Morning all,

Last week was all about words so this week is all about physical strength. I'm also 100% back on my minimal commentary grind and I hope you enjoy these links as much as I did.

An article that has it all, assuming you like at least one of suffragettes, amazons, academic intrigue and comic books:

Wonder Woman’s origin story comes straight out of feminist utopian fiction. In the nineteenth century, suffragists, following the work of anthropologists, believed that something like the Amazons of Greek myth had once existed, a matriarchy that predated the rise of patriarchy.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/last-amazon

I thought about it and it checks out:

If you think about it, a woman on a horse with a bow, trained since childhood, can be just as fast and as deadly as a boy or man.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141029-amazons-scythians-hunger-games-herodotus-ice-princess-tattoo-cannabis/

I understand why some people might believe the only way to advance women’s rights is to slaughter every man on the planet, but that sort of radical, explicitly homicidal position, which for all I know is a fundamental aspect of feminism, is exactly what makes me hesitate to call myself a feminist.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-dont-support-feminism-if-it-means-murdering-all,37301/

Have a lovely weekend,

Alex.