@argonaut

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“I don’t feel like writing what I have just written, nor do I feel like erasing it.”
—Kierkegaard

“I never go as a passenger”
—Melville, “Moby-Dick”

i believe in the peoples, not the individuals.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@argonaut/116273877679033283

almost all the likes and most of the replies will usually come from people that already think alike.

it is tantalizing to think that the minds that could benefit the most from your ideas in a post/toot are the ones less inclined to react to said post/toot, because they would most probably feel confronted.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@argonaut/116273845216066148

most people want their beliefs proven, not challenged.

most people want not an answer to their question, but indeed the accepted mainstream version, and any edge cases may irritate them.

Modern, scientific man has written women out of history

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/british-museum-samurai-women-warrior-myth-b2913476.html

The Viking Woman Warrior of Birka, Sweden
https://www.history-channel.org/a-viking-mystery-the-woman-warrior-of-birka/

Early Women Were Hunters, Not Just Gatherers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-women-were-hunters-not-just-gatherers-study-suggests-180982459/

‘Woman the hunter’: Studies aim to correct history
https://news.nd.edu/news/woman-the-hunter-studies-aim-to-correct-history/

The sports where women outperform men
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men

Half of Japan’s samurais were women reveals groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum

‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class

The Independent