Cultural revision- the feminist and the great AfAm Inventor
So, okay two things have been sticking in my head lately.
The first is based off the fact that I have, and always have had, feminist friends. I don't know why. I think a lot of their ideas amount to reverse sexism but I do enjoy the company of feminists and so there you are. The thing is though I am constantly confronted that the world has always been run based on male dominance since the dawn of civilization up until...oh...let's say 1965 for fun. I mean, that's how it's presented.
But that got me thinking. If that were true, why are there goddesses in ancient Greece and Rome and in most other cultures as well? I mean, if there has always been the assumption that women are less powerful in some very essential human way, then isn't it a big shot to the pride to assume that some women are goddesses?
Next point, peanut butter. I had heard that peanut butter was invented by George Washington Carver. Remember those commercials they'd pull out of the vault once in a while to let us know the important things that African Americans had done for society, and it's always this guy and peanut butter. Question, if G.W.C. invented peanut butter, then how do you explain Thai cooking. You make peanut sauce with peanut butter. Does this mean that Thai cooking doesn't predate late 19th century. I'm not saying that it does, I'm just saying that something seems odd about that.
The first is based off the fact that I have, and always have had, feminist friends. I don't know why. I think a lot of their ideas amount to reverse sexism but I do enjoy the company of feminists and so there you are. The thing is though I am constantly confronted that the world has always been run based on male dominance since the dawn of civilization up until...oh...let's say 1965 for fun. I mean, that's how it's presented.
But that got me thinking. If that were true, why are there goddesses in ancient Greece and Rome and in most other cultures as well? I mean, if there has always been the assumption that women are less powerful in some very essential human way, then isn't it a big shot to the pride to assume that some women are goddesses?
Next point, peanut butter. I had heard that peanut butter was invented by George Washington Carver. Remember those commercials they'd pull out of the vault once in a while to let us know the important things that African Americans had done for society, and it's always this guy and peanut butter. Question, if G.W.C. invented peanut butter, then how do you explain Thai cooking. You make peanut sauce with peanut butter. Does this mean that Thai cooking doesn't predate late 19th century. I'm not saying that it does, I'm just saying that something seems odd about that.
posted by Monstro D. Whale | 12:41 PM
3 Comments:
Ironically I was thinking about the same thing concerning peanut butter and Thai peanut sauce within the past month. Peanut satay sauce has most likely been around for thousands of years in some form or another. Peanut butter, as such, may have been simply considered a useless preproduct until the peanut butter and jelly sandwich was born.
No, I think you've asked one of those "forbidden" questions. It's like asking how the world could be millions of years old when a literal reading of the bible makes it just 4 or 5 thousand years old. I think you should delete this post immediately and try to forget you ever thought of this. Something bad could happen. Maybe an implosion, or even the negation of all creation.
I call this "American Logic": say shit that is patently false for political reasons and then when someone mentions the fifty or so facts that prove you wrong, accuse them of some sort of prejudice to shut them up.
You are, of course, right. I am speaking backwards the words of creation, undoing all the world--or at least that part of it that's created by the American myth.
BTW, how racist is it that every other ethnicities scientist makes something worth while but the AfAm scientist is credited only with the creation of peanut butter. That sucks.
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