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silveradeptLet us begin with this realization - many of us are living in a world where moral injury is common, possibly even to he point where it is a daily occurrence, as more and more people find themselves in situations where they have to make decisions that clash with their personal (and sometimes institutional) ethical systems, or witness events where persons abuse people who are trying to behave in ethical ways.
Italy has started removing one the same-sex parent who did not give birth from the birth certificates of children, both in the future and retroactively, with a corresponding stripping of parental rights from the removed person.
Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, defends the ALA and the people who work in libraries as the kind of places that can make good trouble. Which is something she should do, absolutely, and I like her trust. But I'm not sure that I have the same confidence in the ALA as I do in the library workers, who often find themselves fighting their organizations in the service of doing better and making the good trouble. Not just against the politicians who want to ban book and accuse library workers of interest in having sex with children, but against the corporations that are creating monopoly conditions where they can then stop providing a useful service and extract data and other such things, secure in the knowledge that there's no real alternative for anyone to leave to. But, often times, it feels like the library world does something like make an app able to geolocate someone and provide electronic copies of books that have been banned in that location and then proclaim victory, that they have defeated the censorship, without thinking too hard about all the people who don't have devices they can control to put such an app on, who might not have Internet access but at school, and who otherwise only have the access of the physical books in the school library. There has to be more than just this, but so many of the options that are available for effective advocacy are things that public libraries either are forbidden from doing, believe they're forbidden from doing, or choose not to do because they believe in pretty maximalist interpretations of "intellectual freedom" that allow known bad actors to censor queer works and to advocate for the same and think that the appropriate response to this is simply to carry the opposite point of view, if they're allowed to do so.
A state-appointed superintendent with no local accountability has decided to fire all the library workers and media specialists in specific Houston ISD schools and convert their space into disciplinary areas. The books will remain, and students can use them, but it's a clear decision to try and make more explicit the school-to-prison pipeline and to remove the idea of literacy and enjoyment of materials as something that is necessary for student success. It's certainly one of the more creative ways to ban books in a school district, I have to say.
Tony Bennett has left his heart in San Francisco for the last time, at 96 years of age, and a career of very interesting things. And also, a life-long commitment to civil rights and anti-discrimination, having seen it up close and seen what it does to someone. Sinéad O’Connor has left the world at 56 years of age, who may be better known in casual circles for her ultimately correct accusations of misconduct in the Catholic Church (and other places) than for her music, outside of one cover of a Prince song.
Paul Reubens, most iconically known for the character Pee-wee Herman, died at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Fuck cancer forever. And perhaps see if the Playhouse is any different now that you're older, wiser, and can probably spot more of the jokes.
Taking a long time to try and extricate horror as a genre from its own pulp origins so as to lay the blame for bad things and bad behavior solely at the feet of science fiction and fantasy writers, publishers, and their fans, because of their pulp origins. There's a decent post in there about publishing houses being merged and eaten and bought up so that there's less competition and less space for a wider variety of material on the market, about how the pulp origins of a lot of genres means they have to be on greater guard against unexamined assumptions and publishers, marketers, and fans using disingenuous and bad-faith tactics to smear their opponents and avoid having to deal with the problems inside the house, and about how industry constantly pivoting from one sub-genre to another and then flooding it with significant amounts of derivative and low-quality works generally drags the entire part of the market down and makes it toxic for a while. There even could be a fair amount of complaining about the adoption of social justice language and its misuse to portray people with valid criticisms as racists, misogynists, queerphobes, and other enemies of a construction that specifically excludes the people that it purports to act and talk on the behalf of. Things go off the rails by trying to exempt horror from the criticisms being leveled at SFF, despite both genres' origins and popularities coming from the era of pulp magazines and serials. When actually talking about the horror genre instead of bashing SFF, dismissing Ursula Vernon as a children's author trying to make it in horror has many of the echoes of how SFF supposedly dismisses and demonizes those who aren't instantly in lockstep with them, for example. (Or at the least, being a gatekeeper for horror in a similar way that many the fanboys of SFF are accused of being.) The other, more glaring problem with the piece, is the underlying assumption, never actually proven, that SFF fans, publishers, and authors are a monolith and all engage in these same kinds of tactics and avoidance of difficult questions and criticism, roaming from genre to genre to pillage it and accuse anyone criticizing them of a host of social justice-related offenses. With cursory research and some digging, rather than saying GRRM's conduct at the Hugos was universally laudable, it would become apparent that a significant amount of the fandom took great issue with it (and have been taking issue with him for years at that point), as well as things like Jeannete Ng's speeches and the renaming of the Lodestar award. And the World Fantasy Awards redesigned so as not to use H.P. Lovecraft's visage in 2015.
