fiona

Just a girl, sitting in a room, writing stuff and not getting paid

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@JessThanZero_ @IanKarmel I watched it aged 12, alone in my house with creaky stairs. That was my mistake.

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@JessThanZero_ @IanKarmel I never minded the shower scene that much, it was the stairs and (particularly) the 'I wouldn't hurt
a fly' bit at the end that haunted me

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@IanKarmel Little Monsters is amazing - heartwarming and funny teacher-deals-with-zombies-on-school-trip fun

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@JessThanZero_ @IanKarmel Psycho should not be on this list, genuinely terrifying

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@am_geoffrey @LisaRoxRoxRox @ask_aubry Had one boyfriend who did it a lot. It was terrifying. Didn't marry that guy.

[fiona @willwritefortea]

At this point why don't they just say to hell with it and announce that the winner of that Channel 4 Make Me Prime Minister programme gets to be the next Prime Minister? I mean it's right there

[Anand Menon @anandMenon1]

Seems to me that one of the implications of today is to cast into sharp relief the failings of the Cameron Gov. Imagine if we'd borrowed sustainably at next to 0% interest rates to, say, insulate homes, or ensure adequate capacity in NHS. Hindsight is great, and also revealing.

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@TheLittleHous19 @miffythegamer I imagine they eat separately because you just try offering a small child a kale salad for dinner and see what happens. Presumably (hopefully) the child is allowed to eat real food

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@zenia2020 @MTB_Archaeology Yes, there are, based on the skull as well as the pelvis and at a deeper level looking at the DNA in the bones. It's also worth remembering that looking at a skeleton doesn't tell you how someone saw themselves or how society saw them.

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@zenia2020 @MTB_Archaeology Yes, because *some* men will have that very masculine type of pelvis and *some* women will have that very feminine type of pelvis but the majority of people will fall in between the two, which is why ascribing sex to a skeleton is often difficult.

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@leman_pie @pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer I mean you joke but literally every time you are recording a skeleton as an osteoarchaeologist you really want to just be able to talk to them and find out who they were and what their life was like. Haven't had any talk back to me yet though 🥲

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@fringeblog Water

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer @AzureTaryu Yep, this is a real problem, especially as literacy rates were poor and it is likely that people who did not conform to the church's idea of gender norms may have been nervous about writing openly

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer @AzureTaryu Trying to study gender and identity in the past is definitely difficult, and getting at how someone saw themselves is harder than working out how society saw them (because, after all, people don't bury themselves).

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer @AzureTaryu Maybe, although only certain time periods and cultures used grave goods. In Europe the Christian church banned grave goods in the medieval period, and after that you really have very little to go on.

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer @AzureTaryu Oh yeah that's just a weird and unpleasant argument

[fiona @willwritefortea]

Genuinely though I was handling the death of Angela Lansbury very well until they played the teapot song on the radio

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer @AzureTaryu But using both together, as in this case, can actually lead to some really interesting discussions about gender roles and gender identities in the past. I am just pleased we have moved on from 'has a sword, must be a man'

[fiona @willwritefortea]

@pikanator90 @Alchemilla_1234 @Trey_Explainer @AzureTaryu Yep that's fair - as the OP said, a lot of the time it is not possible to ascribe a sex to a skeleton anyway as sexual dimorphism amongst humans is actually very low and there is a lot of overlap. Neither method is perfect.