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[–]Datachost 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

they claimed allowing females, including those of Indigenous heritage, on the site would ruin its cultural significance.

That reminds me of a university ran event in Canada a couple of weeks back that warned women in their "moon time" that they wouldn't be allowed to attend. They then tried to explain that it wasn't that the women were banned, but in fact they were so sacred during their "moon time" that they were above needing to attend (but were still excluded)

[–]tiny-brown-mug 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think people forget how messed up, misogynistic, superstitious, and purity-obsessed a lot of pagan cultures are / were. It's not all love and peace and smoking weed and nature. There are all of these specific rules, sex-based segregation, purity rituals, strange rules about marriage and widowhood, etc.

Bring back the native culture and the native women are shocked they can't go wherever they want or hang out with their own brothers because of incredibly specific rules about purity, clan taboos, etc. Every culture has some good points and some weird points. You want to revert to pre-contact culture, things are going to get a little weird.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's just the noble savage mentality brought back again. You've got the cultural supremacist mentalities that lead to a lot of trouble and human rights violations when dealing with the natives but then it snaps back too far the other way and you get people who think the natives are some kind of uncorrupted form of man and that the reason there are problem is capitalism or some shit. It's the idiot Marxists that think the utopian agrarian ideal was some peaceful conglomerate of free spirited flower people or some such nonsense, and not unbroken eons of tribal warfare and slavery and all sorts of naughty shit.

What's funny is the progressive liberals all like to promote tribal traditions and ways of life as anti-colonialism but they're promoting traditions and ways of life that are deeply conservative in ways that run counter to most every progressive liberal ideal.

Like a lot of these societies are literally the patriarchy. Which is hilariously ironic. It reminds me of the sign the petition to end women's suffrage prank.

[–]alladd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the white man's burden is out in full force