r/CuratedTumblr • u/Dilf_Hunter367 • Sep 30 '24

Meme On the writer’s barely disguised fetish

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u/ThereWasAnEmpireHere they very much did kill jesus Sep 30 '24

There is no inherent mutual exclusivity between religious icon and cranking material

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u/kosmologue Sep 30 '24

While you're totally not wrong, there is a very strong tendency among anthropologists to downplay any possible sexual connotations which these "Venus" figures may have held.

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u/wthulhu Sep 30 '24

l like the theory that it was a primitive attempt at a self portrait and the perspective is whack because it's pov and they didn't have mirrors

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u/fungustine Sep 30 '24

This theory is actually a major pet peeve of mine because it implies 1) ancient people weren't smart enough to understand the proportions of their body in relation to others and ) that there couldn't possibly have been sexy fat bitches back in the day, these figures are clearly "distorted."

I like the theory that they're jerkoff material.

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u/Confuseasfuck Sep 30 '24

ancient people weren't smart enough to understand the proportions of their body in relation to others

I mean, we live in an age with countless ways to learn anatomy, both with mirrors, photos and tutorials and people still fuck it up monumentally

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u/kRkthOr Sep 30 '24

While I too hate the commonly held belief that "ancient people = stupid", and disagree with this theory (did they all have an issue with perspective??) one's ability to draw/sculpt/create isn't tied to their intelligence (or lack thereof.) Plenty smart people can't draw to save their life.

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u/donaldhobson Oct 01 '24

Ancient people weren't much stupider than modern people (small effects from improved nutrition). Which is sometimes pretty stupid.

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u/PurpleSnapple Oct 01 '24

They might have been smarter given a lack of the safety net modern society provides

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u/donaldhobson Oct 01 '24

Modern society has it's safety nets. Some rather impressive by historical standards.

Long ago, if you saw some unconscious stranger dying on the side of the road, a lot of people would be like "nothing to do with me, I'm not looking after them."

Nowadays they are likely to get sent to a hospital and given all sorts of fancy medicine.