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, Informative) by Geezer on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:34PM (10 children)
Any straight man who has ever been married can vouch for the ferocity, tenacity, and cruelty of the enraged female.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:27PM (9 children)
Let me tell you, we gay girls can too. My ex had a ferocious temper. It was like being a Ragdoll cat getting savaged by a smaller Siamese sometimes, I swear.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:46PM (8 children)
I know, right? Women... Almost enough to make you go straight.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:04PM (5 children)
Sorry but nothing could make me "go straight" any more than anything could make you "go gay." It doesn't work like that. There just isn't any attraction to men here; nothing personal, but you all just don't look or smell (pheremones) right to me. I'm not grossed out by the idea, just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:09PM (1 child)
you should try furniture... it rock... never mind
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:47PM
Also, be wary the way your GF eyes monoliths.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:42PM
> just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings.
Have you by any chance heard of Rule 34?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:43PM (1 child)
> any more than anything could make you "go gay."
I guess you forgot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:01AM
Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutup. That's a SECRET. Are you TRYING to undo all the hard work the Scissor Brigade has done over the last 20 years?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:43PM (1 child)
Haha, TMB is a closet gay? Makes more sense why he's always using penis metaphors.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 13 2017, @03:44PM
Hey you don't call my friend TMB "closet", ok?
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