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Thread #54414   Message #843592
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
08-Dec-02 - 09:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Weave and Mend (Trup/Cameron)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: weave and spin
Men didn't weave and spin? This isn't true of historic times or in the pre-historic--there are too many variations on these tasks throughout the world, let alone in North America with all of the cultures here that would indicate otherwise. This is a fallacy, just as is the idea that only men hunted and women took care of the hunting and gathering in ancient cultures. Women did a lot of hunting of smaller game, and it's pretty clear they were active participants in some of the big game hunting as well (for the charismatic things like mammoth, bison, etc.)

Think again about what he's being told--what possible contexts exist to explain the song? Are his skills as a weaver too valuable to let him choose to do something else? Is it a put-down, that all he can do is weave and spin? Don't decide it can't be true based on the idea that Real Men don't weave.

SRS