Amazons. Good to know.
So I just got back from my History of Ancient Greece class (the teacher is either the most boring person ever or the most secretly badass person ever, I have no idea) and now I know fascinating things about Amazon boobies.
Yep. Boobs. A brief history of Amazon women: they were a society of women, ruled by women. Warriors who primarily fought with bows and arrows, they cared little for men outside of kidnapping and then having sex with them. Once they got pregnant, the boytoy got axed.
As warriors, they prided themselves on being physically fit and able, training from childhood. The thing about women though is that sometimes puberty is very generous, and a well-endowed woman, while attractive, now has these huge balloons getting in the way of her bow. So they would lop it off. Whichever side the woman in question favored, right-hand, etc., the breast that would get in the way of her aim would be removed.
In language, the letter 'a' is usually placed in front of a word to negate the meaning: apathetic, asymmetry, apathy, amoral. The hellenic word for 'breast' is mazos, and the word for 'without-breast' is a-mazos.
A-mazos = Amazon. Breastless women.
I find this both very informative and amusing. Because while in todays society, women value having a nice chest, these ladies chopped them off so they could kick your ass more efficiently. I call that a win.
Yep. Boobs. A brief history of Amazon women: they were a society of women, ruled by women. Warriors who primarily fought with bows and arrows, they cared little for men outside of kidnapping and then having sex with them. Once they got pregnant, the boytoy got axed.
As warriors, they prided themselves on being physically fit and able, training from childhood. The thing about women though is that sometimes puberty is very generous, and a well-endowed woman, while attractive, now has these huge balloons getting in the way of her bow. So they would lop it off. Whichever side the woman in question favored, right-hand, etc., the breast that would get in the way of her aim would be removed.
In language, the letter 'a' is usually placed in front of a word to negate the meaning: apathetic, asymmetry, apathy, amoral. The hellenic word for 'breast' is mazos, and the word for 'without-breast' is a-mazos.
A-mazos = Amazon. Breastless women.
I find this both very informative and amusing. Because while in todays society, women value having a nice chest, these ladies chopped them off so they could kick your ass more efficiently. I call that a win.