{"id":3212,"date":"2014-10-27T00:16:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T00:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/thedirtyoldgentleman-karinaenolan\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T05:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:24:19","slug":"thedirtyoldgentleman-karinaenolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/thedirtyoldgentleman-karinaenolan\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3212 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/thedirtyoldgentleman-karinaenolan\/attachment\/3213\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/10\/tumblr_m1956zew2F1roxnapo1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/thedirtyoldgentleman-karinaenolan\/attachment\/3214\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/10\/tumblr_m1956zew2F1roxnapo2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtyoldgentleman.com\/post\/100851094597\/karinaenolan-durinswrath-kurtsaunt\">thedirtyoldgentleman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/karinaenolan.tumblr.com\/post\/98894298590\/durinswrath-kurtsaunt-justin-john\">karinaenolan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/durinswrath.tumblr.com\/post\/78010751029\/kurtsaunt-justin-john-wtfhistory\">durinswrath<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kurtsaunt.tumblr.com\/post\/77898368749\/justin-john-wtfhistory\">kurtsaunt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/justin-john.tumblr.com\/post\/39207202189\/wtfhistory-theshewomanboyhatersclub\">justin-john<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wtfhistory.tumblr.com\/post\/39053971150\/theshewomanboyhatersclub-jesuisuneetoile\">wtfhistory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theshewomanboyhatersclub.tumblr.com\/post\/38165705465\/jesuisuneetoile-this-is-marriage-thats\">theshewomanboyhatersclub<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jesuisuneetoile.tumblr.com\/post\/38157537143\/this-is-marriage-thats-right-permission-to\">jesuisuneetoile<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>THIS IS MARRIAGE!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thats right!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He looks back at the guy like, <strong>\u201cSEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU\u2019RE SO FUCKED.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS\u2019 FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LET\u2019S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.<\/p>\n<p>In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don\u2019t even get that much.<\/p>\n<p>Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal\u00a0lineage\u00a0wasn\u2019t very important. And it didn\u2019t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.<\/p>\n<p>Spartan women participated in some fuckin\u2019 badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve\u00a0compulsory\u00a0military duties, btw, and couldn\u2019t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn\u2019t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were\u00a0visible\u00a0at all times. HOLY SHIT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.<\/p>\n<p>FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN\u2019 BETTER MAKE SURE SHE\u2019S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE\u2019S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT\u2019S FUCKIN\u2019 GOOD FOR HIM.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, he<em><strong> knew<\/strong><\/em> she was Cersei\u2026 lol<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And the women were trained the exact same way as men were. As children they were equals&#160;; they were not allowed to wear clothing until a certain age and at that point they were sent away to a training camp until they were 18. It was only the men who were sent into the wilderness for an extra two years to ensure their strength for battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plus the women could marry whomever they pleased and the men weren\u2019t allowed to live with the women in their house until she said so. And they were tough in Sparta but also all about family. To have male offspring was good luck, to have female offspring was an honour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This part of the movie was true; King Leonidas really did kill a man because he insulted his wife and he always ensured that he had his wife\u2019s approval. And while Leonidas was away in battle she did rule Sparta on her own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sparta knew what was up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Vikings are actually very similar to this!<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of evidence of women being super hardcore warriors, either protecting the homestead while the men went viking, or even going viking themselves. (Viking is actually a verb, the act of going on raid.)<\/p>\n<p><span>They also had divorce, which involved the woman getting together her posse and declaring that she divorced her husband three times &#8211; first at the entry to her property, second at the door of her house, and finally at the foot of her marriage bed. After that, she was no longer married to the dude, and could take all of the property she brought to the marriage and leave, usually to return to her parent\u2019s home, but often also to marry some other guy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>The moral of this story is that patriarchy doesn\u2019t just effect our present, but also our view of the past.<\/strong> Think that women have been oppressed across all cultures, throughout history? Wrong! Women have been kickass equals for millennia, but it is always the goal of oppressors to rewrite the past so they can use it to support their lifestyle in the present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>History is written by the victors, and right now, the victors are men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Every time I see this come up, there\u2019s another wonderful addition to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thedirtyoldgentleman: karinaenolan: durinswrath: kurtsaunt: justin-john: wtfhistory: theshewomanboyhatersclub: jesuisuneetoile: THIS IS MARRIAGE!! Thats right! Permission to be a bad ass. Nod. He looks back at the guy like, \u201cSEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU\u2019RE SO FUCKED.\u201d Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/thedirtyoldgentleman-karinaenolan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}