{"id":4274,"date":"2009-03-23T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:06:01","slug":"menstruation-civilisation-and-pseudo-intellectual-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/menstruation-civilisation-and-pseudo-intellectual-blah\/","title":{"rendered":"Menstruation, Civilisation And Pseudo-Intellectual Blah"},"content":{"rendered":"

The London Telegraph<\/i> has a story<\/a> on Camilla Power and Chris Knight, two anthropology lecturers who are leading demonstrations against the G20 summit. It tells us:<\/p>\n

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Educated at the Skinners’ Grammar School for Boys and University College London, he is a founder of the Radical Anthropology Group (RAG), which explores the origins of society from a Marxist standpoint. The pair have developed theories on the central role of women’s menstruation cycles in the development of civilisation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instantly I Googled, and found this study<\/a>. It features the magnificent sentence, “The coalition of non-cycling females needs to grab any female who is menstruating, preventing philanderer males from taking her away.”<\/i> I so<\/i> want to read the Amar Chitra Katha issue on this—and imagine the fun if Ekta Kapoor comes across this study. <\/p>\n

Also, imagine how differently human civilisation would allegedly have evolved if sanitary pads had been invented a few centuries ago.<\/p>\n

(Telegraph<\/i> link via email from BD<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The London Telegraph<\/i> has a story<\/a> on Camilla Power and Chris Knight, two anthropology lecturers who are leading demonstrations against the G20 summit. It tells us:<\/p>\n

\n

Educated at the Skinners’ Grammar School for Boys and University College London, he is a founder of the Radical Anthropology Group (RAG), which explores the origins of society from a Marxist standpoint. The pair have developed theories on the central role of women’s menstruation cycles in the development of civilisation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instantly I Googled, and found this study<\/a>. It features the magnificent sentence, “The coalition of non-cycling females needs to grab any female who is menstruating, preventing philanderer males from taking her away.”<\/i> I so<\/i> want to read the Amar Chitra Katha issue on this—and imagine the fun if Ekta Kapoor comes across this study. <\/p>\n

Also, imagine how differently human civilisation would allegedly have evolved if sanitary pads had been invented a few centuries ago.<\/p>\n

(Telegraph<\/i> link via email from BD<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMenstruation, Civilisation And Pseudo-Intellectual Blah - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/menstruation-civilisation-and-pseudo-intellectual-blah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Menstruation, Civilisation And Pseudo-Intellectual Blah - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The London Telegraph has a story on Camilla Power and Chris Knight, two anthropology lecturers who are leading demonstrations against the G20 summit. 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