who on earth coined the stereotype that girls are obsessed with changing clothes i’ve been wearing the same t shirt and pajama pants for two days now and the same bra for like three
OOH OOH I KNOW THIS ONE! so in the elizabethan era queen elizabeth couldn’t appear like she was having That Time of the Month in front of the male members of her court, and you bet your ass if she had to remain in the public eye while she was bleeding from the snatch then the rest of the female courtiers did too. because they didn’t have handy dandy tampons back in the day, they would basically shove a rag down there and inevitably bleed onto the inner layers of their clothes. she what did they do? changed clothes. about eight times a day to be precise, and they did that all month long, so none of the delicate male constitutions would be offended by unseen yet implied bloody lady parts. this is part of why fashion was such a huuuuuge cultural item (and the secondhand clothing industry was such a huge part of society) because they had to appear like they were just doing it out of vanity/showing off their wealth. this became pretty much the standard mode of behavior for ladies who had to be out and about during shark week, right up until some nurses realized that the specialized gauze pads they used to plug up bullet wounds would work great for other such bleeding holes.
so yeah if you were wondering why dudes think women change their clothes a lot its because they don’t understand periods.
It always comes down to men not being able to handle periods
Contributing my favorite bit about how women used to handle periods –
My grandmother was born in deep woods Texas in the late 1890′s. They were dirt poor subsistence farmers and didn’t have a lot of clothes to spare when everything was hand sewn. One of the major social events of the time, in the summer, was an “All Day Meeting and Dinner on the Grounds” on a Sunday. They would meet on the church grounds – a grassy wooded area by the church for whole day of preaching, praying, singing hymns, and socializing, including a picnic lunch. (It was much cooler outside than in the closed up church.) It was also a prime occasion for courting, near the family and in full view, but a little away, talking quietly.
Young single women of the time were expected to wear long white gowns for socializing. Menstrual protection consisted of a hand sewn bundle of rags, and the only restroom facility was a multi-hole outhouse, the only running water a nearby stream. You see the problem.
Two of her sisters were wild and reckless with their health and would dredge up ice cold water from the very bottom of the well to pour over themselves right before dressing to leave. This shocked their bodies into temporarily stop or slow down the flow, but it only helped so much. Apparently a maneuver that young women learned early was how to gracefully sink down onto the grass, spreading their long white skirts around them so that they are bleeding directly onto the grass, and not onto their dress.
So if you see photos or paintings of a family sitting on a quilt picnicking, and next to them is a young woman sitting on the grass with her skirts spread gracefully around her – she’s on her period.
what else can loki lay claim to that thor doesn’t already have?
Oh, interesting.
Of course, for every secret there’s a reason. It’s irrelevant to Thor. It would burden Thor to know. It would only cause Thor pain. And there’s truth in all of those reasons.
But he also just wants the luxury of being the sole possessor of certain experiences or pieces of knowledge, particularly, I imagine, if those secrets are deeply personal.
to add to this “humans are weird” thing did you know that humans are the only species on earth with the ability to throw things with any significant degree of accuracy and force (apes can throw with about the force of a human ten year old, but cant lock their wrists well enough for accuracy)
and we just never really think about it bc its so easy and simple to us that pretty much all of our sports are based around the concept of throwing things accurately
so what if the concept of projectile weapons takes most species FOREVER to get the hang of, or even come up with in the first place. a human goes onto a ship and throws some trash into the nearest reclaimer, shouts “kobe!” and all the other aliens on board absolutely LOSE THEIR MINDS
I definitely didn’t know this about humans but it’s actually really neat
‘This place needs a dartboard.’ *darts is explained* ‘You… throw sharp objects at a tiny point on a circle with the expectation of hitting it and mock those who do not achieve this amazing feat.’ ‘It’s better if you’ve had a couple of beers.’ ‘You insist that you’re more accurate when partially intoxicated. I have seen you intoxicated. Fine motor control is not something I associate with intoxication.’ ‘The one sport where doping is actually encouraged.’ ‘Humans. How. Just how. ’ ‘You think this is hard, try throwing cards.’
I’m now super enchanted with the idea that there are all these alien racs out there that basically didn’t do projectiles until at least they had geometry and aerodynamics worked out– no throwing stones or slings and arrows, nothing range until catapults with some heavy maths calculations behind them because they couldn’t eyeball it. And some of them not even having that– going from hand-to-hand to computer-targetted bombs, pretty much. And then coming to earth and finding out about spears and bows and arrows and slings and skipping stones– and suddenly there’s a rush on their homeworlds of all these really bad pop-xenopyschoanthropology books about the effect of being able to kill at a distance on our pyschocultural development, how it effects our perception of ourselves and the universe – all these bad science, lurid explanations about how this has effected our strange alien minds to give us warped senses of territoriality or death or social-unit-bonding.
Of all the humans are weird I like this one the most. Feels mundane enough yet just weird enough without making us out to be supersoldiers because I dunno I guess aliens have weak constitutions now or something..
Most ‘humans are weird’ things try to focus on the things humans can do that most animals can’t, but like, they kinda blow it out of proportion. Like sure humans are sturdier than most animals but not by THAT much.
Personally, I’ve always like the combination of facts that A) We’re obscenely flexible compared to anything with else with bones B) We have crazy endurance and C) We’re DTF pretty much whenever. And whatever, for that matter.
Super soldiers nothing, I’m pretty sure Humans would be the Weird Sex Alien.
Those ones are also decent and reasonable “humans can be cool space alien planet of hat biological archetypes too!”
humans:
internal organs are full of acid
eats poison for fun
can throw things like woah
can run for a long time even when normally you would get tired
Oh hey, I thought I recognized Summer Glau as the prima ballerina in that one episode of “Angel.” (Which I started watching again, illegally, because I ran out of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”)
Her Russian accent is terrible.
I’m really amused by the fact that a hamburger statue came to life to spout prophecies.
I’m also horrified that Lilah ordered a 30-year-old Scotch with ice cubes.
Alexis Denisof’s English accent is *way* better than James Marsters’. I haven’t noticed any trap/bath split violations.
I have gotten fuck-all done today and I can’t stop watching “Angel”
The Pylean word for “the vigil of the bereaved” is “shiv-roth.” Sounds an awful lot like sitting shiva. The writer of the episode is named David Goodman and the director is David Grossman, so…
Some demon doing a fake English accent said “ass” instead of “arse.”
I’ve heard a lot about how powerful Wesley’s arc is in the later part of the show and I think I’m seeing the beginning of it.
Holy crap, I IMDbed the guy who played teenage Connor and he also played Pete Campbell on “Mad Men.”
Omg, I knew the guy who played the Groosalugg was Canadian. He says “sorry” like “sore-y.”
Love the “color commentary” @philosopherking1887. I do have to mention, Spike is “my guy” – my fave Buffy character. His accent and everything else about him worked for me.
For the most part his accent sounds fine. He just had some issues with putting words in the correct lexical sets. I’m sure someone from the UK would hear more phonetic problems than I can… I just hear the coarse-grained stuff, like when he uses short ‘a’ in words like “can’t,” “past,” and “bath.”
Loki is the Philosopher King 