JayTwo [any] to the_dunk_tank • 10 months agoI am not exaggerating when I say this is likely the hottest take ever in the entire history of human civilizationimagemessage-square85 fedilinkarrow-up1210file-text
arrow-up1210imageI am not exaggerating when I say this is likely the hottest take ever in the entire history of human civilizationJayTwo [any] to the_dunk_tank • 10 months agomessage-square85 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]hexbear30·10 months 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. link
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]hexbear18·edit-210 months 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 link
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]hexbear13·10 months 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) link
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)