A criticism of Within the Wires and Welcome to Night Vale that the indigenous people of North America are not accounted for, either as present in the New Society / Night Vale, or as having been genocided or otherwise destroyed in some way, because narratives of the open spaces of the country often make the assumption that there is nothing there, when there have always been peoples there, even if they have never been acknowledged as being there. Or when the people are there, they're treated in specific colonial ways that continue to center whiteness and absolve the colonists from their own role in subjugation and genocide.
On the same idea, but in a different direction, the ways in which English fiction invisibles the servant class unless they are important to the plot.
How a book can have multiple levels, depending on the reading audience, and can sneak deep and mature themes past surface-level censors who are looking for the obvious.
An interpretation of the movie Labyrinth that makes the events of the movie just one Sarah compared to the specific Sarah of the story.
On navigating the fraught and often insult-prone world of scholars and men of letters as a woman in the fifteenth century, with some of those insults looking depressingly familiar to women of our time.
More materials and excavations of the Pompeii site, giving further insight and interesting artwork, close to certainty that a gravesite with a sword and mirror contained a woman warrior, based on tooth enamel analysis, which goes with the understanding that in a situation where everyone has to contribute for everyone to survive, in most foraging societies and historical periods, women were doing plenty of hunting for food and sustenance, rather than staying at home and letting the men handle all of that.
Cats and dogs in cute and amusing contexts, on the difficulty of translating the names of cats as well as trying to find another one to replace one who has departed, pictures of barn owls, fossils of creatures much more massive than whales, and tracing the provenance of an arrowhead made from meteoric iron and finding it may have come from very far away indeed.
Various forms of measles may be making a return in places such as London, where the MMR vaccination rates have cratered significantly in the course of living memory, which, I suppose, is also one of those things that can be pointed at when we wonder how so many people were unwilling to get the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
And speaking thereof, the dangers haven't lessened, the infections are still there, and so the best thing to do is to be as aware of the risks as you can and continue to practice safety in crowds and likely infection spaces. Like masking, updated vaccinations, and other such things to try and minimize the chances that you'll get the virus. Because each new infection increases the risks of permanent and lasting damage from the virus.
A doctor committing fraud and sending vaccination waivers to anyone who asks has surrendered his medical license and will pay fines for the action, after an investigation showed he was willing to send a card to a dog with no questions asked.
In technology, Kevin Mitnick, once one of the most wanted hackers on the planet, died at 59 years of age from pancreatic cancer. In a world of extortionists and black market trades of credit card data and other information used to impersonate others, Mitnick's approaches to getting into systems to see how they worked and to do other such things are much less destructive and, while not excusable, they certainly seem less terrible than our current era. Given that his business cards included a fully functional set of locksport tools, it's clear this was someone well known and, to some degree, loved from his decision to become a security consultant instead of continuing to do black hat work.
If you would like to test a method of browsing the Archive Of Our Own on a Kobo Reader, there's a fan-made project looking for participants and testers.
The era of the enthusiast programmer who also gets paid to do code at work may be giving way to the era of the person who programs as a job, and an entity that has built itself around the idea that all their programmers will be enthusiasts will find itself in difficulty when it instead has people who code because it is their job. I do think the point that computers have shifted from large obscure boxes through an era where they were remarkably open and learning to use them and program for them meant learning a lot about how they work and now are back to being obscured boxes (but much smaller) is a relevant one.There are a lot of things I'm pretty comfortable doing because I grew up with computers, learning how to use them and to diagnose and fix their errors. That I am occasionally writing code along with that, even if it's not good professional code, is a function of having that familiarity. The fact that I'm running desktop Linux is because I have that familiarity with computers and a willingness to put up with some of their quirks. I have yet to figure out what the solution is for getting more people comfortable with their computers, even if they never graduate to that enthusiast level, but I think the solution involves having machines that are hackable, borkable, and fixable (and inexpensive.)
