I'm sure it was a careless transcriber, because I've repeatedly seen lists which are mostly the names of men use male pronouns attached to obviously female names, but probably not the person who put the records on the website. It's one of the ways women are accidentally erased from history. If their names aren't recorded and the pronoun slips because someone reads/writes/copies what they expect to see....
Although these women were one of the groups of working women often subject to gender-related insults because of their hardiness and appearance.
It must have an even more egregious effect in societies who don't use gendered names but do use similar pronouns (or ungendered pronouns/honoriffics).
Some of the women warriors I've posted in the past have spent much of history being referred to with male honoriffics and sometimes swapped pronouns too (and I'm talking about wore-clothes-coded-feminine and/or were-married-to-men-in-socirties-which-only-recognised-het-cis-marriage women here).
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(I assumed the pronoun things - could only find "he" not "his" or "him" - was slopping typing on the behalf of the transcriber...)
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Although these women were one of the groups of working women often subject to gender-related insults because of their hardiness and appearance.
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Some of the women warriors I've posted in the past have spent much of history being referred to with male honoriffics and sometimes swapped pronouns too (and I'm talking about wore-clothes-coded-feminine and/or were-married-to-men-in-socirties-which-only-recognised-het-cis-marriage women here).
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::does dance of having pleased Moi::
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Also: are those boy children with them, or short blokes?
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are those boy children with them, or short blokes?
I don't know but they're probably all going to a stoning.... /Python
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