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I have a cat. It is him, or the neighbour banging on my wall.
Latinas be like: *scoffs* “You’re such a little bitch. I’ll do it myself.”
There’s a story about a raid by viking in a Scandinavian village where the mens of that village having hard time repelling the raiders, a woman then grabbed a sword, run outside, and slap her chest, which scared away the raiders.
I can’t remember where i heard that from and not sure if that’s true, but i want to believe.
You may be thinking of Freydís Eiríksdóttir and her (alleged) experience in Vinland.
As men fled during the confusion, Freydís, who was eight months pregnant, admonished them, saying: “Why run you away from such worthless creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems to me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle? Let me but have a weapon, I know I could fight better than any of you.”
Ignored, Freydís picked up the sword of the fallen Thorbrand Snorrisson and engaged the attacking natives. Surrounded by enemies, she undid her garment and beat the sword upon her breast.
Ohh yes this. She’s my hero. Not the colonising part though.
I guarantee something similar happened at some point in history.
Bluffing is one of the oldest defense strategies in the universe, and predators are often confused enough into retreat if prey does it.
Look at cats and dogs. Cats hiss and swat and the dog runs off.
If a raider encountered a target where even the women acted as though they were trained and ready for a fight, that raid is possibly twice as dangerous for them as the next village over, so they’d likely just move on.
This is just anecdata, but something that I find really funny is that of all the lesbian couples in which there appears to be a butch and a femme, people seem to expect that the more “masculine” of the two will be the one to dispatch spiders and other scary critters, but it always seems to be the more feminine one.
This is a sample size of 6 couples, so it’s obviously not representative, but I find it funny nonetheless
And they expect you to investigate while they cling like a crawdad to your shirt and arm, so you have no chance of defending yourself or them.
The word “crawdad” will always remind me of this comic
