Vikings were not a culture, Vikings was the name given to people who got on ships to go raiding and pillaging in foreign lands. It was a choice to be a viking. And hopefully I don't need to explain what raiding and pillaging involves.
The_Terrible_Humbaba
joined 2 years ago
Yeah, a lot of people seem to forget what raiding and pillaging involves, especially during that time. I hate when people try to romanticize that crap. It's like if 1000 years from now someone tried to romanticize Nazis or Russian soldiers.
It's homophobic to look down on someone for being a bottom. How is this hard to understand? It's nothing new either, it's something that's been around for a while and which is part of macho and homophobic culture. You can see that in prison rape/culture as well. No one questions your manliness if you're the top, but if you're a bottom you get called the bitch.
Vikings was the name given specifically to the ones who got on ships to go raiding and pillaging. It was not the normal citizens.
Just like not every German citizen was part of the Nazi party, not every Nord was a Viking.