Truth vs fiction.

[serafaery]

“The idea that ancient women warriors (Amazons) removed their right breast to improve bow hunting is a myth, not a historical fact. The belief originated from a false Greek etymology interpreting "Amazon" as "without breast" (\(a\)- "without" + mazos "breast"), rather than from actual practices.”

Someone somewhere mentioned this as a true thing recently, while I’ve been processing a botched breast surgery that has left me disfigured.

There was a part of my brain that has been screaming ever since, please tell me no one would ever actually do that to themselves.


This is a Gemini answer but I still find it profoundly reassuring.