Tbh milkmaids were the prettiest women because they would get mild cases of cowpox instead of skin wrecking smallpox and it was the origin of the smallpox vaccine (vacca means cow in latin).
Huh I didn’t know humans could get mild cowpox
A great many pathogens can be "weakened" with various processes, heat is one, but also the surviving strains in a living being that beat the disease via immunity may also carry weakened strains and this is where we learned to deliberately contract smallpox via poking someone's skin pustule and poking ourselves with that pus.
Gross but highly effective. This is how George Washington inoculated his army. (Which of course he learned about through a Reverend in Boston who learned about it from his slave, Onesimus, which makes sense as smallpox was ravaging Africa for over 10,000 years, they figured it out eventually.)
Thank you so much for sharing this interesting information.
And they had to be clean, so washed daily, and were always inside, in a very clean environment.
You are a milkmaid?
they're both drunk, though. so that's more than normal.
Alcohol would be considerably safer to drink than most water you could find
And it was way tamer than what we commonly drink now.
It was similar to Table Beer, iirc.
for consumption by children and by servants.
I don't know what's wrong with your toddler, he has barely touched his lager.
through big chunks of human history, being sober was an exception.
Through big chunks of my Saturday being sober was an exception.
Your move.
Do medieval shows only hire conventionally unattractive men? I always thought the convention was to have attractive people play important parts or "good" characters, regardless of gender, but admittedly I don't really watch many medieval shows.
Witcher?
Game did a good job of having the ugliest polish man with a pitchfork in the town...
Then the local alchemist has a dump truck ass with eyeliner on.
If you're talking about my girl Keira Metz, she's a witch, not a standard alchemist. Woman definitely engages in performance enhancing magic
Had to look up. Got alchemist and herbalist confused.
It was tomira. I did remember the ass lol
I looked her name up on google and half the images are indeed about said dump truck lol
I think the canon is that pretty much all witches do
*Attractive evil villain enters scene*
"...they're gonna get a tragic backstory and sacrifice themselves for some noble cause."
*3 seasons later*
"Oh goddamit."
By "important or 'good' characters" I wasn't trying to say "protagonists and morally good characters", though there are certainly plenty of authors and directors who follow that rule.
What's wrong with their noses?
That's just the comic artist's style.
I see. I find it distracting.
aminal crossing
orang
This is what bothered me slightly in the Witcher games.
I don't agree with you there are really attractive male characters in the witcher.
Yeah but all boobs on anyone (maybe apart from Ciri) were the exact same every time. Massive and perfectly round.
i don’t get it
The comic highlights the differences in the portrayal of women and men in media, often oversexualizing women in any number of contexts.
A medieval maid milking the cows would probably not have looked (or smelled) like a supermodel.
my peasant wife may not have regular access to soap but shes still the most beautiful piece of property i own
Nor perfectly shaved armpits. That's definitely a target here
Female character during a time where only royals could afford cleanliness and health: is fit, healthy, and conventionally attractive
Male character during the same time: fuckin filthy, feeble, and gross
Afaik that's a myth. People of all classes, always washed themselves and tried their best not to smell. Especially in the middle ages where it was widely believed that bad smells transmit disease.
It may vary from region to region, I once visited the Museum of Soap and History of Dirt in Bydgoszcz, Poland (wonderful experience!) and it was all au contraire to what you just said
And everytime I heard historians scratching that topic, they would always confirm this information. So historically not much hygiene in Eastern Europe, I suppose.
"The past" ^TM is a big place and a lot of very different things happend in a lot of different places at different times.
The same way it is true that "In the past people believed that fat was super unhealthy and suger was super healthy" and at the same time "in the past people believed that fat was super healthy and suger was super unhealthy".
Both statements are correct for different times and regions.
But trying your best as a medieval peasant versus as a medieval noble would have significantly differing results
Which game is this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come:_Deliverance
It could be the sequel also, but I highly recommend. An excellent story, challenging but interesting gameplay, and a dev studio that didn’t abandon their goals or devs for a quick cash out
We should bring back some of those traditions. It would be great it people cleaned more often.
Because people watch TV for the realism (well some do but most don't).
The problem is not the realism or lack thereof. It's the discrepancy between sexes and their portrayal. If it were equally unrealistic, it would be less jarring.
The portrayal of men is just as unrealistic. Maybe not in the same genre/show (target audiences etc etc) but the muscle definition u see all over the movies for men u think that's realistic?
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