Honorary men, but at the price of forswearing a sex life. The burrnesha (often translated as "sworn virgins") are one of the instances where gender variant females still face constraints based on their sex. For some, it is their choice, a way to avoid the patriarchal destiny of wifehood; but this status also has historical causes: the loss of men in war and especially feuds between clans created a need that many families filled by designating a daughter from birth to fill the male role. They "take a vow of chastity and live the rest of their lives socially recognized as men. The practice is most common in patriarchal northern Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, where burrnesha are recognized under the tribal [and deeply patriarchal] Kanun law, but also exists, or has existed, to a lesser extent in other parts of the western Balkans, including Bosnia, Dalmatia (Croatia), Serbia and North Macedonia. ... "In times when women had a prescribed [subordinate] role, burrnesha gave up their preexisting sexual, reproductive and social identities to acquire the same freedoms as men. They could dress as men, be head of the household, move freely in social situations, and take work traditionally open only to men. ... "Sworn virgins have been documented in the area as early as the 15th century. The tradition of sworn virgins in Albania likely developed out of the Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit, a set of codes and laws developed by Lekë Dukagjini and used mostly in northern Albania and Kosovo from the Ottoman era until the 20th century. The Kanun is not a religious document; many groups follow it, including Albanian Orthodox, Catholics and Muslims. "The Kanun dictates that families must be patrilineal (meaning wealth is inherited through a family's men) and patrilocal (upon marriage, a woman moves into the household of her husband's family). Women are treated like property of the family. Under the Kanun, women are stripped of many rights. They cannot smoke, wear a watch, or vote in local elections. They cannot buy land, and there are many jobs they are not permitted to hold. There are also establishments that they cannot enter. "The nature of this culture involves a history of violence in the form of endemic blood feuds. This practice inadvertently produces sworn virgins. In many cases, the fighting between men left families with no remaining male members. This created a need for someone to be able to inherit their father’s or brother’s wealth and continue providing for the family, thus a daughter undergoes the ceremony to be considered a sworn virgin. "The practice of sworn virginhood was first reported by missionaries, travelers, geographers and anthropologists, who visited the mountains of northern Albania in the 19th and early 20th centuries. One of them was Edith Durham, who took the accompanying photograph. (shown; this burrnesha clearly worked outdoors) ... "A person can become a sworn virgin at any age. Motivations for doing so include personal desire, to avoid forced marriage, or to satisfy familial obligations. One becomes a sworn virgin by swearing an irrevocable oath, in front of twelve village or tribal elders, to adopt the role and practice celibacy. After this, sworn virgins live as men and others relate to them as such, usually though not always using masculine pronouns to address them or speak about them to other people. "In Slavic languages with three grammatical genders, they are never spoken about in the third gender. Sworn virgins may dress in male clothing, use a male name, carry a gun, smoke, drink alcohol, take on male work, act as the head of a household (for example, living with a sister or mother), play music, sing, and sit and talk socially with men. [By implication, women could do none of these things.] Sworn virgins occupy a formal, socially defined masculine role. The New York Times referred to the practice as "a centuries-old tradition in which women declared themselves men so they could enjoy male privilege". "According to Marina Warner, the sworn virgin's "true sex will never again, on pain of death, be alluded to either in [his] presence or out of it." Similar practices occurred in some societies of indigenous peoples of the Americas. "Breaking the vow was once punishable by death, [!] but it is doubtful that this punishment is still carried out. Many sworn virgins today still refuse to go back on their oath because their community would reject them for breaking the vows. However, it is sometimes possible to take back the vows if the reasons or motivations or obligations to family which led to taking the vow no longer exist. "There are many reasons why someone might take this vow, and observers recorded a variety of motivations. One person spoke of becoming a sworn virgin in order to not be separated from his father, and another in order to live and work with a sister. Some hoped to avoid a specific unwanted marriage, and others hoped to avoid marriage in general; becoming a sworn virgin was also the only way for families who had committed children to an arranged marriage to refuse to fulfil it, without dishonouring the groom's family and risking a blood feud. "It was the only way a woman could inherit her family's wealth, which was particularly important in a society in which blood feuds (gjakmarrja) resulted in the deaths of many male Albanians, leaving many families without male heirs. (However, anthropologist Jeffrey Dickemann suggests this motive may be "over-pat", pointing out that a non-child-bearing woman would have no heirs to inherit after her, and also that in some families not one but several daughters became sworn virgins, and in others the later birth of a brother did not end the sworn virgin's masculine role. "Moreover, a child may have been desired to "carry on" an existing feud, according to Marina Warner. The sworn virgin became "a warrior in disguise to defend [his] family like a man." If a sworn virgin was killed in a blood feud, the death counted as a full life for the purposes of calculating blood money, rather than the half-life a woman was counted as. "It is also likely that many people chose to become sworn virgins simply because it afforded them much more freedom than would otherwise have been available in a patrilineal culture in which women were secluded, sex-segregated, required to be virgins before marriage and faithful afterwards, betrothed as children and *married by sale* without their consent, continually