I must shiver when you're warm
May. 23rd, 2013 08:04 amIf you're reading this, then you should go straight over to Kameron Hurley's article on women in fiction "We Have Always Fought." Go ahead. It's over here at A Dribble of Ink.
Come back when you finished. I'll leave the door open.
Now as you would expect from the title, the the article's about women in history and cannibalistic llamas and it's got art by Jason Chan,
And it's true.
Now I can't vouch for the historical sources Hurley cites, but I can tell you that most of the people I work with with in the veterinary field are women, and the percentage is getting ever larger. I see women dealing with bloods and stress and shouting, swearing people; women with a scalpel in their hand, women spending hours in a freezing, shit-covered stable with their hand inside a cow at four in the morning; women who are mothers and daughters and sisters and just all around fucking amazing people.
It's a fact that most men are physically stronger than most women but physical strength is only PART of fighting, and it's not themost important part.
We have always, always fought.