Female Peasant
Female Peasant
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Tbh milkmaids were the prettiest women because they would get mild cases of cowpox instead of skin wrecking smallpox and it was the origin of the smallpox vaccine (vacca means cow in latin).
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And they had to be clean, so washed daily, and were always inside, in a very clean environment.
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You are a milkmaid?
Edit: My joke was based on a corrected typo, "we're". IDGAF about online typos unless they have a humorous aspect. Cheers!
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Huh I didnât know humans could get mild cowpox
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A great many pathogens can be "weakened" with various processes, heat is one, but also the surviving strains in a living being that beat the disease via immunity may also carry weakened strains and this is where we learned to deliberately contract smallpox via poking someone's skin pustule and poking ourselves with that pus.
Gross but highly effective. This is how George Washington inoculated his army. (Which of course he learned about through a Reverend in Boston who learned about it from his slave, Onesimus, which makes sense as smallpox was ravaging Africa for over 10,000 years, they figured it out eventually.)
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Yes, itâs super interesting. The reason the word âvaccineâ derives from the Latin âvaccaâ (cow) was because we observed that people who contracted the cowpox gained some protection from smallpox. We investigated that connection, did a bunch of testing and research (which included early scientists infecting themselves on purpose in some rather gross ways), and developed the theory of vaccines.
The history of early modern medicine is very cool.
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Same, I get it a couple of times a year, and it's only ever extremely severe. I would love to know the secret.
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they're both drunk, though. so that's more than normal.
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Alcohol would be considerably safer to drink than most water you could find
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And it was way tamer than what we commonly drink now.
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This is largely a myth. It would only apply to large cities, and then, the fresh water sources were frequently protected by law in cities.
Alcohol itself doesn't actually destroy the pathogens in question- booze was made by microbes, after all, and as for bacterial... only beer and liquors was boiled, and simply adding it to already-contaminated water wouldn't make it safer; since that only happens at much higher concentrations of alchohol than you'd find, even in liquors. It does inhibit bacterial growth, though, usually people were mixing booze into water to make things taste better. (Similar to how modern restaurants will frequently add lemon slices to cover the taste of tap water.)
in terms of maintaining hydration, alcohol- even weak alcohols- are very much not good for that, even 3% alcohols, particularly in high-heat or under activity.
Boiling water was discussed in Roman and Greek writings well before the medieval period, as well- mostly in the context of making it not taste funky; and usually they were talking about filtering it to remove contaminants (for example, near mining operations.)
Again, streams rivers flowing were generally safe for consumption and would only become unsafe as a result from urban pollution, of which, there were controls in place to protect at least some water ways and wells.
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Do medieval shows only hire conventionally unattractive men? I always thought the convention was to have attractive people play important parts or "good" characters, regardless of gender, but admittedly I don't really watch many medieval shows.
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Attractive evil villain enters scene
"...they're gonna get a tragic backstory and sacrifice themselves for some noble cause."
3 seasons later
"Oh goddamit." -
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By "important or 'good' characters" I wasn't trying to say "protagonists and morally good characters", though there are certainly plenty of authors and directors who follow that rule.
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When your entire idea of middle ages comes from people funking around marginalia creatures this is what happens. But the middle ages were an early-capitalistic moment with more dynamism than you're told. Even under feudalism people must have had personal interocurses, private and economical. Imagine the scams of the time.
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Yep just look at the guilds. The Hansa (Hanseatic Trade League) owned several cities and harbours in the Baltic and North sea.
In Frankfurt, an inventor developed an early form of steam engine, but was bullied and denied by the boatsmakers guild.
Many interesting stories who are more than just peasants rolling in filth.
And even the city republics would destroy the primitive view of Hollywood on the freedoms of the medieval person. Not to speak of the Dithmarschen peasant republic or the swiss confederation and their wars of independence against the HR Emperor.
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This is what bothered me slightly in the Witcher games.
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What's wrong with their noses?
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They're all drunk
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That's just the comic artist's style.
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I see. I find it distracting.
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Allergies.
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aminal crossing
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orang
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This is a trope in all middle ages media I've seen. I've been watching someone play KCD2, and it's not as bad... but still there and jarring.
The only place where I can think of where it seems more fair is, ironically, some animation? Barring anime's sexism... problems, there's less incentive for that, heh. I liked Avatar's peasants:
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Help! Help! We're being repressed!
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But that's because Avatar was good and stuff! I like the peasants though. They all seem at like the same level of dress and stuff! Look at that (Earth Kingdom?) people in the first picture! That's real nice!
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It's Bolin/Mako's Lower Ring family! And, clockwise, Jang Hui fishing folks and Republic City homeless.
Folks like this (along with some notably badass women) are the bread and butter of the shows, though. I don't ever remember hitching to think 'huh that farmer lady looks like a skimpy model'
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i donât get it
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The comic highlights the differences in the portrayal of women and men in media, often oversexualizing women in any number of contexts.
A medieval maid milking the cows would probably not have looked (or smelled) like a supermodel.
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my peasant wife may not have regular access to soap but shes still the most beautiful piece of property i own
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Nor perfectly shaved armpits. That's definitely a target here
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tbf humans are the most intensively bred species on earth
i mean, humans have selected favorable animals in their livestock since the beginning of domestication, but the same applies to humans as well. it's very probable that humans have selected for hot-looking women since the very beginning of humanity. it's only logical to assume that we're seeing the results today, i.e. hot-looking women in general
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Female character during a time where only royals could afford cleanliness and health: is fit, healthy, and conventionally attractive
Male character during the same time: fuckin filthy, feeble, and gross
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Because people watch TV for the realism (well some do but most don't).
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Exactly, let us look at some hot farmer dudes working a sweat
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The problem is not the realism or lack thereof. It's the discrepancy between sexes and their portrayal. If it were equally unrealistic, it would be less jarring.
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Milkmaids famously shaved their armpits after lathering them with double cream.