feminismandhappiness:princesswhatevr:beautiful-tragicinthefalloutboy:“Previously, researchers had mi
feminismandhappiness:princesswhatevr:beautiful-tragicinthefalloutboy:“Previously, researchers had misidentified skeletons as male simply because they were buried with their swords and shields. By studying osteological signs of gender within the bones themselves, researchers discovered that approximately half of the remains were actually female warriors, given a proper burial with their weapons.”how many other ‘discoveries’ were prevented from happening because men applied current ‘gender norms’ to past cultures?!remember this when somebody tries to convince you that gender roles are natural, that we ‘evolved’ this way, that men and women are made for different functions, that males were hunters, female were gatherers and child rearers and so on, remember that speculations about the distant past people’s behaviours and culture more often than not follows cultural biases and even agendas… -- source link