#Prehistoric Women

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The Devil Rides Out (1968) & Slave Girls (1967)

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Prehistoric Women (1967) dir. Michael Carreras

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Prehistoric Women publicity photos (1950)

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In a further blow to the Gimbutas hypothesis, the first archaeological traces of gender roles begins in the Neolithic:

It should be worth restating that humanity has been on Earth physically for at least 300,000 years. And that as the net is cast ever further it appears that with the appearance of our species in flesh so went changes in behavior, that there never was some sort of a 'sapience revolution' or the perennial efforts to recreate 'and God made mankind in his image, and gave to him the breath of life to make him unique among the beasts and with dominion over them' in a scientific guise. When gender roles began to appear starting in the last 7,000 years this is a tiny, tiny portion of the ultimate span of human existence, as is the history of civilization itself.

This should be put into context, and serve as context, for both the degree to which archaeology attests to the reality of violence and the beginning of the symbolic depictions of ideal worlds that differ from the reality. This is, and has always been, a reality of gender roles as they evolved and their expectations, with the ideologies of what was expected for women always being defined as inferior to what was expected of men. Equally the societies of the Neolithic were crude compared to later eras that had greater wealth to pour into ideological indoctrination and greater power to make it stick

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"I am queen here! I will NOT be denied!"

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Prehistoric Women (1967)

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On April 19, 1967 Prehistoric Women debuted in France.

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Vilken snabla blandning denna månad som präglas av att "the Fast and the Furious" flimmrade förbi på Viaplay och jag tänkte "tja, varför inte?"...

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) [🔁] Den första av uppföljarna på racing succén F&F, lyckades med konststycket att vara bättre än jag mindes den.

Atlantis: Milos återkomst / Atlantis Milo's Return (2003) [👎] De påvärmda resterna av tv-serien som aldrig blev av. Kändes både billig och plastig samt copypastad.

Djupet / Deep, the (1977) [_] Bygger på en bok av samma författare som skrev "Hajen", kul liten dykarfilm. Men jäkligt fånigt med karln (aka skattletarproffset) som envisas med att dyka i skjorta och chinos.

Fast & Furious (2009) [👍🔁] Filmen som fick hela francisen dra en suck av lättnad. Familjen är tillbaka.

Fast and the Furious, the (2001) [👍🔁] Originalet som är djupt rotat i street raing-scenen. Tåls att ses om.

Fast and the Furious, the: Tokyo Drift (2006) [🔁] Den av uppföljarna jag aldrig begripit varför den fick grönljus. Till Skillnad mot tvåan lyckades den här vara sämre än jag mindes den.

Modig / Brave (2012) [👍🔁] 📜 Se mitt omdöme här.

Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954) [📺] Svartvit "klassiker" av Roger Corman. Okej underhållning, kinte en av karlns sämsta alster.

Pied Piper of Hamelin, the (1957) [👍📺] Charmig liten fantasyfilm baserad på sagan med samma namn. Skojig och genomtänkt. Och man vänjer sig snabbt vid att alla talar på rim.

Tales of Robin Hood (1951) [📺] Budget version av Robin Hood, fick mig nästan att börja läsa Ivanhoe. Filmen bjuder dock inte på något nytt eller eget, utan mest sådant man sett i andra adaptioner.

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) [👍] Jane Foster är Thor. Bra rakt igenom, den här filmserien har verkligen lyft under Taika Waititis ledning.

Vilda kvinnor / Prehistoric Women (1950) [👎📺] Nä. Riktigt sunkig film som måste kvala in som en av de absolut första mockumentärerna.

Thor: Love and Thunder är avgjort värd en chans om man känner sig vågad -- annars så är Pied Piper of Hamelin värd en chans om man lyckas hitta den (på tuben).

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Happy Birthday Martine Beswicke!

Martine Beswicke (born 26 September 1941) is an English-Jamaican actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.

Beswicke is best known for her two appearances in the James Bond film series. Although she auditioned for the first Bond film Dr. No (1962), she was cast in the second film From Russia with Love (1963) as the fiery gypsy girl, Zora. She engaged in a "catfight" scene with her rival Vida (played by former Miss Israel Aliza Gur). Beswicke later stated that there was as much bad feeling with Gur offscreen as well as on, with the film's director, Terence Young, encouraging Beswicke to get rough with Gur.

"I was a very nice girl but Aliza was a cow. We had terrible clashes and I was disgusted with her. I had a lot of anger inside of me so that [fight] scene was a perfect way to work it out. We rehearsed the fight for three weeks but when we shot it, Aliza was really fighting. Everyone encouraged me to fight back, so I did. We got into a real scrapping match." — Martine Beswicke[9]

Beswicke then appeared as the ill-fated Paula Caplan in Thunderball (1965). She had been away from the Caribbean so long that she was required to sunbathe constantly for two weeks before filming, to look like a local.

