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[effani]

So I'm in the library at the moment, and I was browsing books, as I am wont to do. A title caught my eye: The Skeptical Feminist, by Barbara G. Walker. "Yes," I thought, that's me, finally a book that understands

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[buirechain]

Ooh, ooh

I've been meaning to say something that this allows me to say; re the general argument women would rule the world more peacefully (I'm not making an argument, but I have to point something out)

Which is to say that women in Saga Iceland controvert (am I using that word right) the argument. While the women did not typically take a direct role in violence, they often argued strongly for blood compensation and continuance of feuds, denigrating men's honor inorder to urge them to further violence(cf William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Oathmaking, c. 212).

[jissa]

Wow. That is the special form of skepticism.