Gameplay and Story integration in the Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom Zelda games by making the mechanic to reset the world explicit, rather than implicit.
The story of Thrilling Bits, a UK-based operation that personally imported various sex toys, publications, and films from the United States to get around the bans in place in the UK, and also to improve the quality of the material that was available for purchase.
Efforts continue to try and scale up the ability to collect electrical energy from ambient, usually humid, air.
A series on the failures and abuses of stalkerware, starting first with the obvious parts of why stalking someone and trying to be controlling of them is wrong and bad and then going into the other part where people who create stalkerware more often than not find themselves as the targets of data breaches, and that spills all of the stalking and personal information of the stalked into the greater web at large, magnifying the impacts. Given that nefarious purposes are already in the wild for apps that are above-board about how their purposes are to spy on people constantly, this seems like another of those situations where a "could" never came close enough to "should" to say hello.
Patreon had twin issues affecting creators getting their payments on time and patrons having their subscriptions and transactions declined. So if you use Patreon in any way, you probably should check up and make sure that everything you are doing is going smoothly.
At the end, the cultural significance of the translator-notated Japanese in fan-translations of various properties, which is much less important now that official studios and releases have done professional translation work for a lot of things and anime and manga fandom as a whole has moved firmly out of the niche environment it was in during the heyday of fan-translations. There's a deeper dive to be done there, probably, especially in comparison to how the professionally-published material handles translator's notes, cultural jokes, and contexts intimately familiar to the source but not to the translated work, versus the expectation that the anime-interested audience of the time would do some cultural research of their own so they could understand what was going on with a more direct translation (or decision to leave "untranslated") instead of having the translator shift what was going on into a more understandable context for the target audience. ("Gal Game", for example, would probably be shunted into something more like "games with the half-naked women on the cover" that gets the point across without needing to explain the fact that H-games are much more culturally accepted (and made) in Japan than in the States.)
I put this next to A Mitfreude of Anime and Manga's Relationship With Anglophone Science Fiction (which, as it promises, is not an essay trying to convince someone to get into anime and manga) because of the way that it talks about needing to do a fair amount of reading in the media and become familiar with tropes and conventions before some of the deeper aspects or interesting parts of various works pop out. (It also does a good job of explaining why shonen is the most prominent genre available and why, when the chips are down, moe is where the money is.) It's a really good look at the origins of the media and many of its recurrent themes, how the animation age ghetto caused problems worldwide, and why what you can get in the U.S. seems to have a fairly small slice of what is actually published (as usual, because there isn't a demonstrated market for it, and U.S. audiences are still having trouble not conceiving of all comics as things for immature people.)
The conditions that lead to "spontaneous" sex still are often undertaken by women, including internal and external motivations to change themselves so as to modulate their availability, with the still-persistent idea that men are very easily able to have desire, or are constantly horny.
And backgrounds with rainbow themes that could be used as icons or as bases for icons, because profile pictures are still a thing, and some of us are on sites that let us switch between them with posts.
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Italy has started removing one the same-sex parent who did not give birth from the birth certificates of children, both in the future and retroactively, with a corresponding stripping of parental rights from the removed person.
Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, defends the ALA and the people who work in libraries as the kind of places that can make good trouble. Which is something she should do, absolutely, and I like her trust. But I'm not sure that I have the same confidence in the ALA as I do in the library workers, who often find themselves fighting their organizations in the service of doing better and making the good trouble. Not just against the politicians who want to ban book and accuse library workers of interest in having sex with children, but against the corporations that are creating monopoly conditions where they can then stop providing a useful service and extract data and other such things, secure in the knowledge that there's no real alternative for anyone to leave to. But, often times, it feels like the library world does something like make an app able to geolocate someone and provide electronic copies of books that have been banned in that location and then proclaim victory, that they have defeated the censorship, without thinking too hard about all the people who don't have devices they can control to put such an app on, who might not have Internet access but at school, and who otherwise only have the access of the physical books in the school library. There has to be more than just this, but so many of the options that are available for effective advocacy are things that public libraries either are forbidden from doing, believe they're forbidden from doing, or choose not to do because they believe in pretty maximalist interpretations of "intellectual freedom" that allow known bad actors to censor queer works and to advocate for the same and think that the appropriate response to this is simply to carry the opposite point of view, if they're allowed to do so.
