Constructing narratives to ignore women

[IdealistAndProudOfIt]

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?

DD1 was nearly named after Ada Lovelace (and DD2 would have been, but we'd used it as DD1's middle name in case we never had a DD2).

Fascinating thread. Nothing to add except that I am a little overcome to discover that LRD is Jeanne de Montbaston.