linkding

Shield Maidens, Bell Curves and Strong Women - R. J. Eliason

#gender #history | History buffs will know this already, but in ancient times it was not uncommon for armies to lose more men from starvation and disease on the way to the war then in battle. Life was difficult in the best of times. For soldiers in the field it was brutal. They marched for weeks on near starvation rations. Poor hygiene led to epidemics of disease. Poor sanitation and no knowledge of infection meant that many of those injured in battle died of infections between battles.While statistics almost invariably show men to have greater brute strength, they just as consistently show women to have greater constitutional strength. In natural disasters women tend to have a higher survival rate than men. (A lot of this can be chalked up to simple estrogen and body fat. Higher body fat gives women a bigger cushion against malnutrition.) If you are considering who to take on a long campaign with you, this might figure into your thinking. The point of all this comes to this: being able to lift more weight over your head doesn’t necessarily translate into being a better warrior, or having a better chance at survival. There are many factors and brute strength is just one of them.

1 year ago | View Shared by tei

I wore Asia's best selling chest binders | Heroine Binders - Invidious

#gender #binders | this video made me feel insane

1 year ago | View Shared by tei

You should’ve asked | Emma

#gender #society | Comic on "mental load" in m/f relationships

2 years ago | View Shared by tei

12ft | Men at Work, by Barrett Swanson

#gender #society | Notions of American masculinity have long drawn on a shallow pool of tropes, most of which we tend to associate with fictionalizations of the frontier: the lonesome swagger of John Wayne, the gruff reticence of the cowboy. But up until the end of the nineteenth century, the ideal of American masculinity was far more communal. The historian E. Anthony Rotundo has observed that the masculinity of the colonial era wasn’t defined by chest-thumping machismo or brawny, entrepreneurial pluck, but was measured instead by a man’s willingness to forfeit his time and resources for the betterment of his community. Hardly was this a matter of “emotional intelligence.” Rather, his duties were fulfilled through “publick usefulness.”

2 years ago | View Shared by tei

Toxic Masculinity and the Brokenness of Boyhood - The Atlantic

#gender

4 years ago | View Shared by tei

The Boys Are Not All Right - The New York Times

#gender | Men and emotion

6 years ago | View Shared by tei

LINKDING

Shared bookmarks

User

Tags