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DNA proves fearsome Viking warrior was a woman:
A 10th century Viking unearthed in the 1880s was like a figure from Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries: an elite warrior buried with a sword, an ax, a spear, arrows, a knife, two shields, and a pair of warhorses. [...] a new study published today in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology finds that the warrior was a woman—the first high-status female Viking warrior to be identified. Excavators first uncovered the battle-ready body among several thousand Viking graves near the Swedish town of Birka, but for 130 years, most assumed it was a man—known only by the grave identifier, Bj 581. [...] Now, the warrior's DNA proves her sex, suggesting a surprising degree of gender balance in the Vikings' violent social order.
Her name was Lagertha.
Reference: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, et. al., A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23308
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:29PM (1 child)
How does that fit into the feminist/SJW agenda that there is no biological difference between men and women? There is no way DNA can prove sex!
Misrepresenting your opponents argument to such a laughable extent just shows normal people how weak your position is. Keep it up!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @02:38AM
He just can't wrap his mind around the theory that the brain is sexed organ, preferring his theory of gender that involves epicycles, denying any data his theory doesn't explain well. Never mind the inherent contradictions that crop up in gender essentialist talking points, especially of the MRA variety. (Never in the same comment, of course.)
Flat-Earthers can get really creative, you know! The gender essentialists have some catching up to do! My favorite is the “shadow object!” [theflatearthsociety.org]
Just sounds cool. Gender essentialists don't have anything that sounds nearly that cool.