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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Best case, this is an absurd warning about hunting large animals on one's own. The humour would be that this woman, rather than killing the mammoth, is about to get stomped. Or a at the very least, a terse "Do you mind?"

Worst case, this is intended as "Strong independent (cave)woman don't need no (cave)man.", and in acting without said man, she has proven said maxim wrong.

I'd like to think there's enough wrong with that thinking that even the most ardent misogynist ought to find a step too far (people hunt in groups, so she would have taken friends along, surely?), so I expect the intended humour is closer to the former than the latter.

The choice of a female protagonist is an interesting one though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It must have been "Do you mind?". And absurdness of hunting alone. Also i see nothing interesting on choice of female protagonist. Contrary to popular myth, women hunted together with men (based on evidence of broken legs) and had no strongly separate roles (like women being gatherers and men hunters).

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

That's how I interpreted it.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That makes sense!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was “Woman being a pain in the ass since the dawn of man.”

[–] HollandJim 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wasn’t funny the first time either. Welcome to my blocklist.

Edit: looked at their post history. Not a moment too soon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

👍, I really don’t care about your opinion.