Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023.
A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered plant products for food. However, mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging this paradigm; for instance, women in many societies have been found buried alongside big-game hunting tools.
Some researchers have suggested that womenâs role as hunters was confined to the past, with more recent foraging societies following the paradigm of men as hunters and women as gatherers. To investigate that possibility, Anderson and colleagues analyzed data from the past 100 years on 63 foraging societies around the world, including societies in North and South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Oceanic region.
They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentionalâas opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game.
The analysis also revealed that women are actively involved in teaching hunting practices and that they often employ a greater variety of weapon choice and hunting strategies than men. These findings suggest that, in many foraging societies, women are skilled hunters and play an instrumental role in the practice, adding to the evidence opposing long-held perceptions about gender roles in foraging societies. The authors note that these stereotypes have influenced previous archaeological studies, with, for instance, some researchers reluctant to interpret objects buried with women as hunting tools. They call for reevaluation of such evidence and caution against misapplying the idea of men as hunters and women as gatherers in future research.
The authors add, âEvidence from around the world shows that women participate in subsistence hunting in the majority of cultures.â
It does⌠one at a time.  Itâd be useful to be able to select more than one. G&T but not higher, M&E only, everything but E for those who just donât like smut. (btw I just checked and there is none of the exclusion filters showing on the search page at least in my computer)
AO3 does âandâ filters.
You donât filter for M&E. You filter for not the other stuff.
I have never seen so many users clearly baffled by and too skittish to push buttons/toggles that are very clearly meant to be used.
If a trusted website has a button and you donât immediately know or understand what it does, push it. Check out every drop down, every link, every configuration imaginable. Be adventurous. Fuck around and find out. If it breaks the website, they shouldnât have had that button in the first place. Not on you. Indulge your curiosity instead of complaining it doesnât do something it absolutely does if you poke around a little.
Youâre not going to get a bad grade in filtering by using interface features from AO3, I promise.
Look, there are library systems that donât have filters as good as AO3. You have to learn how to use Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) and construct a proper query to exclude in several academic databases, and AO3 just performs âNOTâ for you by clicking a button.
Do you know how many grad students would love to have the kind of power you have with AO3 in filters?
Ao3 filters are amazing. You can filter out ratings, you can filter out characters or pairings, you can filter out specific tags (as long as itâs an official tag)! (Type it in under âother tags to excludeâ)
This is why the antis complaining about seeing content they donât like on Ao3 is so frustrating. If something squicks you out, filter it, and you never have to see it again! Voila! Or even if it is just something you donât like. I have High School AUs filtered out because I just donât like them! Itâs an amazing system and makes it so easy to curate your experience.
LOVE when it turns out an actor i got weirdly focused on as a twelve year old either a) is later revealed to be gay or b) is later revealed to be mixed like my senses are HONED they are SHARP my mind is POWERFUL
Costco’s pivot to checking the photo on membership cards is wild. I went in with a friend yesterday who is a member and I never, ever want to go back.
Treating paying customers like criminals because the big bad corporation is missing a few dollars from people sharing cards ain’t it.
They checked her card twice while we were in the store *and we didn’t even buy anything* because one item had to be bundled and we weren’t aware and they were out of the other.
Like I don’t like the Waltons, that’s for sure, but Sam’s doesn’t treat it’s customers like that and I’ve never left there without the stuff I went in for.
There was a news story about an employee harassing a woman whose photo “didn’t match her person” as-if the photos on the back of Costco cards are decent quality anyways jfc. When she asked them to check her ID against it, they refused and continued to humiliate and harass her.
Like damn dude, that ain’t it. Costco can get bent.
Years ago, my mother had surgery to remove her eye.
She needed groceries. I offered to go to Kroger, and she said no, go to Costco. I took her card, since I didn’t have one.
I got her groceries, got to the front….they looked at the photo, which at the time they absolutely never did. Lady said she couldn’t sell to me. I said “I’m sorry, it’s my mom’s card. She’s at home recovering from surgery and asked me for groceries.”
Lady said she’d call the manager to see if he could make an exception. Manager chewed me out in front of a long line of people, basically calling me a thief and saying he didn’t care about my mother’s surgery, she could come herself for groceries. I ended up crying and even someone else in the line told him to stop being an asshole.
I went back to my mother with no groceries, crying and apologizing. Keep in mind this woman had an eyeball-sized hole in her head. She had just had a vital organ removed. There was a wad of gauze on her eye socket the size of a golf ball, held in place with medical tape and an eyepatch. She was in incredible amounts of physical and emotional pain. But she demanded to go back to Costco with me. We got in, she demanded to speak to the manager who’d spoken to me. He walked out of his office and went pale when he saw her. You have to imagine a tiny verging-on-elderly woman who’s visibly frail, this gigantic medical patch on her face, and that awful pinched drawn look people get when their pain is off the charts. I guarantee he wasn’t frightened of her, exactly, he’d just realized what a giant fucking PR disaster he’d made for himself. He was looking at a very sick, very incapacitated woman with one eye and a cane, and he’d called me a liar for saying she was sick and incapacitated, and he knew it.
She walked up to him, handed him her Costco card, and said “you can take this. Since my daughter can’t shop for me six hours after I had surgery. Nina, let’s go.”
He basically forced me to take the card back, stammering apologies. I just let him see on my face exactly what I thought of him, and walked out.
I later got an apology from someone way up the food chain in management. Basically their consensus was “yeah, you shouldn’t be using your mom’s card as a regular thing, but the moment you said she’d just had major surgery they should’ve been like ‘yeah, no, understood, let’s get you checked out,’ and even if it was a more regular circumstance the language he used was just unacceptable.”
If they’re being that aggressive about checking cards, take it up the food chain. See what’s going on. We might need to get pissed at Costco or it could be local management being dicks.
yeah, being aggro about photo checks is ABSOLUTELY not Costco corporate policy. Some managers are going rogue.
One time a DM let me play a Venom inspired character where I played the host and my long distance girlfriend played the symbiotic alien. How we did this was set up a discord call where she could hear everything said at the table but I had one head phone in my ear and only I could hear what she was saying and if I wanted to respond I had to speak out loud.
