[ 2 / 2 ] I know it’s not entirely relevant to this blog, but could you at least point me and others in the right direction? I’m sure there’s others who’d be interested in the subject…
I asked for an anecdote, and you gave me something much more considered and intelligent. Thanks for answering my question!
Sadly, I’m not “allowed” to post anecdotes.
As you might have noticed, even this level of analysis is still “not supported enough” for some people. Nary a word may slip past my keyboard unless I have ten white male authors to back it up, as we have seen. Anecdotal evidence remains the privilege of the likes of astrokid248, as seen here:
astrokid248 said [response to this post]:
Where the hell are you going that people are getting harassed out of SCA and ren faires? I’ve been to a lot of southern ones and that’s never happened in my experience.
Which, unless I hunt down some obscure Ivy League study about the rates of racist harassment at Renfaires and SCA events, will stand as the gospel truth until someone with a lot of money and patience proves with “science” that racism and racist harassment exists. And that we’re not just all somehow “choosing” to be harassed by picking especially racist places to exist in public, or whatever the heck astrokid the blog buzzard is implying with that.
But honestly and truly, I enjoyed answering your question, and hope to continue to answer people’s question for as long as possible.
I now have a great desire to hear the more accurate side of women's history. I've never believed the traditional story us in school ("women became second-class citizens cuz all they did was make babies & pleasure men, while men did everything else, but hey here some ancient cultures that did give women some rights! Not as much rights as women have now, because now women are equal to men! right? riiight?"). But your the first person with expertise in history to tell me otherwise! [ 1 / 2 ]
[ 2 / 2 ] I know it’s not entirely relevant to this blog, but could you at least point me and others in the right direction? I’m sure there’s others who’d be interested in the subject…