drunkenfeminista:

brendanthesalty:

mortisethetortise:

huilfbsdihfkjG THEY DISCOVERED AMELIA EARHART’S BONES ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WHAT THE THIS IS A PERFECT COINCIDENCE 

It’s kind of even better than that.

They actually didn’t find new bones. Rather, a forensic scientist re-examined measurements taken from bones found on Nikumamoru Island back in 1940. The bones were originally examined by some dude back in 1941 who unequivocally concluded they had to belong to a “short, stocky male” because there’s no way they could belong to some fearless globe-trotting adventurer delicate woman. Using new techniques to examine the measurements, the scientist has concluded with 99% certainly the Nikumamoru bones belonged to Eartheart.

So yeah, basically Earheart’s disappearance was only a “mystery” for like eighty years because of lowkey sexism and shitty science. And now we more or less know the truth. On International Women’s Day.

lmao this is so typical fucking tumblr. this is not the case AT ALL. the only reason it was concluded that the bones must belong to a male is because forensic science was not what it is today back in 1940. hoodless didnt look at the fucking bones and go “oh these are fearless adventuring bones, they cant belong to a woman!” he looked at the bones and went “huh these sure are some fucking bones, ill do my best to find out who they belong to!” shut the fuck up, not everything is some misogynistic conspiracy to keep women down jesus christ