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Ghenghis Khan Descendants Eat For Free
pillageplunder writes "CNN has an article about a London restaurant that is offering diners the chance to see if they are descended from the great Khan (Genghis that is). If you are, then you get a free meal. The article delves a bit into bioarchaeology, with some pretty interesting tidbits of info."
Actually, it's a great gimmick, and with the test costing about $330 dollars, I am certain that they don't lose a dime, in fact they probably make more money per customer, and whichever lab is doing the testing is getting free publicity for the real 'meat' of the DNA testing business; paternity testing.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Ummm...
It's a true statement, isn't it? That Genghis Khan and his good friends, The Mongol Horde, swept through raping and pillaging? It was pretty much their modus operandi, from all the accounts I've read.
Oh sure, in all the excitement, I'm sure a few guys got buggered too, but on the whole, it was probably mostly women getting raped or taken captive. How is this fact sexist?
It's a strange world -- let's keep it that way
"The Mongol Horde, swept through raping and pillaging" tells me a fact about the Mongol Horde.
"The Mongol Horde took their women", tells me that the speaker considers that the women were property.
It matters not what position *they* considered the women, the speaker is also making that assertion.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
"Took" is a common (albeit older) term for "rape" or "coitus"; it technically isn't equivalent to "rape" since rape denotes a situation where the women is unwilling and "take" connotes a situation where the women's willingness is more-or-less irrelevant.
Thus, "took their women" is proper, if slightly archaic (which is appropriate in the context of acts thousands of years old), English that in the context of this story is perfectly correct and non-sexist (at least for the speaker). (And yes, I have heard of men being "taken", albeit usually in a homo-sexual context... think PYITA prison here.)
Since you aren't clear on Englist usage and seem inclined to accuse people of sexism when you don't understand what they are saying correctly, please make sure you can explain the difference between "connotation" and "denotation" before you start (incorrectly) going off about how this message is sexist.
With $330, I can pay for dinners for an entire year here in India, considering I pay $0.67 every night for my food.
Sorry I am not a descendant of the khan
LessonOfTheDay : Free food is not always good for your pocket; unless you can sue the restaurant for troubling your stomach