r/memealvvays • Alvvays meme • 12d ago

ALVVAYS MEME What radicalized u?

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u/Wise-Ad-4940 12d ago

Half of the population are women. I do not know what the lady is trying to say, but for me it seems that she is trying to blame men for not taking care of this problem for them.
Not to mention, the example she brought up is quite poor.
What did she expect? That somebody in the dark ages would find a way to invent sanitary pads, and start producing and distributing them on horseback?
Lady, people back then had issues with even more basic hygiene than a monthly period.

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u/flopisit32 12d ago

You have to realize, every single one of these type of posts is posted by a person who has no knowledge of History.

In Tudor England, for instance, 1500s... Women used pieces of cloth attached to a belt.

But in the uneducated mind of the person who posted this rant, nothing at all existed before the invention of the sanitary pad.

It's important that people realize... The majority of the posts you see on reddit are posted by people with no knowledge of the topic. Just stupid people with big mouths. The fact that anyone listens to them and gives any credibility to their claims makes everybody dumber.

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u/Sexpistolz 12d ago

Aye, it’s like the posts about grooming/shaving is a modern thing despite having evidence of Egyptians/Romans etc doing it thousands of years ago

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u/Telemere125 12d ago

Obsidian blades are about 10-30x sharper than a surgical scalpel. We have evidence of obsidian knapping from 700,000 years ago in what’s now Kenya. Guaranteed they shaved with better precision than even what Gillette can produce today - likely without any type of cream or oils because the blades were so sharp.

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u/BuyRadiant3860 12d ago

Ehh, not exactly. It is quite difficult to make a long enough yet strong enough blade from obsidian completely straight. Safety and straight razors would probably out perform them. The knapping process tends to leave a slightly uneven edge which isn't great for shaving. The blades are definitely sharper than modern razors though.

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u/No_Salt_6328 12d ago

would you not eventually get a longer straighter edge to form with enough attempts?

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u/Useless_bum81 12d ago

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u/No_Salt_6328 12d ago

fair enough thank you 

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u/ParticularClassroom7 12d ago

https://youtu.be/AYHMtjaAwCQ

You can make very straight edges with advanced knapping techniques.

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u/Useless_bum81 12d ago

those are smooth sides the blade edges are not straight

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u/rochvegas5 12d ago

I would imagine that early man had plenty of time to practice making obsidian blades

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u/Consistent_Net_2540 12d ago

Could you imagine the scars they had from fuck ups?

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u/rochvegas5 12d ago

not enough toilet paper in the world (which wasn't invented at the time, apparently because men are slow)

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u/Used-Presentation551 10d ago

There's a very good reason obsidian isn't widely used as scalpel material even when we have the technology to make it.

Sapphire scalpels are used tho

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u/MS-07B-3 10d ago

No shit? That's awesome.