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Evil Count Erudite

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Okay okay okay okay... So. This actually *does* make you historically queer as a woman. When the fork was introduced to the Germanic/Norse areas of Europe, it was regarded as unmanly because Real Men(TM) just used a knife for stabby-eating purposes. Socially, forks were just for women.

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Evil Count Erudite's avatar Evil Count Erudite @frozenpeas.bsky.social
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Wait, I just remembered who I'm talking to. Either you already know this or it's another area where one of my professors overstated something and I accepted a little too credulously. Sorry!

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Kathleen E. Kennedy's avatar Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social
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yeah that's all myth and entirely fact-free

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