Category: Culture (Page 6 of 21)

Today I learned that until the mid-1800’s, people who didn’t eat meat were referred to as “Pythagoreans”.  That’s about the time when some killjoy invented the word “vegetarian”.

This Rubens painting is Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism.

That’s from Wikipedia, and it doesn’t make sense because the painting is from the 1600’s.  Doesn’t matter, I’m still going to start calling them Pythagoreans.

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s book, Gothic Tales, he refers to a character as a Pythagorean, so the word was in usage in the 1800’s.  Back in the day, culture changed slowly and not uniformly.

Statues Of Random Fat Black Women Popping Up Worldwide

Those aren’t fat Black women.  Statues #2 and #4 would be overweight, but #2 looks like she’d be too tall and #4 carries too much weight in her belly.  I’m assuming that a fat Black woman is the same as a fat Black lady.

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The American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeney is a big deal because of what it reveals.

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