Swords, Knives, and No Men: Ukraine’s All-Women Amazon Tribe
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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11:00AM, Thursday September 24th 2009
Running away to the forest with an all-women tribe of ass-kicking Amazons is a fantasy few of us will ever realize, despite the vows we decree when we’re pissed off at some bozo. But in Ukraine a tribe of 150 women, who call themselves the Asgarda, live in the Carpathian Mountains completely separate from society and train in the martial arts. The Asgarda aren’t jilted lovers, though—some of the tribe members are quite young. The women have seceded from society because sexual trafficking is rampant in Eastern European countries like Ukraine and gender oppression is a fact of life everywhere in the world. But the fed-up women of the Asgarda isolate themselves from men in a statement of female empowerment and independence.
According to Planet magazine, they live according to the tribal traditions of the Amazons in Greek mythology and train with swords from a Soviet karate master. And, apparently, they all have scary knives! Definitely click through the 10 pics in the photo spread shot by French photographer Guillaume Herbaut, who documented the women of the Asgada and their mountain life. [Planet]
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ChoJinn
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 10:06 am: [report]
So you’re saying we’re going to Ukraine?
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 10:31 am: [report]
Soon they will be chopping off their left boob to shoot arrows better.
moonblossom
wrote on September 24 2009 @ 11:01 am: [report]
I wonder if they are accepting franchise applications?
*Lee*
wrote on September 25 2009 @ 12:11 pm: [report]
This is amazing, I so want to go.
CaleeKay
wrote on September 26 2009 @ 06:44 pm: [report]
Angelina Jolie is part of this right?
ripbillanew1
wrote on September 26 2009 @ 08:06 pm: [report]
publicity stunt.
theattack
wrote on September 27 2009 @ 05:08 pm: [report]
@Cheese, I generally find that my right boob gets in the way while shooting much more than my left boob does.
_jsw_
wrote on September 27 2009 @ 05:22 pm: [report]
The direct link, by the way, is this/
This is all pretty cool, but part of me worries that it will just draw in men who want to “prove” they’re more powerful. I hope these women stay safe and strong.