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Chan790

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1. On a semi-related note...
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 09:47 PM
Feb 2012

the derogatory slang word for female genitalia "pud" is short for pudendum, Latin for "thing of shame" and can be traced to Greek antecedents found in texts going back 1500+ years BCE, showing that misogyny is at-least 3500 years old and pre-dates the shift in Greco-Roman religion from Gaean (feminine, Earth-mother centric) to Jovian (masculine, patriarchal Olympian sky-cult).

Now you've learned something today. Men have been dicks for millennia and yet, women still put up with us. I was shocked too.


This is the Snake Handler of Minoan Crete, a conceptualization of the Earth-mother and precursor to Gaea.

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