{"id":20701,"date":"2015-12-11T04:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2015-12-11T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:54:52","slug":"quote-a-very-long-sharp-wedding-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20701","title":{"rendered":"Quote: A very long, sharp wedding ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skeletons3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skeletons3-590x332.jpg\" alt=\"skeletons3\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skeletons3-590x332.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skeletons3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skeletons3-940x528.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/skeletons3.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hazlitt.net\/feature\/warrior-womans-work\">Jess Zimmerman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There have probably been more real-life woman warriors than we know. Until recently, archaeologists would determine the gender of a grave\u2019s occupant based on the artifacts buried within; jewelry meant a woman, weapons meant a man. When skeletons are actually sexed (an imprecise process, often, but better than guesswork based on accessories), there turns out to be a small but existent number of women interred with weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, some archaeologists\u2014I\u2019m willing to bet male archaeologists\u2014are quick to caution that just because a woman was buried with weapons doesn\u2019t mean she wielded them. Arms and armor in a man\u2019s grave are martial, but in a woman\u2019s grave, they\u2019re symbolic. When the body of an Etruscan prince was unearthed in Italy in 2013, he was initially assumed to be a great warrior because his skeleton held a lance. The incinerated corpse on a smaller platform was thought to be his wife. Once it was determined that the prince was actually a princess, though, the lance magically became a metaphor for marriage according to a (male) researcher: \u201cThe lance, in all probability, was put there as a symbol of the union between the deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lance could have been a symbol of power. It could even have been a symbol of war, the way it would be in the hand of a real-life Furiosa: an Amazon, for instance, or Boudica, the British queen who led a revolt against occupying Roman forces in around 60 A.D. But no, that\u2019s not what women do; that\u2019s not what women have. An unidentified skeleton with a weapon is a man; an unidentified woman with a weapon does not really have a weapon but rather, a very long, sharp wedding ring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Zimmerman: There have probably been more real-life woman warriors than we know. Until recently, archaeologists would determine the gender of a grave\u2019s occupant based on the artifacts buried within; jewelry meant a woman, weapons meant a man. When skeletons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20710,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}