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This is what strikes me more than the topic: > The person below you has the advantage of jabbing at your legs Weren't virtually all fighters in those times me
by aristofun 3y ago
This is what strikes me more than the topic:
> The person below you has the advantage of jabbing at your legs
Weren't virtually all fighters in those times men?
- howenterprisey 3y agoCan you expand on that?
- aristofun 3y agowhy use (abuse) the word "person" then?
- beej71 3y agoBecause if you say the "man" it implies that women fighters would not have the same advantage, when clearly they would. As since men are people, I'd argue it's not an abuse of language.
- aristofun 3y agoagain — in those times women did not fight to get advantage in the first place why not use this to be more precise in the language?
- throwbadubadu 3y agoMajority, but not all were men? But why care about that at all and consider it the most striking thing about the article? Even rethinking it 3 times I'm not sure what you find preciser in this, or how it is not completely irrelevant?
- beej71 3y agoYou sound pretty sure that women would never be among the attackers, but that seems like a risky bet to me. There are historical accounts of Viking attackers who were women, for example.
- hnarn 3y agoSo what?
- goodpoint 3y agoNo.
- aristofun 3y agooh really, how much evidence do you have about women storming the castles all the way through inside?
- goodpoint 3y agoLike, reading a book or 30 seconds of googling?
- JdeBP 3y agoHow much evidence do you have that "storming the castles" was how sieges ended at all? Errol Flynn movies are not reality. To quote James Wright, who is an archaeologist: > we know a fair bit about how sieges were ended, and it was never the desperate violent rout on the staircases that is so beloved of Hollywood films. https://triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-mythbusting-blog-2-the-man-who-invented-the-spiral-staircase-myth/ https://triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-my...
- dplavery92 3y agoFrom the captioned art in the article: "Siege, from the Peterborough Psalter, early 14th century, via the KBR Museum, Belgium. Yes, those defenders are all women."