Sigmund Freud loved to collect them and built theories on their meaning. In the 1960s, researchers claimed the more rotund figures were of a mysterious large breasted and big bellied "mother goddess", prompting the feminist theory that thrives today. But those ancient figurines were toys not mother goddess statues, say experts as 9,000-year-old artefacts are discovered. Nearly 2,000 figures have been unearthed at Catalhoyuk in Turkey - the world's oldest known town - over the last few decades. Made by Neolithic farmers thousands of years before the creation of the pyramids or Stonehenge, they depict tiny cattle, crude sheep and flabby people. These toys are found in the trash and not in goddess niches. What disappointment. Nothing is romantic or mysterious anymore.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Fertility Goddess Bullshit
Sigmund Freud loved to collect them and built theories on their meaning. In the 1960s, researchers claimed the more rotund figures were of a mysterious large breasted and big bellied "mother goddess", prompting the feminist theory that thrives today. But those ancient figurines were toys not mother goddess statues, say experts as 9,000-year-old artefacts are discovered. Nearly 2,000 figures have been unearthed at Catalhoyuk in Turkey - the world's oldest known town - over the last few decades. Made by Neolithic farmers thousands of years before the creation of the pyramids or Stonehenge, they depict tiny cattle, crude sheep and flabby people. These toys are found in the trash and not in goddess niches. What disappointment. Nothing is romantic or mysterious anymore.
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Fertility 'goddess' figurines seem to be more in the nature of prayerful offerings to conceive children. Through sympathetic magic a supplicant hopes to get a child; rather like the offerings made at pilgrimage sites. Offer a small knee figurine to get relief from joint pain, or something similar. Neolithic man was at the mercy of the elements and wild animals. To carry a humungous wife around have been a liabilty in the struggle for existence.
Ivan is right. The human figures are obviously pregnant women, or fertile women at the very least. Our suicidal culture, by contrast, celebrates emaciated "women" who look like adolescent boys, and who are likely incapable of conceiving a child and nourishing a pregnancy.
Anon.
Anon.
And our cultures fashion runways are filled with ugly dresses worn by stick thin because so much of the fashion industry is run by queer men attracted to adolescent boys, which proves that at some level all gay men are potential members of NAMBLA.
Anon, a few weeks ago I was stocking freight at night and I was suddenly struck by the conviction that you are really one-quarter Lithuanian Jewish. The farther I get from that night the more preposterous my little "insight" seems but for some reason it seemed to make perfect sense at the time.
Sadly enough, I've been on that aisle for a year or two now and I can't seem to remember the brand of pickles I was stocking, but I do remember clearly being struck by the idea that you are somehow a part jewish anglo-seffrican.
Why this seemed so true to me I don't know. The only other alternative I could think of is that you might simply be a full blooded Boer.
Whatever.
Runway models do tend to be walking coat-hangers ... I assumed that was a practical convenience for the tailors, but I like the adolescent-boy theory.
In any event I think you (Anon. and Ronduck) are drawing way too broad a conclusion. Watch some porno films if you have doubts about what straight American men actually prefer. It will suggest many neuroses, but twigophilia isn't one of them.
Ronduck,
Do you really stock shelves for a living?
Why?
(I read somewhere that rude prying isn't rude on the Internet. And I'm legitimately curious.)
-Diego
The stick-thin theory is correct but only applies to males who are not interested (biologically) in procreation. I have believed this for a long time. Ordinary men, by contrast, are hard-wired to appreciate curvaceous women; hence the porno-type women and Playboy phenotypes, neither of whom are the cat-walk models.
But the Fashion Industry, which speaks to all women and young girls like a Voice from the Heavens, projects this grotesquely thin and unhealthy body image; we are the only culture to do this, all others (including blacks, according to Newsweek) prefer women to have some body fat. There are almost zero black anorectics, for example. It is rising in the West, by contrast, and the female explosion in smoking (which keeps people thin),and lung cancer is another manifestation.