A state-appointed superintendent with no local accountability has decided to fire all the library workers and media specialists in specific Houston ISD schools and convert their space into disciplinary areas. The books will remain, and students can use them, but it's a clear decision to try and make more explicit the school-to-prison pipeline and to remove the idea of literacy and enjoyment of materials as something that is necessary for student success. It's certainly one of the more creative ways to ban books in a school district, I have to say.
Tony Bennett has left his heart in San Francisco for the last time, at 96 years of age, and a career of very interesting things. And also, a life-long commitment to civil rights and anti-discrimination, having seen it up close and seen what it does to someone. Sinéad O’Connor has left the world at 56 years of age, who may be better known in casual circles for her ultimately correct accusations of misconduct in the Catholic Church (and other places) than for her music, outside of one cover of a Prince song.
Paul Reubens, most iconically known for the character Pee-wee Herman, died at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Fuck cancer forever. And perhaps see if the Playhouse is any different now that you're older, wiser, and can probably spot more of the jokes.
Taking a long time to try and extricate horror as a genre from its own pulp origins so as to lay the blame for bad things and bad behavior solely at the feet of science fiction and fantasy writers, publishers, and their fans, because of their pulp origins. There's a decent post in there about publishing houses being merged and eaten and bought up so that there's less competition and less space for a wider variety of material on the market, about how the pulp origins of a lot of genres means they have to be on greater guard against unexamined assumptions and publishers, marketers, and fans using disingenuous and bad-faith tactics to smear their opponents and avoid having to deal with the problems inside the house, and about how industry constantly pivoting from one sub-genre to another and then flooding it with significant amounts of derivative and low-quality works generally drags the entire part of the market down and makes it toxic for a while. There even could be a fair amount of complaining about the adoption of social justice language and its misuse to portray people with valid criticisms as racists, misogynists, queerphobes, and other enemies of a construction that specifically excludes the people that it purports to act and talk on the behalf of. Things go off the rails by trying to exempt horror from the criticisms being leveled at SFF, despite both genres' origins and popularities coming from the era of pulp magazines and serials. When actually talking about the horror genre instead of bashing SFF, dismissing Ursula Vernon as a children's author trying to make it in horror has many of the echoes of how SFF supposedly dismisses and demonizes those who aren't instantly in lockstep with them, for example. (Or at the least, being a gatekeeper for horror in a similar way that many the fanboys of SFF are accused of being.) The other, more glaring problem with the piece, is the underlying assumption, never actually proven, that SFF fans, publishers, and authors are a monolith and all engage in these same kinds of tactics and avoidance of difficult questions and criticism, roaming from genre to genre to pillage it and accuse anyone criticizing them of a host of social justice-related offenses. With cursory research and some digging, rather than saying GRRM's conduct at the Hugos was universally laudable, it would become apparent that a significant amount of the fandom took great issue with it (and have been taking issue with him for years at that point), as well as things like Jeannete Ng's speeches and the renaming of the Lodestar award. And the World Fantasy Awards redesigned so as not to use H.P. Lovecraft's visage in 2015.
A criticism of Within the Wires and Welcome to Night Vale that the indigenous people of North America are not accounted for, either as present in the New Society / Night Vale, or as having been genocided or otherwise destroyed in some way, because narratives of the open spaces of the country often make the assumption that there is nothing there, when there have always been peoples there, even if they have never been acknowledged as being there. Or when the people are there, they're treated in specific colonial ways that continue to center whiteness and absolve the colonists from their own role in subjugation and genocide.
On the same idea, but in a different direction, the ways in which English fiction invisibles the servant class unless they are important to the plot.
