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: 4, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:22PM (5 children)
Wanted to say similar. Feminists would be good to take a look at what women are capable of when not focusing one's energies on creating a pervasive narrative about how all womyn-born-womyn would be “rock star” programmers who write bug-free code on the first attempt every time, if only it weren't for $excuse.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:31PM (2 children)
Yup. I see the SJW types are out early this morning too. Must have been a sale on Venezuelan, organic, cruelty-free mocha-lattes down at Starbucks this morning. Here, have a preemptive upmod to counter some of the inevitable rage-mods.
Mods: Now that was a Troll post. GP was just cold, hard reality even if it does hurt your pussies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:48PM
This was +Informative,
But then... you can bring a mod to water but you can't make it drink
(grin)
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Starbuck sells shit not coffee.
Myself, I prefer Colombian, organic, cruelty-free double short backs with half-sugar but I'll be damn'd if I'd step in a Starbucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:37PM
FTFY.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:32PM
The Sex- part I get. What the hell would -cuse mean, though?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 17 2017, @01:15PM
To be fair, the majority of us misogynists imagine that we write correct bug-free code first time as well that's why we won't do TDD and we certainly won't test our code before shipping it to the customer. I fear for the human race, I really do. Never mind, the insects will thrive.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].