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Saxon a spectrum

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IcakethereforeIam · 04/02/2024 11:12

More batshittery in academia

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/03/anglo-saxon-warriors-transgender-liverpool-university/

https://archive.ph/zoRIx

Tooth decay is female coded, who knew? While the rough tough girls transmen were out (and proud) fighting for Odin, the lads transwomen were plaiting their/them hair and eating sweeties 🙄

Some Anglo-Saxon warriors may have been transgender, says academic

Modern gender norms may not have applied in the Dark Ages, a study of seventh-century burials in Kent suggests

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/03/anglo-saxon-warriors-transgender-liverpool-university

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GrumpyPanda · 04/02/2024 12:42

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2024 12:00

That writer is a tutor! God help the students!

Even worse, the WI has invited them as a speaker.

MarieDeGournay · 04/02/2024 12:20

What a daft article! Sets itself up to be taken down with the greatest of ease e.g. hold the front page: women warriors existed. Duh.
A barn door to the banjo of common sense.
The comments are unsparing☺

duc748 · 04/02/2024 12:19

We've all seen Vikings; who can forget shield-maiden Lagertha? 😀 I'm sure there's been female warriors in cultures world-wide. Are these loons just doing it for the headlines?

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2024 12:10

Id guess in battle as well they weren't taking the time to go oh hang on Stephan had Marions sword on him when he died. God knows where his is But we buried her on Wednesday. Shall we dig her up and see if she's got buried with his swords by accident?

dapsnotplimsolls · 04/02/2024 12:06

I wonder what his PHD title could possibly be ...

HagoftheNorth · 04/02/2024 12:01

FFS, there are plentiful examples of women hunters, warriors and chiefs from prehistoric sites. Just use the definition of woman = adult human female instead of trying to ascribe some restrictive gendered stereotypes

Academics, please recognise and challenge your underlying assumptions - shouldn't that be the least we can expect?!

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2024 12:00

That writer is a tutor! God help the students!

dapsnotplimsolls · 04/02/2024 11:46

So, a whole theory based on 2 burials, one of which was 'possibly female'? Ok then.

fedupandstuck · 04/02/2024 11:36

What a bizarre way to consider women and men who didn't conform to our modern ideas of what women and men did in ancient civilisations.

I was under the impression that applying modern interpretations onto historical settings was not the done thing by historians?

It is also really irritating that sex based stereotypes are being enforced here, under the idiotic guise that this historian is somehow being progressive.

AlisonDonut · 04/02/2024 11:28

Again, we've always been gender non conforming, as humans. We need to look at where the concept of 'conformity' came from in the first place.

EBearhug · 04/02/2024 11:18

Why must the conclusion be, they were trans rather than, our modern gender stereotypes are clearly bollocks, and women have always been more capable than we gave them credit for?