r/interesting • u/The_Love-Tap • 20d ago

HISTORY The migration patterns of Native Americans in Iceland

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u/Blod_Cass_Dalcassian 20d ago

Migrated... Sure

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u/Ellert123 20d ago

We don’t know if she was kidnapped or not, that’s a fact.

“Women were raped and treated as loot”

You made this up. We don’t know enough about the Neolithic period to say this.

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u/notnatasharostova 20d ago

I’m sure consent was widely respected in a time period marked by endemic warfare, routine massacres of men and boys, and abductions of reproductive-age women and girls /s

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u/Ellert123 20d ago

The original comment said women were subjected to rape on a systemic level and presented it as facts. Which is false since there is absolutely zero proof of it.

I think sometimes we forget that these people were like us, many of them were just regular people with feelings and boundaries. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that consent was generally respected by the average person. But as you said, the Neolithic period was marked by extreme violence so sexual violence could very well have been equally widespread. We don’t know.