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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 🙄

I found Eowyn annoying, in the film more than the book, but at least Tolkien wrote her as a woman who knew she was a woman. I assume he must have had a textual inkling that a woman could wield weapons, Like Brunnhilde and her sisters.
Odin and Loki were gender fluid, Loki in fact changed sex and bore offspring as a horse, but they remained themselves in essence. Can't imagine either of them being hurt by misgendering. There obviously was an idea of freedom to shift your nature, if you were a god, with a tendency to the dark arts. So perhaps drawn from life.

Well, colour me surprised that there might be an agenda at play.

I think that they were simply confused by their own language. Early English had three genders and the word for woman, wifman, was masculine with he/him pronouns. They probably just mixed up over the sex of the person they were burying and chucked in a sword and a shield.

Only slightly tongue in cheek.

@JanesLittleGirl faintly reminiscent of all the modern-day U18 AFAB NB Germans 😉

(For anyone wondering what I’m blithering on about, the German for girl is “das Mädchen”; a counterintuitively neuter word.)

Is there a mechanism to complain your tutor is a moron and get another one?

ApocalipstickNow · Today 13:42

I am most disappointed this is not about the Heavy Metal band from Barnsley.

Def Leppard?

From the conference
’Onni Gust, Thinking with Merfolk: Writing Transgender History in the Context of Global Climate Catastrophe ‘

I feel Gust will go far.

That is Sheffield!

honestly. 🙄 you’re from the South aren’t you?

😂

ApocalipstickNow · Today 17:06

That is Sheffield! honestly. 🙄 you’re from the South aren’t you?

Newcastle. And anyway, how do you know that Barnsley doesn't identify as Sheffield? Eh eh?

Massive bigotry showing there!

😃

I was intrigued by the Eurovision one.

I’m sorry I slurred you as a shandy drinker 😉

Thanks for the link, really enjoyable 🤣🤣

ApocalipstickNow · Today 17:11

I’m sorry I slurred you as a shandy drinker

I am weeping into my pint of Tyne Bank.

Don’t know where to begin with “Gendering Victorian Mermaids” or “Queer Indigenous Archaeology”.

“The theory has been put forward by James Davison, a PhD candidate and tutor of medieval history at the University of Liverpool, who also convenes the Trans*Historical Conference.”

I wonder what would happen at this person’s PhD viva if one of his examiners suggested that, rather than “modern gender norms may not have applied” but actually modern sex-based norms may not have applied, ie women could be warriors and high status, and the whole premise of the thesis was wrong.
You have wasted the last 3+ years, go back and start again.

It's counterintuitive in some ways, but all -chen words are neuter, so it's very intuitive in that way.

Loki in fact changed sex and bore offspring as a horse

This is going to be one of those threads where it goes off on many different (but still fucking weird) paths isn't it...

I've had another little poke around 8th Century Saxon culture and, while it was generally fairly sexist, widows inherited their husbands' social status and property. When she died, the widow of a high-status warrior would have been buried as a high-status woman and with her husband's weapons.

Hedgehog masturbation ...

I’m glad you said that - I was sure that was the reason but as my last German lesson was in the mid 80s, I didn’t feel confident saying so.

Frau Hausman would be very proud 😂

Baby is also "das" and Kind is also "das" in German.

to be fair to German everything ending in the -chen used as a diminutive of something (like Brötchen) take the neutral article.

sorry, didn't see that @EBearhug had already said that.

I feel this is Angle phobic. And what about the Jutes? Does nobody care about them? They settled in the Isle of Wight . Someone had to go there.

I went yo the Isle of Wight once. I don't feel the need to go again, so there's no need to mention the Jutes.

Fair enough. I feel a bit Cowed.