But these emaciated and ill-looking fashion models are a sure manifestation of the Western Death Industry.
And , by the way, I am a full-blooded Anglo Saxon colonial. But I have interacted very beneficially with Jews in many capacities: professional, academic, financial, business, intellectual and cultural and I appreciate their contribution and think I understand a little something of their lives and concerns.
Anon.
It's quite possible that the fashion industry is more pernicious than I realize. I'm single and I grew up with only brothers, so I'm only vaguely aware of the industry's existence. Maybe if someone in my life had struggled with anorexia, I'd feel differently.
The fact is, there are far more women in America who are too fat than too thin. Even if every fashion model were replaced with a Victoria's Secret model tomorrow, there would still be millions of women trying in vain to reach that "impossible" ideal.
I'd also point out that whatever their sexual merits, too-tall-and-too-thin women are visually striking. I was in a large lecture with this now-professional model in college, and she really did stand out, somehow. So I'd imagine they make pretty good easels, from an artistic perspective.
I do not dispute obesity is a major health problem in the western world. This of course includes both women and men.
But that should not be used to hide the fact that there are also women who are too thin for their own health, and who are too thin to be fertile. It is well known that the Body Mass Index (obtained by dividing the mass in kg by the height in metres, squared) should lie between 19 and 25. Below about 18, and a woman's menstrual cycle will shut down because there are too few available calories to ensure the adequate growth of a baby.
There is no way that most of those models on the cat-walk have a BMI in the healthy range; they are all far too thin. And the subterranean message is not only this: "I can't have a baby", but also "All you young women should look like me".
So tall thin females may be striking, but they really represent a strike against our future, in the message they are pushing. Because the purpose of beauty is reproduction (see Darwin on 'sexual selection'), and not self-gratification; and particularly not self-gratification by the men who run the Fashion Industry.
Anon.
Yes, I do stock shelves for a living. I originally started at my employer as a bagger thinking it would be a summer job, and that was nine years ago. Prior to my job I was a mediocre student, and after HS I did a little college. I've thought about attending college for a degree, and so far I haven't done so. Right now I have my mother and brother living with me, and since I earn more than the average retail clerk I can afford to support my brother while he finishes HS. My mother works part time and contributes partly by paying for the internet access I'm using now. I don't know what I'll do once my brother graduates HS.
Why are you interested about my job?
Anon, I would like to amplify on what you are saying and point out that the only Whites who are truly welcome in the leftist coalition are queer.
Here in AZ the Democrats are in the minority in the state legislature, and they picked a lesbian as the assistant house Democratic leader.
Ronduck,
I am interested for the obvious reason: it is curious to hear of someone of your intelligence working a menial job. Considering the desperate shortage of competent people in this world (in every field I have worked in, at least) it seems like a bit of a tragedy.
Given your political views, I was wondering if it was partially an "Atlas Shrugged" sort of thing.
Anyway, best of luck.
-Diego
The only people we have to blame for these sickeningly thin runway models are gay urban Jewish males who are fashion designers and their co-ethnics in the advertising and publishing industries. Jews run ALL of those fields.
Actually it is a very diffuse problem throughout the West, and I think it is not confined to one ethnic group.
Anon.
I can second Diego: everywhere I found a desperate need for competent workers and employers were ready to pay almost anything to get them and keep them. I presume the same is true in supermarkets, and a good and reliable stocker gets well paid. Not connected, but at my first job in Latinoconsult (a FIAT outfit in Argentina) the boss's secretary was paid more than any engineer. She was irreplaceable.
But was his wife irreplaceable?
Anon.
everywhere I found a desperate need for competent workers and employers were ready to pay almost anything to get them and keep them.
The world doesn't lack in smart people to run things. The problem we have is that even the smart people at the top are willfully denying reality, despite what their intelligence is telling them.
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