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So, I am all membered up with the local Archaeological Society. Today I joined an excursion to an Iron Age hill fort and a 14th century castle. The guide was fantastic. He knew his stuff, and he loved his stuff. There is nothing better in a guide. Sadly, there is only one more excursion this summer and it is fully booked, but they do have lectures through the winter, which look really interesting. (Including one about the Salisbury Plain Military Training Area, which is interesting in itself, but apparently there will be an excursion there next year. The general public aren't allowed there, on account of the army making things go boom, so I'm quite excited about that one!)
On Monday I start their Dig course. People keep asking me if I'm going to be an archaeologist, and I keep saying no. I am, however, beginning to wonder whether I could find a career in it. Probably not as anything that requires an actual qualification, but... Well, it can't hurt to start putting out some feelers, can it?
Bath Uni does lectures on Wednesday afternoons, but none of them look particularly exciting. Maybe I should sign up for that Italian course at the college.
I shall leave you with this awesome vid of chicks being kick-arse. Oh man, Cut-Throat Island. Good times, lol.
Title: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Vidder:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
damned_colonial, aka Skud
Fandom: Age of Sail multi-fandom (see notes below)
Notes:
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists—I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them, that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", 1792
On Monday I start their Dig course. People keep asking me if I'm going to be an archaeologist, and I keep saying no. I am, however, beginning to wonder whether I could find a career in it. Probably not as anything that requires an actual qualification, but... Well, it can't hurt to start putting out some feelers, can it?
Bath Uni does lectures on Wednesday afternoons, but none of them look particularly exciting. Maybe I should sign up for that Italian course at the college.
I shall leave you with this awesome vid of chicks being kick-arse. Oh man, Cut-Throat Island. Good times, lol.
Title: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Vidder:
damned_colonial, aka SkudFandom: Age of Sail multi-fandom (see notes below)
Notes:
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists—I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them, that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", 1792