How a book can have multiple levels, depending on the reading audience, and can sneak deep and mature themes past surface-level censors who are looking for the obvious.
An interpretation of the movie Labyrinth that makes the events of the movie just one Sarah compared to the specific Sarah of the story.
On navigating the fraught and often insult-prone world of scholars and men of letters as a woman in the fifteenth century, with some of those insults looking depressingly familiar to women of our time.
More materials and excavations of the Pompeii site, giving further insight and interesting artwork, close to certainty that a gravesite with a sword and mirror contained a woman warrior, based on tooth enamel analysis, which goes with the understanding that in a situation where everyone has to contribute for everyone to survive, in most foraging societies and historical periods, women were doing plenty of hunting for food and sustenance, rather than staying at home and letting the men handle all of that.
Cats and dogs in cute and amusing contexts, on the difficulty of translating the names of cats as well as trying to find another one to replace one who has departed, pictures of barn owls, fossils of creatures much more massive than whales, and tracing the provenance of an arrowhead made from meteoric iron and finding it may have come from very far away indeed.
Various forms of measles may be making a return in places such as London, where the MMR vaccination rates have cratered significantly in the course of living memory, which, I suppose, is also one of those things that can be pointed at when we wonder how so many people were unwilling to get the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
And speaking thereof, the dangers haven't lessened, the infections are still there, and so the best thing to do is to be as aware of the risks as you can and continue to practice safety in crowds and likely infection spaces. Like masking, updated vaccinations, and other such things to try and minimize the chances that you'll get the virus. Because each new infection increases the risks of permanent and lasting damage from the virus.
A doctor committing fraud and sending vaccination waivers to anyone who asks has surrendered his medical license and will pay fines for the action, after an investigation showed he was willing to send a card to a dog with no questions asked.
In technology, Kevin Mitnick, once one of the most wanted hackers on the planet, died at 59 years of age from pancreatic cancer. In a world of extortionists and black market trades of credit card data and other information used to impersonate others, Mitnick's approaches to getting into systems to see how they worked and to do other such things are much less destructive and, while not excusable, they certainly seem less terrible than our current era. Given that his business cards included a fully functional set of locksport tools, it's clear this was someone well known and, to some degree, loved from his decision to become a security consultant instead of continuing to do black hat work.
If you would like to test a method of browsing the Archive Of Our Own on a Kobo Reader, there's a fan-made project looking for participants and testers.
The era of the enthusiast programmer who also gets paid to do code at work may be giving way to the era of the person who programs as a job, and an entity that has built itself around the idea that all their programmers will be enthusiasts will find itself in difficulty when it instead has people who code because it is their job. I do think the point that computers have shifted from large obscure boxes through an era where they were remarkably open and learning to use them and program for them meant learning a lot about how they work and now are back to being obscured boxes (but much smaller) is a relevant one.There are a lot of things I'm pretty comfortable doing because I grew up with computers, learning how to use them and to diagnose and fix their errors. That I am occasionally writing code along with that, even if it's not good professional code, is a function of having that familiarity. The fact that I'm running desktop Linux is because I have that familiarity with computers and a willingness to put up with some of their quirks. I have yet to figure out what the solution is for getting more people comfortable with their computers, even if they never graduate to that enthusiast level, but I think the solution involves having machines that are hackable, borkable, and fixable (and inexpensive.)
Gameplay and Story integration in the Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom Zelda games by making the mechanic to reset the world explicit, rather than implicit.
The story of Thrilling Bits, a UK-based operation that personally imported various sex toys, publications, and films from the United States to get around the bans in place in the UK, and also to improve the quality of the material that was available for purchase.
Efforts continue to try and scale up the ability to collect electrical energy from ambient, usually humid, air.
A series on the failures and abuses of stalkerware, starting first with the obvious parts of why stalking someone and trying to be controlling of them is wrong and bad and then going into the other part where people who create stalkerware more often than not find themselves as the targets of data breaches, and that spills all of the stalking and personal information of the stalked into the greater web at large, magnifying the impacts. Given that nefarious purposes are already in the wild for apps that are above-board about how their purposes are to spy on people constantly, this seems like another of those situations where a "could" never came close enough to "should" to say hello.
