Here's a differnt kind of fundy. Aboriginal fundies do exist.
Background: A book was recently published which includes didgeridoo lessons for girls.
"We know very clearly that there is a range of consequences for females touching a didgeridoo, it's men's business, and in the girls book, instructions on how to use it, for us it is an extreme cultural indiscretion."
Dr Rose says the consequences for a girl touching a didgeridoo can be quite extreme.
"It would vary in the places where it is, infertility would be the start of it ranging to other consequences," he said.
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didgerido?! what on earth is that?
Edit: is that some sort of replacement word for penis?
if so, that couldnt be any LAMER
Let's do a controlled experiment.
Ok, now Girl A will touch a digderidildo or whatever this is called.
*touch*
Now Girl B will touch a placebo, represented by this lamp.
Now we will test for infertility. brb 3-way.
You know (I mean, really), a didgeridoo is not a penis. However, taken in this context, the consequences of a girl touching a penis can be quite extreme.
Infertility (birth control) may be a good thing in this regard.
I not only touched, but attempted to play, a didgeridoo once. A few years later I was happily married and had a kid.
Of course, then I gave the kid up for adoption, my husband turned out to be transsexual, and *I* turned out to be transsexual.
I'm still happily married.
Touching the didgeridoo made me and my spouse trans? Wow.
(Didgeridoo, the instrument. Quite a cool sound, actually)
Well, to be fair, a digeridoo is really quite a masculine, phallic object (and about two metres long, no less - hah, in your dreams, mate!)- it's not surprising, then, that some people would get uncomfortable associating them with girls.
Interesting in that it raises the question of whether aboriginals who hold onto millenia-old beliefs (that are not Abrahamic) can be called 'fundies'. But unless there are also musical instruments that only women can touch and men are not allowed to 'violate' (under threat of infertility), it does seem rather similar to fundy thinking.
"I don't think you can call them fundies. They're a primitive tribe who don't know any better."
Oh no he didn't!!! Lol, RSTDT.
How the flying purple fuck would that work? Playing a wind instrument might make you deaf, it might make you keel over from shortness of breath, but it won't make you miscarry. Stupid superstitious bastard.
The guy who said it isn't an Aborigine. He's an anthropologist who is trying to be culturally sensitive and came across sounding like a prat. He was acting like the didgeridoo really has magical powers.
I am a woman, I bought my didgeridoo from an Aborigine in Australia, he didn't care that I bought it. To be honest, I think the Aboriginal population in Australia have bigger problems than who's playing a bloody didgeridoo.
Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Oh, like keep playing till I shoot through, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I'm dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hanging on the shed
All together now
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down_______________Rolf Harris
I could understand "it's considered culturally inappropriate by a large number of traditional players for women and girls to play didgeridoo", but Dr. Rose is full of fail.
OTOH, the writers of the book are also full of fail for not considering the cultural context of the instrument.
Confused?
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