May 25, 2026: After eleven years, I have moved this article to Medium. It's paywalled there. Thank you, thirty thousand people who have viewed this. If you pay $5/month to Medium, you can read my article and millions more by everyone who writes there.
Detail of Ethiopian painting commemorating the Battle of Adwa, Catalogue No. E261845-0, Department of Anthropology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Joshua Sherurcij, 2007.
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If you are interested in castrated villains in fiction, please check out Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains. If you are interested in the Western literary treatment of castration in history, please check out Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty. Both are by Tucker Lieberman.
Warfare is a fascinating subject. Despite the dubious morality of using violence to achieve personal or political aims. It remains that conflict has been used to do just that throughout recorded history.
ReplyDeleteYour article is very well done, a good read.
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ReplyDeleteLīķu kastrācija ir barbarisms. Varēja gūstekņus kastrēt, lai nelien svešā zemē.
ReplyDeleteI can't really say the act of castrating white males isn't justified when they themselves enslaved blacks and castrated and raped them in an effort to get rid of them. Payback has never been so sweet.
ReplyDelete!! You got that right!!!
Deleteвсё верно, не лезь, куда не звали. Маленькие народы только так может отпугивать потенциальных поработителей - яйца долой.
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