Useless red circle, I know, but in my defense I didn’t put it there, it was already like this when I found it.
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My wife is about half my weight. Guess I’ll just get beheaded then.
Women are generally pretty capable of lifting twice their weight. Stand back to back and link arms (you may need to crouch) and if she leans forward and you tense your core and lift your legs you will end up directly over her center of gravity. It’s essentially her lifting you like a backack. It isn’t a super comfortable lift for the guy in the equation if he’s got a weak core but we used to do this all the time at fight night. A teen girl who is maybe 120lbs soaking wet can easily pick up a 6’5 215lbs guy and walk down a city block with him on her back.
In period women were generally muscled as fuck. Fetching household water, hand milling grain for bread and doing laundry were female coded tasks on top of doing whatever yearly hard labour tasks were required. They would absolutely be trucking their favourite guy out of town even if he was big.
In period women were generally muscled as fuck. Fetching household water, hand milling grain for bread and doing laundry were female coded tasks on top of doing whatever yearly hard labour tasks were required. They would absolutely be trucking their favourite guy out of town even if he was big.
Hard labor for survival’s sake can put you above even athletes
I feel like we as a culture do not appreciate the raw physical potential of women. The whole “weaker sex” propaganda was way too successful. Like people have no idea what laundry actually used to entail. I am a history enthusiast and I got ropped into a recreation of a full Tudor washday for an Arts and Sciences competition in the SCA. Like I was working as a concrete former lifting and tying rebar for my job at the time and was stronger than about 70 percent of the folks in my group… But Holy fuck my muscles BURNED from weilding a paddle. Not just stirring but beating clothes with something like a cricket bat and then wringing bedsheets by winding them around posts. By the end of the day I was absolutely done in.
I was given an amazing cheesecake for my trouble in helping out for the task but the real take away was an appreciation for the washing machine that I will never forget.
It had been said that the washing machine has done more for womens’ rights than any political movement.
Women can be strong and mentally superior to men. But saying women are weaker because of propaganda is just wrong.
Female oplympians aren’t slower or weaker because men told them to be. Serena Williams lost vs rank 203 male tennis players during Williams’ peak. There’s plenty of strong women who could kick Tue average males ass. But has a higher baseline strength, and a higher threshold. If they didn’t there would be more mixed competitions.
Competitive sports aren’t really the point I am trying to make here. A lot of women out there really seem to give up before they try or guys treat them automatically like they can’t do things and ask other guys long before they ask for an AFAB person’s help. These days I work in mixed crews and there is this constant assumption /surprise thing guys have and their minds are very easily blown when they see women lifting things that are way below their true ability. Some women by contrast internalize that “I am weak and always will be” message and treat lifting anything over 50lbs as completely impossible until they see other women doing it. It’s like there’s an internalized assumption all around of weakness being an inherent trait and AFAB people who do not fit that stereotype constantly have to reprove themselves over and over again to every new person who shows up.
I feel like we as a culture do not appreciate the raw physical potential of women. The whole “weaker sex” propaganda was way too successful.
This is so true. I basically carry boxes for a living and people tell me constantly that can’t/shouldn’t lift anything heavy. Too many women won’t even try because they’ve been conditioned to think it’s going to break them. One woman refused to lift anything heavy because she still wanted to have children. And by heavy i mean 12-25kg. We are not that fragile.
Cool. I’m sending my wife to the gym tonight.
Well everyone should probably be hitting the gym from time to time these days since activity in general has become kind of optional. Going as a couple can make for the best gym partners. Me and my partner have a good time.
Now now. Let’s not get carried away here!
Women are generally pretty capable of lifting twice their weight.
Is that why we call them ants?
Don’t knock it 'till you’ve tried it.
My wife would take me, instead of complaining that they don’t make them like that anymore why not be the type of person they would want to take?
Checks username
Yeah wait what? I was like, cool meme until I saw the title
See back then and for centuries after even: the default mentality for existing was not as zero-sum as it is today.
Resources and generally speaking: ‘the world’ was seen as expansive and functionally infinite. I.e.: non-zero-sum. One’s acquisition of resources did not inherently detract from another’s resource. Societies would just exile people and consider them dead and gone into the ether.
So a warlord could easily let some shit like this slide. No fight, free castle.
I’m really hoping this type of thinking comes back after we start to explore the solar system & galaxy.
We could still have this thinking today.
The scarcity of resources is largely one of distribution and access: not production or availability. There are more than enough resources. We destroy clothes and food for going unsold. People go homeless and hungry for lack of money or employment, not a lack of shelter or food. Famines are policy decisions.
Only in the immediacy of natural disaster scenarios where infrastructure itself breaks down are we really faced with the kind of reality where there isn’t wasted excess.
If you’re interested I suggest an easy but short read: Operation Manual For Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller. It is old as hell but it does a good job of portraying how such a mindset could work for modern civilization.
Alright, I’ll check it out.
