[Ansteorra] Point to ponder...

[Brandon McDermott]

On the funny side..... I have seen it before and laughed. I read it today and laughed. I understand not all humor is based in factual events, but more oft than not slightly to somewhere near grossly exaggerated realism... 
 
On the serious side..... I read an article on the modern sensibilities and how it has affected sexism. It stipulated that sexism directed towards men (our vulgarity, stupidity, inability to ask for directions, etc...) is far more acceptable than sexism directed at women. The article sited many modern sitcoms are the proof of that, wherein the mother or wife was the antagonist portrayed as the dominant figure harassing and/or belittling the father or husband. (Everyone Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc..)
 
 
@ Master Robin....Tournament Burgonets from the early 16th c. are the earliest I can think of. The type you see in the mantling of many late period arms. With the vine like twisted bars. Those were for sport not war.
 
 
@ all I truly believe there to have been no malice in the post.... Right or wrong, the joke was far less offensive in my opinion than a good deal of the locker room humor fighters regularly hurl at one another. 
 
 
Gramercy,
 
Lochlan

--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Jay Rudin <rudin at peoplepc.com> wrote:


From: Jay Rudin <rudin at peoplepc.com>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Point to ponder...
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 10:56 AM


>The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first 
>helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize 
>that their brain is also important....

Hockey players, maybe.

The first helmets that I know of are Bronze Age, and over 3,000 years old.  The first sport helmets that I can think of offhand are seventeenth century fencing masks.

Robin of Giwell / Jay Rudin

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