Beswicke went on to appear in One Million Years B.C. (1966) opposite Raquel Welch, with whom she also engaged in a catfight. She played Adelita in the well-regarded Spaghetti Western, A Bullet for the General (1966) opposite Klaus Kinski and Gian Maria Volonté and played a villainous role in the exploitation thriller The Penthouse (1967). She then appeared in various Hammer Films, most notably Prehistoric Women (1967) (aka Slave Girls) and the gender-bending horror Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), in which she played the titular villainess.

She had a supporting role in the Italian sex comedy The Last Italian Tango (1973). She then starred as the Queen of Evil in Oliver Stone's 1974 directorial debut Seizure. In the 1970s, Beswicke moved to Hollywood and regularly appeared on both the big and small screens. She made numerous guest appearances on television series, including Sledge Hammer!, Fantasy Island, The Fall Guy, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man and Falcon Crest. In 1980, she played the lead role in the comedy film The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.

Beswicke's career was active well into the 1990s. Since then, she has mainly participated in film documentaries, providing commentary and relating her experiences on the many films in which she has appeared. She owned a removals business in London, but is now semiretired except for her guest appearances at international film conventions.

After a 24 year absence from the screen, Beswicke came out of retirement in 2018 to appear in House of the Gorgon opposite fellow Hammer film actors Caroline Munro, Veronica Carlson, and Christopher Neame.

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During a "girls' night out" at some hot springs outside Bedrock

[Mise en scene: Essentially during the time frame of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, finding the titular characters as high schoolers and having a clique as includes the likes of Penny Pillar and Wiggy Moonstone. As the scene opens, we find Pebbles, Penny and Wiggy in what essentially amounts to "bonding" exercises prehistoric as involve having vaginal rubs in the shelters designed for overnight accomodation....] WIGGY MOONSTONE, lying atop Pebbles Flintstone in their common nakedness and rubbing each other vaginally: Ohhhhh my stars ... I can't help but find these exercises feeling so fantastic and oh so delightful! PEBBLES FLINTSTONE, chuckling at the sheer feel of Wiggy's vagina pressing against hers and rubbing as well: You can certainly say as much! [No wonder such an exercise in the prehistoric manner felt as wonderful as it did to build trust among fellow cavewomen, even when the pair rolled around and shifted positioning occasionally for the sake of comfort]

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Reimagining Prehistoric Women: New Study Challenges Traditional Gender Roles

A newly published study challenges the long-held belief that women in prehistoric times were limited to domestic tasks. Research suggests prehistoric women actively participated in hunting and were better equipped for physical activities. This groundbreaking research unveils the contributions of women in labor and sustenance throughout human history.

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youtube shorts is just tiktok without being on the app the amount of "i'm a [qualification] and [misinformation]" could make one turn their skin inside-out in protest. "i'm a board-certified OB-GYN & it's only been about the last hundred years that women have actually experienced menopause. We didn't live long enough to experience it" how can you be so incredibly wrong about something so integral to your practice. King of the Hittites Hattusilis III was told in 1250 BCE that his sister was too old to reproduce at age 50+. Aristotle wrote in the 4th century BCE that women stopped menstruating between ages 40 to 50, common menopause ages today still. i cannot begin to tell you how 4th century & 1250 BCE don't really count as "the last hundred years" unless that -s is doing a lot of heavy lifting. waiter waiter more misinformation laws.

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Ending today with a look via genetics at how one Neolithic community actually lived:

Ending today with a community in what would 3,000 years later become Transalpine Gaul to Rome. This, however, was 6,500 years ago and whether or not the community to which this applied were the distant ancestors of the future Gauls or not cannot truthfully be proven. Neither, given the relative simplicity of the community from which the study was done next to others around it, can it be said to be typical even of future Gaul, let alone the entirety of Europe, let alone the world. These tremendously significant caveats aside, what *is* shown is just as revealing and illustrates the further realities behind the evolving age of gender and the emergence of mass violence on a systemic, as opposed to sporadic, scale.

Because what the reality shows is revealing on two levels. The first that monogamy was, in actual fact, the predominant form of relationships in a way even stricter than most cases. This should not really surprise people, while polygamy was acceptable across most of humanity for most of history it was also always a measure of wealth and status and showing it off for the rulers who could do it. For those who could not afford it, monogamy was the only way they could live. The second was that women moved in what would be sociologically termed a matrilocal system while men stayed, which was not the system that would emerge by the time of the age of writing.

And as a reminder this is that same era of mute and brute violence marked by broken bones and wounds left from stone blades and spear points. None of that changes here, what is shown here is that the violence, the physical demands of the early agrarian age, all of that co-existed with lives that were lived as all lives are, and that there was more to life than that violence alone.

And that suffering overwhelmingly from it did not mean that women could not, and did not, play very important roles that defied the conditions of the realities they lived in materially while not otherwise altering them. This same juxtaposition is where archaeology at its most blunt levels refutes the underlying premise of Marxism and all its bastard spawn that share its underlying assumptions. Material realities do not alter the world of ideas or the world of religion, and if anything can reinforce the bigotry behind both.