Modern, scientific man has written women out of history
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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.htmlThe 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@gerrymcgovern And MAGA is the force trying to rewrite history again.
I’m quite sure this happens again and again and again. Because that’s the nature of dominance hierarchy behaviour.
Co-operative people, egalitarian people, build. Then the dominators show up and pretend like they built it.
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@gerrymcgovern And MAGA is the force trying to rewrite history again.
I’m quite sure this happens again and again and again. Because that’s the nature of dominance hierarchy behaviour.
Co-operative people, egalitarian people, build. Then the dominators show up and pretend like they built it.
@gimulnautti That's it. Nothing but the same old story, but some manage to resist, and now that is what we must do.
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@gerrymcgovern "In peacetime, particularly during the early 20th century that was a politically charged period for Japan as it engaged in colonial expansion, Dr Buckland says the samurai image was manipulated for the purposes of galvanising a national identity. " The word this writer is failing to use is "fascism". In a world that is rapidly accelerating back into fascism, not using it is definitely a choice! Early 20th century Japan was fascist. The re-writing of Japanese history in that time was fascist action done by fascists. I hope that in 100 years people are not lying about our fascists here in 2020s USA. Our fascists are also re-writing history, RIGHT NOW.
An accurate and also more useful way to say this would have been "the Japanese fascists wrote women out of their history to build up a warrior myth to justify imperial atrocities."
@dirtwizard666 Too true. Fascist indeed. And what underlies fascist movements is the cult of the macho man, the cult of violence. Fascism is a particular sport that men excel at for they wrote all the rules.
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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.htmlThe 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-menScáthach, legendary Scottish warrior woman who trained legendary Ulster hero Cú Chulainn
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@gerrymcgovern And MAGA is the force trying to rewrite history again.
I’m quite sure this happens again and again and again. Because that’s the nature of dominance hierarchy behaviour.
Co-operative people, egalitarian people, build. Then the dominators show up and pretend like they built it.
@gimulnautti Or the dominators extract rent where they can and 'liquidate' community-built assets where they can't.
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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.htmlThe 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@gerrymcgovern Many women were warriors, yes, but to say that ”half of samurai were women” is as obvious as saying half of any hereditary group is/was women. Samurai was the social class.
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@gerrymcgovern Many women were warriors, yes, but to say that ”half of samurai were women” is as obvious as saying half of any hereditary group is/was women. Samurai was the social class.
@ahltorp @gerrymcgovern Yes. That. And apparently this is lost on many....
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@ahltorp @gerrymcgovern Yes. That. And apparently this is lost on many....
@drchaos @ahltorp @gerrymcgovern Just deceptive clickbait IMO
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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.htmlThe 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@gerrymcgovern Unfortunately, if you read well the article about samurai women, it doesn't recall a role too far from a male-dominated culture.
Maybe, what's notable is that our modern, western, patriarchal society inferred that the role of a samurai was male exclusive. This discover then changes our view, but doesn't shake the modern Japanese society. -
@gerrymcgovern Many women were warriors, yes, but to say that ”half of samurai were women” is as obvious as saying half of any hereditary group is/was women. Samurai was the social class.
@ahltorp except that's not obvious from media featuring samurai. The weapons, armor, attire, tools, and training of samurai women are often left out of historical records and references, which imply these things were relevant only to men.
For the same reason, there's a note currently on Wikipedia's "Homosexuality in Japan" page saying, "This article is missing information about female homosexuality in historical Japan."
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@drchaos @ahltorp @gerrymcgovern Just deceptive clickbait IMO
@marshray @drchaos @gerrymcgovern Women were regularly educated in fighting, I think that’s quite uncontested, but most were probably educated with a focus on defence, although that’s murkier, and has probably been made murky by misogyny.
During the whole Edo period, I would say most samurai focus was on ”appropriate behaviour, etiquette and the right cultural preparation”, regardless of sex. But I’m prepared to be challenged by the course I’m starting tomorrow in Edo era history.
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@marshray @drchaos @gerrymcgovern Women were regularly educated in fighting, I think that’s quite uncontested, but most were probably educated with a focus on defence, although that’s murkier, and has probably been made murky by misogyny.
During the whole Edo period, I would say most samurai focus was on ”appropriate behaviour, etiquette and the right cultural preparation”, regardless of sex. But I’m prepared to be challenged by the course I’m starting tomorrow in Edo era history.
@ahltorp @drchaos @gerrymcgovern “They were a vital part of the elite order”
Look at the original post and consider whether that usage of ‘samurai’ fits with the other four examples given.
It’s a shameless motte-and-bailey, clickbait-and-switch, underhanded tactic by The Independent.
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@ahltorp except that's not obvious from media featuring samurai. The weapons, armor, attire, tools, and training of samurai women are often left out of historical records and references, which imply these things were relevant only to men.
For the same reason, there's a note currently on Wikipedia's "Homosexuality in Japan" page saying, "This article is missing information about female homosexuality in historical Japan."
@shadowfals @gerrymcgovern From a Japanese perspective, I would say it’s obvious that samurai was a social class, and that the women were as much samurai as the men. Europeans mangling this is their own problem.
But then there is the issue of what type of military education and engagement samurai women had, and there I think there are internal Japanese problems in the historical records, based on misogyny.
But also, ”samurai” were two very different things before and after 1600.
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@drchaos @ahltorp @gerrymcgovern Just deceptive clickbait IMO
@marshray You're missing the point. The point is not so much "women were warriors" it is "our reductive telling of history* is heavily tilted to disregard most of what is important, and so our idea of what 'samurai' means, is just plain wrong."
We're so used to "hero stories" and main characters that we're oblivious to this.
*) let's be honest, this is true for the stories we tell today.
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