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gpoy me talking to my dog

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"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?"

Sandi Toksvig WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER REBLOG THIS QUOTE

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I’m taking a class called The Archaeology of Sex and Gender (I’m an anthropology and art history major), and we were studying female figurines from the Neolithic era. Some girl in my class brought up the point that when male figurines with giant phalli were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of power. When female figures with giant vulvas were discovered, they were interpreted by academics as symbols of fertility. “Why can’t the giant vulva be a symbol of power too?” she asked.

It blew my mind and reaffirmed my decision to study anthropology and art history.

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Always seek knowledge

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Always reblog. This is so awesome.

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Such a good quote.

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This quote gives me chills every time I read it. Also, awesome story, strugglingtobeheard!

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This reminds me of a conversation a friend and I had recently about our work. She’s in the very early stages of writing her dissertation on scribes in early medieval England, specifically female scribes. One of the things we vented about was the universal assumption that men copied the vast majority of manuscripts in the period, when there’s actually very, very little evidence to suggest that level of exclusivity. There are very few manuscripts we know for a fact were copied by men, and most are anonymous. And if you look at the nature of religious institutions in England and the status of women between 700-1000ish, 1.) quite a few monasteries were founded by aristocratic women; 2.) many were dual houses, which housed both male and female religious, and some of those houses were politically influential—and also headed by women—and thus were likely to have access to good libraries; 3.) there is evidence that women in important institutions were reading and writing correspondence in Latin; and 4.) there is also evidence that noble women were patrons of book production and literate themselves (in the vernacular if not in Latin), because wills from the period survive in which women bequeath their libraries to various people. None of this is concrete, but I don’t think it’s a leap to argue that it’s almost just as likely any given anonymous copyist could as easily be a woman as a man. But in manuscript studies, the assumption is always that, unless the text might have some “obvious” interest to women, the copyist is a man. Which is pretty damn ridiculous, and just another reminder that the effacement of women’s contributions to civilization and the transmission (and generation!) of knowledge is an ongoing process of willful forgetting, as well as ignorance.

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I can relate to the statues of women with giant reproductive parts being labeled as “degrading” or “fertility” when I thought it represented power.

Basically not everything revolves around 1950’s middle class/Victorian period gender roles people.

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and fertility is power too

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i love this

ACCURATE.

i laughed SO HARD

i laughed SO HARD

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hey yowl

My friend Nancy is trying to publish this book of anonymous user-submitted vignettes called How Did You Get Here? Like I said, it’s anonymous of course and it’s inspirational and qt and if you or any of your followers have a story you’d like to share with the world beyond tumblr, this is a nice chance to do it.

http://howdidyougethere777.tumblr.com/

Please submit, reblog, and/or pass the word along!

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i see….

benjaminknope:

 

Walter: Listen, something’s come up. I think it’s a good opportunity. There’s been a job opening. I need a new lab assistant.
Jesse: I already did my time. Why don’t you just get yourself a monkey?
Walter: I don’t want a monkey. I want you.
Jesse: Oh, gee, thanks. Well, not interested. I got my own thing going on. And nice try saving your asshat brother-in-law.
Walter: That’s not why I’m here, Jesse. There’s more. It’s more than an assistant. Partners. We’d be partners again. Split everything, 50/50, just like before. 1.5 million dollars. Each.
Jesse: No.
Walter: I don’t think you heard me.
Jesse: I heard you fine. I said no.
Walter: You understand this: you are turning down one and a half million dollars.
Jesse: I am not turning down the money! I am turning down you! You get it?! I want nothing to do with you! Ever since I met you, everything I ever cared about is gone! Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg! I have never been more alone! I HAVE NOTHING! NO ONE! ALRIGHT, IT’S ALL GONE, GET IT? No, no, no, why…why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? You don’t give a shit about me! You said I was no good. I’m nothing! Why would you want me, huh? You said my meth is inferior, right? Right? Hey! You said my cook was GARBAGE! Hey, screw you, man! Screw you!
Walter: Your meth is good, Jesse. As good as mine.

What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want, right?

always and forever he’s the fucking same :””’[

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