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I like tall women as much as the next guy but Amazons co star in the Greek myths with centaurs and shit because they're a kind of psycho sexual projection of Ancient Greek misogyny and an extrapolation of tales of encounters with the less sexually segregated nomadic peoples to their north and not a literal thing that existed.
Yeah, ancient Greek accounts of groups like the Scythians are wild, it's all like "They're horrible savage barbarians, doing savage, animalistic things like eating raw meat and not oppressing their women."
Didn’t they invent that nonsense about Scythian women cutting off their breasts to shoot a bow? And nobody would do that ever?
Yeah, I think so. It's complete nonsense. I have a friend who is rather busty, and she also does archery as a hobby, it's a weird nonsensical claim just made to other them. But it pushes a common idea that the Greeks and Romans had about other societies, that they must do something horribly wrong to their women, to justify their own cruelties.
What’s incredible is we have found war weapons and stuff among the grave goods of women, so we do have hard evidence that some warrior women of the steppes did exist.
Which also probably added to their tales. Can’t have “your” woman getting the idea of picking up a bow and solving her problems on her terms. Emulating those “other, dangerous women.”