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i hate academia and institutional learning so much

FUCKING HELL I WANT TO KILL MYSELF LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT

“Despite the presence of does as beasts of the chase, female animals (apart from birds of prey) appear to have been scorned and, like their human counterparts, are rarely mentioned in their treatises” (Amanda Richardson, ‘Riding Like Alexander, Hunting Like Diana’)

NEWSFLASH ASSHOLE!!!!!

PEOPLE DON’T HUNT THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES BECAUSE THEY HAVE!!!! BABIES!!!! THEY KEEP THE SPECIES ALIVE!!!! FUCKING HELL EVEN MODERN DAY HUNTERS KNOW THIS YOU DON’T KILL THE MOTHERS OR THEY WON’T BE ANYTHING TO HUNT LEFT YOU FUCKING PRETENTIOUS WHACK JOBS LIKE THIS ENTIRE 19 PAGE ESSAY WAS PULLED OUT OF YOUR ASS I CANT FUCKING STAND THIS

this is why i almost killed myself senior year

“women were put in castles because the Big Mean Men wanted to isolate them because society is Evil and Mean”

or maybe!!!!!! women were kept in safe places!!!! because!!!!! they also raise the next generation of HUMAN BEINGS!!!! gee i wonder WHY we would want to make sure the important folks that insure OUR SURVIVAL (because hey guess what!! it’s still the Middle Ages!!! we don’t have a lot of room to screw around!!! people be dying, ho!!!!) were safe!!!! I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE!! It MUST be because everyone was Mean!!!! that HAS to be it!!!!

I mean, it’d be nice if we can look at the implications of how keeping women safe led to them being sheltered off from certain parts of society and how that was later addressed in Women’s Suffrage and First and Second Wave Feminism, absolutely. We can talk about how the intent to keep women safe for the sake of greater society led to them lacking in areas of power which were later abused and the assumption that since women generally didn’t do certain heavy jobs (physical or mental), it meant they couldn’t, and how far women had to go to prove otherwise, sure.

BUT, maybe it’d be best to keep an objective view of it all instead of seeing everything through our modern lens. There were reasons people did these things that weren’t related to some kind of psychological power play and actually had a practical purpose at the time.