OSTROGOTHS
KINSHIP
&
GENDER ISSUES
Family
ties among the Ostrogoths are cozy and comfy, sometimes verging on the
cutesy. Ostrogoth lads stay home with their mothers until the age of
18 when they leave to pursue advanced degrees or to engage in piracy
and mayhem for fun and profit. During childhood, the swains learn the
ancient arts of knife dancing, head banging, sheep surgery, ballad composition
and aeronautic engineering, while the gals train in drum-beating, runic
calligraphy and acrobatic gardening.
Women
are viewed as life-givers and ass-kickers in Ostrogoth culture. They
should not be provoked except for entertainment purposes.
Grown
men spend many weeks a year engaged in daffodil
cultivation in preparation the the annual Festival of Fecundity held
in mid-spring.
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