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Constructing narratives to ignore women

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IdealistAndProudOfIt · 06/07/2014 08:31

This is an older piece of writing but I've only just stumbled across it and wanted to share it.

aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/

It's about women being ignored generally as well as specifically fighters. Making me wish I'd gone further into history and could help to rewrite it as it was! Just off to look up the viking women fighters.

How often do we all fall into these traps every day?

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IdealistAndProudOfIt · 06/07/2014 08:54

Very true!

My dh has vociferously talked me into linking the first article which led him to the above. Our thinking being that (it's about videogames) that culture= communication = media and a surprisingly important part of that nowadays is videogames so www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-05-its-not-historically-accurate . It shows that there is an alternative viewpoint out there apart from the ##%**#%# (can't think of an appropriately bad name), not to mention commercial idiots, who made gta5.

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kickassangel · 06/07/2014 08:34

I teach The Aeneid and point out the obvious problem of the Trojans planning to start an entire new race with almost no mention of women on the ships. I know it's fictional but the Romans treated it as historical.