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u/Desperate_Owl_594 17h ago
There was an anime I remember seeing where there was this ugly fat dude who was hunting ogres and they're fighting and the ogres knock off his helmet and theyre like "damn. This dude is FIIIINE" and they basically, through trials, make him a raid leader on human villages.
It's kinda funny and interesting to see this trope so often.
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u/IrishHound3564 13h ago
TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy?
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u/ThreeDotsTogether 19h ago
Those goblins sure are nice to someone who killed their husbands
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u/Makabajones 18h ago
That's a fly amantia, very poisonous mushroom
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u/StonePrism 15h ago
I've never seen Fly Agaric and Amanita Muscaria portmanteaued like that before, but they are the same thing
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u/alcatrazach 17h ago
Pretty sure it’s just psychoactive no? Reindeer seem to enjoy them a lot.
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u/Makabajones 17h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
There hasn't been a documented fatal case in 100 years, but that's mostly because of modern medicine. they're still extremely unhealthy to eat.
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u/alcatrazach 17h ago
Damn well there’s a dude in r/unclebens wanting to clone one he found in the wild. Might need to tell him it’s not a good idea lol
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u/Vaultaiya 19h ago
I feel like the goal was for this to be hot but all I can focus on are the sexist gender roles
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u/Tiny-Little-Sheep 16h ago
And also how he murdered their husbands who for all we know didn't do anything wrong and were just goblin villagers.
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u/80s-dilf-Batman 9h ago
And apparently the women are totally cool with their husbands having been murdered, only caring that the utility of the men was lost.
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u/Lil_Puddin 17h ago
It's funnier if we assume the hero is gay. So all these chicks are just using all the tricks in the book and he's begrudgingly dealing with it.
The Hero needs his own Hero now. :(
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u/Khelthuzaad 15h ago
In all the comics ive ever read,there was actually a single one that was questioning the female version of mythical beasts.
I remember it was a comic about Greeks conquering Mount Olympus only to be impended by Cyclops.
When the greeks asked where are the female cyclops,they started to laugh.They started to say(extremely sarcastic) that the women were so beautifull that they had to stay hidden in the caves where they lived.
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u/disturbinglyquietguy 12h ago
Yes, that is fairly common in Greek mythology; only the male version of the creature is considered "monster". One of the most obvious examples is the centaurs: they are depicted in myths as brutish and animalistic, whereas centauress are portrayed as beautiful and graceful—more akin to nymphs than to the males of their species.
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u/Khelthuzaad 12h ago
No man,the joke was the female cyclops were so ugly they had to stay hidden.
What nailed the comversation was the male cyclopes that werent themselves handsome to begin with.
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u/Square-Singer 10h ago
There are quite a few female monsters in Greek mythology. Medusa and the Gorgons, the Sphinx, Scylla, Charybdis, sirens, harpies, furies, Echidna, Empusa.
To be fair, beauty (or the utter opposite) are themes with many of them, but not all.
And I don't know of male versions of pretty much any of them.
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u/AdditionalQuietime 14h ago
Cue that one tiktok posts with the girl saying its hard to socialize because she notices how "misogyny" bleeds thru the cracks of normal socializing
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u/Dumber-Sleepy-Artist 11h ago
Yeah why are the men (from the little we can see) just monsters while the women all have to be thin, busty and pretty
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u/RocketGruntSam 13h ago
Honestly, if I saw a guy come murder all the men I know, I'd probably sweet talk him and see how much work I can get out of him before I get the chance to poison him so that's how I'm choosing to read this.
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u/Early_Common3356 10h ago
Okay, I’m ready for downvotes, but someone needs to say this. Gender equality is only feasible in a modern, peaceful society where basic human needs are met. People can do whatever they want because they have food, shelter, water, safety, etc. That’s definitely not the point of those comics. It’s medieval times at best, and the goblin village is at war with human adventurers. In that setting, men need to be strong to protect their home, and women need to prepare food. Gender equality is a privilege, not something every society can afford.
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u/MiredinDecision 9h ago
The axe doesn't care if the person wielding it has tits. The cleaver cuts whether a man's or a woman's hands hold it. When threats howl at the doors, women do not cower, they defend their homes.
Get off the internet incel bullshit.
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u/Early_Common3356 9h ago
You’re right that women can fight and that weapons can reduce the physical gap. But I wasn’t saying women are incapable. My point is about average constraints in pre-modern/survival settings. Physical differences and childbirth shape the division of labor, so the freedom to choose any role is a privilege many societies can’t afford.
Also, if you actually want to discuss this, let’s keep it civil.
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u/Destroyer_2_2 5h ago
You’re just stating your opinion as fact. I don’t think you want to discuss this.
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u/Pink-Viscera 9h ago
Do you think medieval peasant women were typically stay at home tradwives? Because you're mistaken
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u/Whoobie_ 10h ago
your understanding of medieval gender roles comes from movies and cartoons, you don't know as much as you think
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u/Early_Common3356 9h ago
On average, men are physically stronger, and women are the ones who can give birth. In a survival setting, who is more likely to be the one fighting to protect the other?
Being able to choose your gender role is a privilege that many people simply don’t have when times are hard.
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u/Dd_8630 8h ago
People very often didn't fight.
Actual human activity in pre-industrial societies involved 80% or so of adult men, adult women, and children toiling in fields, farms, and fisheries.
Ploughing and construction was broadly done by men, while handling animals (eg milking), creating textiles, and gathering water was broadly done by women. Both men and women handled harvesting, weeding. This is true across agricultural pre-industrial societies.
What constrained people's work in life wasn't sex. Everyone did everything.
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u/romanichki 3h ago
that man just ate an amanita mushroom. his DNA will now dissolve and he will die
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