JayTwo [any] to the_dunk_tank • 1 year agoI am not exaggerating when I say this is likely the hottest take ever in the entire history of human civilizationimagemessage-square81 fedilinkarrow-up1210file-text
arrow-up1210imageI am not exaggerating when I say this is likely the hottest take ever in the entire history of human civilizationJayTwo [any] to the_dunk_tank • 1 year agomessage-square81 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]hexbear112·1 year agoI bet women love being compared to a genocidal ethnostate founded on stolen land. link
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]hexbear30·1 year agoGermany, Britain, France, and the US have all represented themselves as women at one point so maybe there is some link between personifying a country as a woman and being a murderous imperialist. link
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]hexbear18·edit-21 year agothe romans were the ones who started portraying Britainia as a woman while it was a colony I thought the Germans portrayed their country as a man link
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]hexbear13·1 year agoYeah but the Brits definitely ran with Britannia as a woman for many centuries after the Romans so I think it still counts. As for Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(personification) link
I bet women love being compared to a genocidal ethnostate founded on stolen land.
Germania is a slay kween
Germany, Britain, France, and the US have all represented themselves as women at one point so maybe there is some link between personifying a country as a woman and being a murderous imperialist.
the romans were the ones who started portraying Britainia as a woman while it was a colony
I thought the Germans portrayed their country as a man
Yeah but the Brits definitely ran with Britannia as a woman for many centuries after the Romans so I think it still counts.
As for Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(personification)