How exactly did longbows, known for requiring significant arm strength, end up becoming the Default Female Protagonist Weapon? Is it just Hunger Games?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Dunno about the West, but in Korea, everybody, including women, trained with bows. Only men trained with close range weapons. So "female warrior" is inherently associated with archery, and it just looks cool. And shut up, I know Tzuyu is Taiwanese.pic.twitter.com/ugtcRtxJsq
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Replying to @LeeSpring_ @BootlegGirl
Small aside: archery is Korea's national sport, and Korea completely dominates international competition. So much so that to mix things up, we sent a BLIND archer to the London Olympics - who then broke his own world record.
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Replying to @LeeSpring_ @BootlegGirl
Isn't archery a club in Japanese schools that's kind of feminine or am I watching too much anime? I kind of felt like Girls und Panzer was playing on that; a martial club with tanks, not bows.
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Replying to @Tuplet @BootlegGirl
Interestingly enough, the sword as the quintessential samurai weapon is a fairly modern trope of stage and screen. Warriors are by necessity pragmatic people, and so their actual weapon of choice in actual battles was - you guessed it - the bow.
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as musashi says, weapons are simply tools, and you pick the best one for the situation. getting romantic about it is how you get your head beaten in with an oar.
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also how could i have omitted this classic dramatization: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=40 pic.twitter.com/c2kw4T5j0M
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That "bonk" tho, I'm crying
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hark! a vagrant is solid gold every time
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This story always makes me think of d20 Modern back in the day and how in the modern universe the Mace of St. Cuthbert takes the form of a length of lead pipe
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Or, you know, Snow Crash calling a chunk of rebar the "urban katana"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I always loved the shield that was actually a stop sign.
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