>woman tries to be "brave" and do something men do best
>fails miserably
More hilarious nonfiction stories like this? I'm in need of a good laugh.
>>7491712
who hurt you anon
>>7491712
just take a ride on the tumblr train. there are hundreds of thousands of accounts of exactly this.
enjoy.
>>7491748
This desu senpai
Tumblr one big hamper of damaged girls.
what are you fucking gay?
>>7491712
I'll never understand why the British like Boudica so much. Isn't she like, literally the worst military leader of all time?
Raised an army of two hundred thousand, sacked and burned a few undefended cities and killed a bunch of civilians, then she encountered a tiny Roman army and got absolutely destroyed. Like, the Romans were literally considering abandoning Britain before the battle since they thought the Briton army was supposed to be extremely dangerous, and then they just crushed it effortlessly while outnumbered roughly 20:1.
Yeah, yeah, I know barbarians usually lost against Romans in those times even when they heavily outnumbered them, and that victors tend to exaggerate the numbers the foe they defeated had to look better, but come on, 20:1? Even for barbarians that's embarrassing.
"Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers—they're not even properly equipped. We've beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they'll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you'll have everything."
Based Suetonius
>>7492042
People prefer a loser to a hero in their hearts. Same with the Scots with William Wallace, or with Southerners with the Confederacy. Its like Orwell said, ask any Englishman to name a few battles from WW1 and he'll list the spectacular losses like the Somme. They never mention all the victories in that war.
Someone like Wellington may be recognised heroes but they're not folk heroes. Nobody likes a winner.
>>7491712
You're a giant faggot.
Back to /r9k/, shoo.
>>7492042
People like romantic uprisings and underdogs and tragic endings, which shouldn't really be news to anyone on /lit/. But regardless, the figures from Rome are likely ridiculous exaggerations- the location of that final battle has never been discovered, and if 80,000 Britons had died there, the literal millions of bones and the piles of armour and coins and weapons just might have been a tip-off. Rome certainly won due to their superior tactics, as they almost always did at the time, but they were notorious for vastly inflating the numbers in the favour of their empire and there are no written records from anyone else to support or contradict what was said.
>>7492092
Kill yourself, Tumblrtard.
>>7492092
Back to tumblr, roastie
>>7492092
That is a microaggression against homosexuals. Don't alienate other marginalized groups in your white knight crusade for women's rights.
