Two posts that ended up being about men

[trinityvixen]

I don't truck with that "five things make a post" idea, not least of all because on the way to collecting five things, I have probably already tweeted four of them and see no need to repeat myself. So this is a "two things make this not a tweet" sort of post.

I was trying to find a way to post about this round-up of The 7 Deadliest Deadliest

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[trinityvixen]

It's hard to argue against people preserving their culture, even if it is a martial or violent one, provided they don't actually hurt anyone doing it. Especially those cultures that have otherwise been overthrown or forcibly sublimated by western cultures. Doesn't mean I don't think it's stupid when anyone spends their lives learning to use obsolete weapons (my Viking and Scots brothers included). But if they want to preserve a culture along side that expertise, I guess I can't complain.

I do love the computer system and how the handwaving about what it's doing when it ranks the matches indicates how badly Spike is reading its audience. It assumes that only meathead males are interested in what is actually an extremely nerdy exercise. Yes, manly men are the ones doing all the destroying, and it's all a show of warrior prowess, which provides a lot of the entertainment, don't get me wrong. But the presumed premise is the match, the competition. We need to see how the rankings work in order to buy that, say, a pirate can take on a knight and win. I mean, they have a true-to-life nerd doing the computations (he's a video game designer, too!)--let him have a half-hour special about how he's coming up with these numbers!!!

But, yes, the weapons demonstrations are awesome.