Leukada showing women carrying baskets of the stones they broke, and I'll add it here when I find it.
Basically, women were out of the house forever. A woman who got to stay home and never perform any labor had some type of privilege (wealth, status etc). Same as the many privileged men around the world who didn't perform any labor at all.
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gemsofgreece 2 months
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In Athens, Greece (unknown date)
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wordsmithic 9 months
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Greeks are putting out books to clean up the misinformation Westerners have spread about our myths and I LOVE it.
Ioanna puts the focus on Demeter and I am here for it! Demeter is the protagonist of this story, after all.
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In the reviews so far it looks like Ioanna depicts the Greek gods as powerful, as we truly see them in our culture. I really hope it keeps the balance, as the reviewers say.
Greek author, Greek book cover illustrator (Yorgos "Lanthimos" Cotronis) and we are on for a very promising work!
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greektradition 2 years
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Greek folk costumes from Macedonia 馃嚞馃嚪
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greekbeauty 2 years
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Handsome Greek male models
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ossthings 2 years
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The discourse around the existence of awful Greek mythology retellings would be simpler if people just finally acknowledged that the problem has it's roots on cultural appropriation and discrimination towards Greek people instead of constantly doing mental gymnastics to keep them out of the picture.
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pinepickled 2 years
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People act like Greece was a country that existed in a vacuum from ancient times onward. The reality is that Greece has been the subject of invasion, enslavement, genocide, and more. Don't put your head in the sand just because you want to fuck up Greek culture without guilt
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liquidstar 6 months
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If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)
At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.
Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.
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whompthatsucker1981 7 months
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i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain
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alatismeni-theitsa 20 days
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Young Greeks sing outside the police station where another femicide took place.
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gemsofgreece 1 month
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I said I would probably not post today however I am urgently popping up for this awesome fellow
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Happy Greek Independence Day 馃挋馃馃嚞馃嚪馃馃挋
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wordsmithic 11 months
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Greek Cypriots in the UK, in the wedding tradition of "(ta) Rialia" (source)
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that-cunning-witch 11 months
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"Aphrodite loves terfs" do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?
she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods
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greekbeauty 2 years
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Beautiful Greek girls
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gorgynei 7 months
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位蠀魏维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 / 螠喂谓蠋蟿伪蠀蟻慰蟼
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withlovefromolympus 1 year
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fuck your zodiac sign, is there a squishmallow with your name? Reblog with answers I wanna see <3
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