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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, Funny) by Spelli on Tuesday September 12 2017, @12:04PM (8 children)
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!
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:52PM (4 children)
But some yeast can prove sex.
Or, lacking that, some dough at least.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:14PM (3 children)
Bloody regressive left, always after my dough.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:03PM
You're - regressive or not - right again, no surprise for me here.
Now, would you be surprised to hear I'm preferring to be after your yeasty dough than in front of it?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:38PM
> Bloody regressive left, always after my dough.
Conversely, plenty of Neo-Nazis want to warm up the ovens!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @08:23PM
As I have pointed out to you (and others) repeatedly, that's not "The Left".
The Left is Anti-Capitalist.
The Left wants the collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers.
The Left wants to own its workplaces; to make them worker-owned cooperatives and to continue making a living by doing labor--though with a better return on that through a more equitable ownership model.
Now, The Left would like it if the gov't would help with that as has been done in Italy since 1985. [google.com]
...or if the gov't would at least not be antagonistic to the concept--instead of subsidizing megacorporations and the FIRE sector but not worker-owned cooperatives.
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What you're talking about is Liberals who are to the Right of center and who do not reject Capitalism.
They want to more evenly redistribute the profit that Capitalists make from using The Commons (roads, bridges, water systems, rights of way for e.g. communications networks, etc.) and do that via taxation by a government that is a Liberal Democracy where "democracy" means "the majority rules" and not "Those with the gold get to make the rules".
N.B. This was done from FDR through Ike; the top marginal tax rate was over 90 percent then.
It was a time sometimes called the "Happy Days".
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Most Liberals don't want your measly accumulation from your pitiful income, produced by your labor.
It would make them very happy, however, if e.g. the wealth of ONE family was to be redistributed.
That one family alone (Sam Walton's deadbeat heirs), via the exploitation of the labor of others, controls more wealth than 40 percent of all USA residents.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:30PM
It was clearly a transgender.
(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.