Patreon had twin issues affecting creators getting their payments on time and patrons having their subscriptions and transactions declined. So if you use Patreon in any way, you probably should check up and make sure that everything you are doing is going smoothly.
At the end, the cultural significance of the translator-notated Japanese in fan-translations of various properties, which is much less important now that official studios and releases have done professional translation work for a lot of things and anime and manga fandom as a whole has moved firmly out of the niche environment it was in during the heyday of fan-translations. There's a deeper dive to be done there, probably, especially in comparison to how the professionally-published material handles translator's notes, cultural jokes, and contexts intimately familiar to the source but not to the translated work, versus the expectation that the anime-interested audience of the time would do some cultural research of their own so they could understand what was going on with a more direct translation (or decision to leave "untranslated") instead of having the translator shift what was going on into a more understandable context for the target audience. ("Gal Game", for example, would probably be shunted into something more like "games with the half-naked women on the cover" that gets the point across without needing to explain the fact that H-games are much more culturally accepted (and made) in Japan than in the States.)
I put this next to A Mitfreude of Anime and Manga's Relationship With Anglophone Science Fiction (which, as it promises, is not an essay trying to convince someone to get into anime and manga) because of the way that it talks about needing to do a fair amount of reading in the media and become familiar with tropes and conventions before some of the deeper aspects or interesting parts of various works pop out. (It also does a good job of explaining why shonen is the most prominent genre available and why, when the chips are down, moe is where the money is.) It's a really good look at the origins of the media and many of its recurrent themes, how the animation age ghetto caused problems worldwide, and why what you can get in the U.S. seems to have a fairly small slice of what is actually published (as usual, because there isn't a demonstrated market for it, and U.S. audiences are still having trouble not conceiving of all comics as things for immature people.)
The conditions that lead to "spontaneous" sex still are often undertaken by women, including internal and external motivations to change themselves so as to modulate their availability, with the still-persistent idea that men are very easily able to have desire, or are constantly horny.
And backgrounds with rainbow themes that could be used as icons or as bases for icons, because profile pictures are still a thing, and some of us are on sites that let us switch between them with posts.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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Date: 2023-08-04 09:32 pm (UTC)Um.
That feels like it's probably a really important warning sign. Having that many people experience moral injury in itself is bad, but every example they list points to a state of overwhelmed systems that is truly alarming.
it feels like the library world does something like make an app able to geolocate someone and provide electronic copies of books that have been banned in that location and then proclaim victory, that they have defeated the censorship
Not to be That Person, but I really wonder about the legal standing here. We don't have laws against *reading* banned material (as far as I'm aware? but ianal) but it is not a stretch to think one could be sued for *providing* certain forms of banned material - say, a harmless book about gender to a minor in Florida.
Admittedly, if it's possible to be sued for that, the law sucks and ought to be changed, but it seems to me that's getting into an interesting legal space.
That's not even getting into questions of how quickly a given work's readers can be geolocated with such an app.
Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman
One more for the file!
...uh, I should probably keep an actual list somewhere, it's becoming extensive. You raise an excellent point about everyone needing to be on deck in such situations.
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Date: 2023-08-05 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-08-05 04:56 am (UTC)Most of the laws being passed are about either "providing" the material or about allowing a minor to access it without appropriate parental permissions on file, so legal exposure is probably most difficult for someone who is in the state and can be traced to having promoted such access. Until there's a nationwide van on such things, however, those of us outside the jurisdiction can merrily talk about such things and hope the information makes its way through the network of avoiding censorship issues. And trying to sue Palace or any of the providers of Books Unbanned hasn't happened...yet, nor have there been demands that Google or Apple censor apps that could be used to access forbidden materials in their jurisdiction. (Good luck beating either of those two in court, however.)
I do not have anthropological experience, but I seem to recall somewhere in my history classes that specialization and role differentiation only starts happening when there is surplus so that not all of the effort of the group has to be put towards finding our growing enough food to survive. We know full well that women farmed, so it stands to reason that they would also participate in persistence predation as well as gathering wild foods.