Child sacrifices at famed Maya site were all boys, many closely related

White_Immigrant · 2024-06-12T17:35:33+00:00

Interesting, grim, and yet another little slice of evidence making the "males were privileged for all of history" narrative look like absolute nonsense.

Johntoreno · 2024-06-12T21:50:00+00:00

I still remember the media campaign "bring back our girls" but no news channel gave a damn about the boys bokoharam forced to be child soldiers. This is how the media conditions the average liberal into thinking that "men have it better" because the only Gender Issues that gets any airtime is women's.

Grow_peace_in_Bedlam · 2024-06-13T03:22:42+00:00

DNA from 64 remains in the chamber pegs the bodies as males, challenging an earlier idea that females sacrificed in fertility rites were interred there, archaeogeneticist Rodrigo Barquera and colleagues report June 12 in Nature.

I wonder if that myth came from Spanish propaganda. Certainly, even 16th-century conquistadores knew that they'd get more crown support for their conquests if their adversaries were believed to be cruel to women rather than just to disposable men.

jakelove12 · 2024-06-13T00:21:48+00:00

The top post in the thread in r/science is about how hard this must have been for mothers.

URAPhallicy · 2024-06-13T02:53:28+00:00

Apparently the Maya sacrificed males to male gods and females to female gods. It's in the article apparently. I didn't read it either...just from a comment elsewhere.

Virtual_Piece · 2024-06-13T05:29:48+00:00

Male disposability. Existed all throughout time

Grow_peace_in_Bedlam · 2024-06-13T00:48:42+00:00

Considering that 88% of homicide victims in present-day Mexico are male, it's not at all surprising to me to learn that male disposability has deep roots here.

For more direct comparability, I will make sure to find stats for states with large Maya populations today (including Yucatan and Quintana Roo) later this evening.

EDIT: Downvotes for a pro-male comment on a pro-male sub, really?

EDIT 2: In the states with the largest present-day Maya populations, namely Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Campeche, the percentages of homicide victims who are male according to 2022 stats (the most recent ones published online) are 87%, 88%, and 90%.

In Chiapas and Tabasco (two states without large Maya populations that historically were largely Maya territory), the percentages are 87% and 87.5%

To be certain, I don't think this tendency was unique to the Maya, or to the pre-Columbian peoples of Mexico in general, since these percentages are very close to the national average. The north of Mexico has a much stronger Spanish influence, and the percentages are not drastically different, ranging from about 83% to 89% (the latter of which corresponds to the state of Chihuahua, which is notorious in mainstream discourse for its femicides despite men making up the vast majority of homicide victims there).

Actual_HumanBeing · 2024-06-13T12:31:40+00:00

Not surprised… 😤😤😤🤬🤬🤬

Mesterjojo · 2024-06-13T01:12:46+00:00

Just like male chicks today. Destroy the males. Billions.

househubbyintraining · 2024-06-12T19:17:13+00:00

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Title	Child sacrifices at famed Maya site were all boys, many closely related
Author	White_Immigrant
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Date	June 12, 2024 5:34 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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