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delacroix: Ways to ensure I don't post your tattoo:

aliceeatsbunny:

delacroix:

Cultural and/or historical tattoos you clearly don’t understand the context of.

Examples of this include women in Native American warbonnets, using the sentence “the Native American word for ___ is ___” and explaining a Che Guevara tattoo with the phrase “He was a great man.” You don’t even get…

i’m not really interested in native american culture, i’m not even american and all.but after that post, i might actually think about getting a woman in warbonnets.it would be a great symbol of all the woman who are as strong and wise warriors as man and who achieved great things just as much but never have been honored with a crown or a warbonnet just because they were females.it is that way in many other cultures you know, man are always praised for what they achieve and woman don’t.that false image of woman in a warbonnet might ironically say, yeah it is 21 century and we CAN have a warbonnet now!

You’re viewing Native society through your own cultural bias and ignorance. Women not wearing warbonnets wasn’t sexist; women’s subjugation to men didn’t even exist until after colonization. Traditionally, Native American women had respect, power, freedom, autonomy, and equality. Native American societies were largely egalitarian in nature, with both men and women recognized for their bravery, deeds, and the quality of their work. That recognition just came in different but equal and complimentary ways. There were numerous highly respected female chiefs, warriors, and medicine women.

And in many societies women were thought to be spiritually superior to men and innately gifted—arguably, they didn’t need the power or spiritual protection the bonnet was thought to provide.