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You're gonna be disappointed in the rest of the internet and a significant amount of the adults in the world if this language is so foul as to bother you. Compl
by Osmose 4y ago
You're gonna be disappointed in the rest of the internet and a significant amount of the adults in the world if this language is so foul as to bother you. Completely unnecessary callout.
Either way, a skim of some google results looking for other articles on medieval bathing references evidence in the form of obituaries mentioning deaths of peasants while bathing in rivers, as well as the existence of bathhouses in small towns and recorded prices that were within a peasant's budget. It seems pretty plausible.
- raarts 4y ago- soap is a motherfucking medieval invention - Your peasant ass - Medieval bathhouses were big fucking business. - Sex workers be showing right TF up in the public baths. - clearly, fucking clearly medieval people bathed - they wanted you to not be going down the bath house and getting your fuck on. - Hitting your chest with rocks and sitting in the desert trying not to wank This is completely unnecessary. You forget this is supposed to be a scientist we're talking about here. Someone with a PhD. Great adult example for the kids.
- Osmose 4y agoFolks with PhDs (and/or scientists) swear _all the time_, especially on their own blog that has "swearing" in the subheader as the third most important descriptor and that isn't aimed directly at children. This has nothing to do with the credibility of the article except as tone policing.
- raarts 4y agoBeing part of a (STEM) college faculty, I communicate with scientists on a regular basis. They are usually very polite and precise in their language. Sidenote: nothing wrong with tone policing most of the time. It is exactly what parents do when they raise kids.
- UncleMeat 4y agoIt's a fun blog, not a journal article. And it seems to be successful. She's one of the more widely known public historians of the medieval period. Medievalists, in my experience, love this stuff. If you spend time on medieval twitter you'll find them sharing loads and loads of dirty images found in old books.
- prvc 4y agoAlso worth considering that the author refers to herself with the title "Dr.", suggesting an implicit demand to receive all the respect and prestige that presumptively attends such an honorific.
- nkurz 4y ago> You're gonna be disappointed in the rest of the internet and a significant amount of the adults in the world if this language is so foul as to bother you Yup, you've got that right. > Completely unnecessary callout. Nope, it can still be worthwhile to try to maintain high standards even if they are not universally followed. I'm not offended by this article, but I thought it was less effective than it could have been if it had used vulgarity more selectively. Presumably the author thinks it helps her to reach the audience she is aiming for, and she might be right, but it was a turn-off for me, and apparently quite a few others on this thread.
- glogla 4y agoLooking at comment history, the gp is arguing with people about free speech and defending "true conservative ideas". His comment is also the only one mentioning the blog authors gender and political leaning. So this is probably just casual misogyny from a usual suspect.