Absolute shittiest moment to be single…
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
🫡
This is the sort of smartass thing I would try right before getting bludgeoned to death.
Yeah a German king during the 12th century, sure, one of the many German kings of that time, like, uh, Hans, or, say, Helmut, yeah why not. Don’t tell me it was Conrad III, that little piece of shit was not the real king of the Germans.
Apparently this happened during the Siege of Weinsberg, and the king in question was indeed Conrad III. I must admit not really knowing much (if anything) about the guy but it seems he must have had at least one decent bone in his body, judging by the outcome.
Thanks for the explanation! #notmyking #antikingsarelosers
#notmyking
It matters not, he is still your king.
I didn’t vote for him
You don’t vote for kings!
Come see the violence inherent in the system.
I’m confused on how to read that hashtag. Anti-kings are losers? Anti-“kings are losers”?
Sorry it was meant to be “Antikings are lobsters”
Time to hit the treadmill, or I’m dead.
Time to hit the gym, or my husband is dead.
Do you even lift, miss?
time to dead, or dead.
That’s just what the ment told the women he said. They just wanted a piggyback ride
Seems fair. Modern women only want to be carried, it seems.
Americans: uh… nah.
Estonian style LMAO
The fact that this article has no images is a crime
!rolereversal@lemmy.ml moment
More crap dumped in /c/memes? Must be Monday…
And here I thought that was made up by the writer of Ever After.
I fucking love Ever After. It’s my sick time movie
They don’t make 'em like this anymore
What? Kings?
Pretty much everyone involved
You mean men who can’t exist unless women do literally everything for them?
I assure you… they most definitely do still make them like that.
No idea how you came to that conclusion.
If their men had been useless to them, surely the women would have picked something else to carry instead.
They came to that conclusion because they hate penis people.
Well yes, but if you say that too loudly on this app you run the risk of having your comment deleted, so I prefer to expose their flawed thinking instead because it can’t as easily be labeled bigotry without taking an openly hostile stand to logic.
Just report people like that.
Report mods?
“on this app”… 😑
That’s right, men are far to heavy these days.
“Useless red circle” is there to accommodate both the lower attention span and attention to detail of younger generations who have been conditioned with ever increasing faster pace of life.
I hate it because I have adhd. Shit like that makes it worse. Makes me feel like cattle.
I’m not just justifying the use of red circle BTW, I’m just explaining as to why it’s common these days in the age of Internet.
I wanted to read this comment, but there was no circle showing me the most relevant info…
“Useless red circle” is there to accommodate both the shitty eyesight and impatience of older generations who have been accustomed to everything being handed to them on a silver platter.
Generalizing generations is fucking stupid.
Do I think boomers are materialistic? Yes. Do I think every boomers are handed with everything on silver platters? Ask those who grew up in the 60s and 70s Asia, Africa and Latin America undergoing wars and social turmoil of what they think. Just because your country is part of the WEIRD acronym it doesn’t mean the “entitled” boomer stereotype applies to everyone else in the world. My parents certainly had to struggle and grew up in a dictatorship.
Attention span is decreasing in younger folks-- that’s the broad consensus. Thanks to the Internet and granting instant gratification. That’s just a fact, so deal with it.
I agree that generalising generations can be stupid, but it is though environment don’t shape people and culture, huh?
I agree that generalising generations can be stupid
Then practice what you preach and edit your comment to not bash on an entire generation?
It “can” be stupid, means it is not always stupid but at times it is.
Learn to read, mate.
And what do you mean bash an entire generation? It is a proven fact. How does one explain the rise of Tiktok and short form videos? We have shorter attention span thanks to the internet.
I can say boomers are materialistic overall because those from the West were handed everything on silver platter and do not want to part those material gains; meanwhile those from poorer countries who gained wealth over the years have scarcity/hoarding mentality after experiencing poverty, like my parents have. How does one explain the difficulty of younger generation to afford their own home for the same salary that their parents were earning in the latter’s 20s?
Environment has as much influence on population mindset. If you are old enough to know that, I don’t need to explain it to you.
I swear, the Internet can be stupid-- and this is one of those times.
I swear, the Internet can be stupid-- and this is one of those times.
Very much a “I hate drama, but it follows me everywhere!” moment for you.
I guess Lemmy millenials and Gen Z can’t accept the fact of having lower attention span 😂
Genuinely starting to feel ableist. Fuck off.
I would like to cast my vote and say that yes, it can be stupid, and your comment was also definitely one of those times :P
There is a nugget of truth at times to generalisation. And it’s not a bad thing to acknowledge flaws.
You must be a butthurt Gen Z or millenial-- and you seem to be embodying the stereotype of snowflake generation even though I dislike it (I always say who raised us if we’re snowflakes?). Because there is modicum of truth; and it’s not a bad thing to acknowledge it. I cast my vote that you give the younger generation a bad name for doing stupid thing-- at times.
