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metallifan wrote:Thermopylae (The setting of 300, for those unaware) was, I'm told, one of those cases.

Then whoever told her(and/or you) that was wrong. The history(from both sides) even states that they were wearing armour, which was part of the reason that they were so successful: the Persians had a hard time penetrating bronze shields and armor with their weapons, where as the heavier Spartan spears penetrated the Persian Wicker shields and cloth armor with ease. It was simply a case of Heavy Infantry in a defendable position vs waves and waves of inferiorly equipped light infantry.

My friends and I took an Anthro class on Sparta several years ago. The funny thing is that the studio actually had accurate Spartan armor made for 300 before Gerard Butler bulked up. They sold it to the History Channel(which then used it for their documentary, "The Last Stand of the 300").

Platuan4th wrote:

metallifan wrote:Thermopylae (The setting of 300, for those unaware) was, I'm told, one of those cases.

Then whoever told her(and/or you) that was wrong. The history(from both sides) even states that they were wearing armour, which was part of the reason that they were so successful: the Persians had a hard time penetrating bronze shields and armor with their weapons, where as the heavier Spartan spears penetrated the Persian Wicker shields and cloth armor with ease. It was simply a case of Heavy Infantry in a defendable position vs waves and waves of inferiorly equipped light infantry.

My friends and I took an Anthro class on Sparta several years ago. The funny thing is that the studio actually had accurate Spartan armor made for 300 before Gerard Butler bulked up. They sold it to the History Channel(which then used it for their documentary, "The Last Stand of the 300").

Interesting... Considering how much she paid for her course, I hope she sees this and pops a big "WTF" on the Professor. I know I will if she doesn't.

Here's why Female Armour is sexist. Because 90% of all games are targeted at obese, twenty-somethings without girlfriends who are prone to sexual fantasies.
By giving female characters impracticle but appealing armour, said twenty-somethings will buy the game.

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:Here's why Female Armour is sexist. Because 90% of all games are targeted at obese, twenty-somethings without girlfriends who are prone to sexual fantasies.
By giving female characters impracticle but appealing armour, said twenty-somethings will buy the game.

Excessive generalization...

metallifan wrote:
Interesting... Considering how much she paid for her course, I hope she sees this and pops a big "WTF" on the Professor. I know I will if she doesn't.

I've paid for a lot of bs courses too, but when they're required to graduate...

But the flaws with our education systems are something best reserved for another topic.

poipo32 wrote:

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:Here's why Female Armour is sexist. Because 90% of all games are targeted at obese, twenty-somethings without girlfriends who are prone to sexual fantasies.
By giving female characters impracticle but appealing armour, said twenty-somethings will buy the game.

Excessive generalization...

qft...

EDIT
Damn sorry for the 4 day bump... it's early...