I'm curious to what the food culture is like, and day to day life. Also what is your relationship to natural disasters? Heat waves, earthquakes, wind storms? How do you prepare, and deal with these problems. What sort of religion(s) are popular here?
Whenever I hear "pussy" being used as an insult it feels misogynistic, and puts a bad taste in my mouth. But when I hear people using the word "cunt" I get no such feeling. I know that some consider "cunt" to be a sexist slur, but I've never heard anyone consider "dick" to be sexist, though it is definitely an insult. In my personal use of the English language "cunt" "dick" and "asshole" are all gender neutral synonyms, that can be used to insult any nasty person of any gender. Both dick and pussy are insults, but one definitely feels sexist, while the other does not. And to some people, both dick and cunt are the **exact same** insult, but only one feels sexist?
My best guess to why is power dynamics. Misogyny often shapes the power dynamics between men and women, while misandry very rarely holds weight over the power dynamics of a given situation.
It seems to me and my cursory understanding that counting systems used to be far more varied. Now I've heard that we use base ten because we have ten fingers. In light of this I'd like to point out that there are methodes to count on your fingers for base twenty, and base thirty.
All of this has me questioning why specifically we settled on base ten. It makes sense to me that as trade between cultures became more and more common that we would all come to use the same counting system.
Side question: have any of you learned to do math in a different counting system? How difficult is it?
Sorry if this doesn't fit here r/AskLinguistics took my post down and told me to post here. Not sure what counting systems have to do with Anthropology, but here you go.
I have built a little world, and decided to use Mythras because I thought the system would be good for a low fantasy world. I am not too experienced with story telling/gming. My player (it's a 1 on 1 campaign) has decided to play a plague cultist. He rolled up a middle aged nomadic assassin slave, so to make it work I borrowed a concept from Elisabeth Wheatley, and made his character a Khadrahan. A person cursed so that he cannot disobey his master which in this setting is a plague priestess. After he roles up his character we have a session zero, where he stealths into a city poisons a barracks food supply, get's out, poisons some livestock, and dips out of the city.
With hardly any effort, or build up he was able to deal massive amounts of damage to this walled city. Seeing how easily he was able to deal this much damage has left me racking my brain to find ways to introduce drama and stakes. I have no idea what to do, other than to just watch him and his tribe completely wipe out and disease every bastion of civilization. I'd really like to become a good gm, but I feel very out of my depth here.
This is a rant about my experience growing up around pro-natalist Christians.
Growing up I have always been horrified at the concept of carrying a child. As a little girl when I would sit down with the women in my family and tell them that I don’t want to ever become pregnant, they would gently tell me that I ultimately do not have a choice-just like how they didn’t.
They’d tell me I’d forget the pain, the hormones would make it okay. Fuck the pain and fuck the hormones.
It would disgust me how casually they would tell me I don’t have control over my body because I am a woman, like I’m not a person but a machine.
Most of the mothers I see mourn their old bodies. Like it’s just fate-I’m just gonna trade off loving myself for motherhood. When they tell me this I just nod, whatever makes you feel better.
Child me would think-suggesting I don’t have a choice implies violation and loss of autonomy. I would rather die before I surrender myself to “biological incentives”.
I'm in love with low fantasy. It is the primary genre of my table top sessions thus far. I love watching the drama unfold in a gritty unfair world that has little to no magic. The stakes of fighting a powerful monster with no magic to aid our hero. The triumph of justice in an unfair world, and the crushing heel of reality against idiologues.
​
Please don't mention Game of Thrones. I know about Game of Thrones.
​
Bonus points for:
​
- fantasy stories in a non european setting
​
- unethical/morally complex protagonist
I am mtf, and I have a strict do not touch the dick policy when it comes to my body. I have a partner who is really good at sex
He can go at it for hours. He almost always finishes multiple times. Last week he managed 11 times without a break, it felt amazing, and I was on my way there before he tapped out. He's gotten me close a few times, but has never gotten me all the way there. Not everything that feels good feels like he's getting me closer to orgasm. I've only ever had one orgasm during sex, and it wasn't pleasant, it was quite painful, and I wasn't consenting. Now that I have a partner who makes me feel safe I really want to achieve an orgasm with him.
I am trans woman(male to female) and I believe that male socialization has done a lot of damage upon my character. Misogyny is prevalent in our culture and it has definitely taken a presence in my life. Miso meaning hatred; gyny meaning women, misogyny meaning hatred of women. I remember being young as 6 years old and feeling like I was supposed to hate girls. As in it felt like a social obligation. I had friendships with girls that I broke off because boys weren't supposed to like girls. I was taught such pointless cruelty by my father. I remember whenever my dad was driving, and an animal came out into the road, he would hit the gas and speed up. No matter how much I pleaded with him to stop he never did. Eventually I came to accept it, and I just tolerated it. I first had the thought that I wanted to be a girl when I was 5, and I remember immediately being embarrassed by that thought. As young as that I knew being a girl wasn't supposed to be something I wanted, it was supposed to be something shameful. Weather it's because of some fact of biology, an effect of hormones upon the brain, or just socializion I truly believe your average woman is above the average man. I feel like I have so much to unlearn, so much to dig up, unmask, and dispose of. I heard someone say internalized misogyny, but I think there's some misandry in there too. I don't know what I'm trying to say, I just wanted to wrote it down and for someone to see it.