JayTwo [any]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agoI am not exaggerating when I say this is likely the hottest take ever in the entire history of human civilizationhexbear.netimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1210arrow-down1imageI am not exaggerating when I say this is likely the hottest take ever in the entire history of human civilizationhexbear.netJayTwo [any]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 years agoGermany, Britain, France, and the US have all represented themselves as women at one point so maybe there is some link between personifying a country as a woman and being a murderous imperialist.
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-22 years agothe romans were the ones who started portraying Britainia as a woman while it was a colony I thought the Germans portrayed their country as a man
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoYeah but the Brits definitely ran with Britannia as a woman for many centuries after the Romans so I think it still counts. As for Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(personification)
Germany, Britain, France, and the US have all represented themselves as women at one point so maybe there is some link between personifying a country as a woman and being a murderous imperialist.
the romans were the ones who started portraying Britainia as a woman while it was a colony
I thought the Germans portrayed their country as a man
Yeah but the Brits definitely ran with Britannia as a woman for many centuries after the Romans so I think it still counts.
As for Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(personification)