bearing and raising children, constantly physically labouring, and always required to defer to men, particularly their husbands and fathers, and submit to being beaten. [What a deal! who would not want to escape from that?] "Dickemann suggests mothers may have played an important role in persuading children to become sworn virgins. A widow without sons traditionally had few options in Albania: she could return to her birth family, stay on as a servant [! on this, see Comments] in the family of her deceased husband, or remarry. "With a son or surrogate son, she could live out her life in the home of her adulthood, in the company of her child. Murray quotes testimony recorded by René Gremaux: "Because if you get married I'll be left alone, but if you stay with me, I'll have a son." On hearing those words the daughter Djurdja "threw down her embroidery" and became a man. ... "The Balkan sworn celibates are not simply biological women and social men. There are cases in which the sworn virgin only took on some aspects of men’s roles. Some were known to still prefer the company of women. Others presumed the role of men during the day but acted as women at night. The reverse is true as well. [What does that mean?] They also argue that sworn virgins, when their status protects them from blood feuds, take on the role of not quite a man, but a third gender entirely. "The sexual practices of the Balkan sworn virgins have relatively little research related to it. Despite the presence of their virginity, the question of homosexuality comes into play. Many of these men were recorded as not knowing what lesbianism was, despite the social acceptance of homosexuality among shepherds in the area. [Again, male privilege predominates; the option to be lesbian was unthinkable, virtually foreclosed, except in the greatest secrecy.] "National Geographic's Taboo estimated in 2002 that there were fewer than 102 Albanian sworn virgins left. As of 2022, while there were no exact figures, twelve burrnesha were estimated to remain in Northern Albania and Kosovo." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sworn_virgins
most of these arranged marriages via the rich freemasons are all genetic satanic incest this is why some wives have access to billions of dollars and you do not its tough to explain but they mastered finding alike people genetically from some other place in society for their illuminati to be with doesnt mean they like each other or anything that is up to them but a lot of people wonder why some of these wives have immense wealth that the rest of us could never achieve in ten lifetimes they do this with twinks and stuff too its totally fucked in the head oh well glad I am not apart of them they put it in our faces with trinity and neo who most likely were brother and sister so yeah its how they maintain all their satanic control and power over humanity well one of them anyway a lot of gay and lesbians are like this which is why we are such a powerful group of people in society
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dunno what to say they kind of altered my path and criminality and allowed me to change my life around by discovering myself but they have serious involvement with organizations like eastern star womens freemasons and the teacher displayed a pen from lions club which is also a freemason thing but like when I tried to give dhamma service they refused me based on my mental illness even though I have been stable for over 20 years so who knows if you can get in or lie about being deranged have fun dont tell them anything about mental health or what medications you are on they have no right to ask whatsoever in canada according to basic human rights laws I dunno what the situation is in india with this but it is a serious thing to do here and also they kind of force the triple gem on people which I did not agree with and may actually turn people off to force this type of refuge affirmation on people of other faiths to kind of forcefully commit to the buddhist faith on your first day of your course I can see why a lot of people leave in the first few days its messed up oh well
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Canada will swiftly bypass the USA as the worlds superpower its funny so many countries are gonna dump trillions into our bonds its fucken great only 30 million of us too lol basic income for us will happen probably within 5 years which will be great to bypass the humiliation of benefits but I will probably have millions by then which will suck for my basic income but I guess all good to go lmao
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my new possible roomie must have laughed he mentioned he likes how clean my environment is and I retorted "I am studying janitorial so i like to have a clean place to live" like its funny how long you studying for he would have asked or like what the fuck do you need to study lmao its funny going to college for 6 days to learn everything provincially soon so its pretty involved but not too much hahaha gonna be a PhD in custodial or an executive janitor but like even to get basic employment these days compared to early 90's is highly involved and advanced and you have to memorize a lot of basic things which is why most people stay on benefits
its actually pretty funny some of these advanced masons like way past levels of 1000 etc are way more evolved than you can imagine and are not pedo or into satanism we are taught there is only 33 degrees etc but like yours truly is probably an honorary mason past a few hundred levels which is why they leave me alone all day to beak off but that could change all in a moment if I make the wrong decision or whatever or do not make the right choices in life or give into darkness when I have hopelessly fought for good but like I have always held out with like maybe there is a few good powerful people at the top but its funny like donald is probably around 33 but like someone like bezos or bill gates could be pretty high up there maybe made mistakes but ultimately impressed the universal powers that be to attain higher levels of freedom who really knows oh well ? I just hope for the best but like I know people have gone to prison for conspiracy for less than 10% of what i have discovered just makes me think about it all like why they just leave me alone so I guess its all okay and not everyone is evil to the core lol
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