The original Japanese show has a lot of intentionally absurd and funny plots and moments. Not a lot of shows have musical numbers where the villain sings about smashing the Earth with a choir from her minions.

I can’t access the full text, but I’d really like to know more about the dating methods and why they chose to date the soil and not the bones themselves. Dating the bones should be more reliable, but maybe the samples were not good enough for that

I really appreciate the time and effort, and, of course, don’t be sorry, you have given me several books and authors that I didn’t know and they seem like fantastic readings.

I know tales mostly from the South of Europe (I’m Spanish, so that’s what is easier for me to find books about...and where the tales that my grandmother, mother and other family told to me were from) and a bit from here and there from other european countries, specially the celtic and celtic-influenced cultures of…

Thank you. They sound really interesting. And they are public domain! This one?:

I really love traditional tales, but I never liked Perrault. The traditional tales that I know are beautifully varied, with peasants, musicians, witches, soldiers, saints and knights as protagonists and not just kings and beautiful princess. And with a lot of more interesting female characters, too and they are less…

Like this? (From here)

But it doesn’t have the same tone of the films. Anybody who has seen the films and want to see a fun adventure with heroes willing to risks their lives for what is right can be more that a bit disappointed by a fascist Captain America and a bunch of other jerks, including somebody that tries to kill his wife.

I’m Spanish and it’s not the same here, but in my high-school, Medieval Literature was part of the curriculum, including satirical Gallician poems. That means that we analyzed poems about prostitution, the sexual debauchery of priests and nuns, sexual toys made of a donkey member... (as a matter of fact, the teacher…

About that, you have examples like the Night Witches, of course, or the WASPs (although the WASPs were not trained in combat), the snipers or female tank drivers in the Soviet army, or milicianas in the Spanish Civil War. And, of course, there were women supporting the soldiers unofficially, like the Lotta Svärd or…

Not really. I have said something about that to other person here, but there have been women fighters all through history. Even some Roman texts have complaints about how some barbarians let their women fight besides them.

Women don’t disappear during wars. And every country and period have seen women combatants, women helping as spies, women revolutionaries...

I find funny that cheerleading started as an all-male activity.

Very interesting, thank you.

Yes, they do. Most of the information from archeological sites doesn’t come from a nice piece that you can put on a display, it comes from analyzing the sites as a whole: what is there? where are the pieces? What kind? How many? Sometimes, the bulk of information doesn’t come from the most valuable pieces, but from…

It has changed children from a blessing to a commodity making it very hard to consider ourselves to be a civilized respectful rational society.

It reminds me of an article I read about harassment to women in the world of comic book publishing and how women used to alert each other about which men in the industry should be avoided, because if they reported them, they (the women) would be ignored at best and would lose their job in the worst case. You can’t…

Well, I can see how that statement about that (very dead and very hated) dictator can make some people smile a bit. Was it in the North West?

Sometimes even the crowds in the background in films are male by default:

Even more hilarious, the argument about how “historically, most people with interesting jobs have been men” was in a discussion about the protagonists in books for children. There are books with blue aliens, witches or detective cats as protagonists, but apparently, historical realism is an important concern for…