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for DC, if you read the comics you’ll actually find that women are included a lot in the source material and even play pivotal roles in fan favorite storylines, and then strangely get left out more in fanon than canon. as sexist as DC is in canon, what with the frequent hyper sexualization and demonization of the women in this series …….. for the love of god at least women exist there. to many batfam writers it’s like the worlds population flipped from being a 50:50 gender ratio to being 99:1 and women are an endangered species being preserved in some conservatory somewhere.

women play a WAY bigger role in batman comics than most of you care to learn. huntress is pivotal in several arcs, so is catwoman, so is oracle. some fics will even specifically go out of their way to reference some of these arcs — and then leave out the women like they were never there! and it’s impolite to ask writers or artist where the missing women are so i just click out and move on, but like, seriously? every time? that’s not even counting the amount of AUs where by the writer’s full control, women who had been critically important to these men just straight up don’t exist.

you guys expect women to just be cool with being in fandoms that go out of their way to write us out of the narrative? you think we’re just going to have a fun time?

this was also about Zelda. the zelda series proper has countless pivotal, important, plot relevant, iconic women, and their presence and choices, particularly zelda, often genuinely impact the storyline of the game. sometimes in huge ways like, the story wouldn’t have happened at all without her. women were actually so central that a way bigger portion of all major NPCs tended to be women; 4 out of 5 of the sages you save in Ocarina of Time are women, and even Sheik is actually Zelda in disguise!

but fandom sexism has been around a long time in zelda too. an old popular theory had fans pretending sheik was a separate character to zelda entirely — to the point we had people in the fandom with this headcanon literally saying “ugh oot zelda was so boring she didn’t do anything” when she was literally sheik and had one of the MOST central, active zelda roles to not only the story but even the combat! people let a sexist headcanon make them forget what women actually did!!!!

but this criticism is more lobbied at a particular fan circle who have, truly a genuinely creative idea — what if all the links met? though they also weren’t the first to have the idea (in my earlier zelda fandom experience there was a similar AU), but this group has majorly popularized it. but this has led to a shocking amount of erasure of the women depicted in fan creations. in what was once a fandom that would reliably depict women in a meaningful and story central way…. now a huge portion of fan works are just …dudes. now the portion of fanworks about women are way smaller. and to see zelda play a meaningful role in a narrative it’s mostly some flavor of shippy. zelda fanworks have tilted from once being a pretty woman positive and woman centric fandom … to overwhelmingly ‘zelda & related works’ being about dudes and their relationship to other dudes, both platonic and romantic. and i can’t stress this enough, 90% of these guys never met in canon. writers are going out of their way to bolster relationships between fictional guys instead of exploring link’s relationship to the many women he’s known, or depicting the relationships between these women. thank god though this is still a better fandom than batman because at least there’s still an exceptional handful of writers still writing zelda epics where she’s the main character. whereas in DC, there is an extremely noteworthy absence of ANYTHING where women are the main character. i genuinely can’t remember the last time a girl was the central character of a narrative, let alone for a work that got extremely popular the way fics about men can. and at least in zelda, we can filter out most works relating to this AU (though it’s pretty tough to content filter as it’s only 2 letters long (LU) and there’s a whole lot of words that get filtered with it. &many on Ao3 don’t tag it properly)

anyway. all this to say.

this isn’t me saying “don’t make what inspires you” or me trying to force writers at gunpoint to write more women. it’s me saying like… make what speaks to you — but why does ‘what speaks to people’ usually mean large groups of men and no women? why is this dynamic invented even when women are there and important in canon? why is ‘what speaks to people’ the idea to diminish the roles of women in media specifically to prop up men instead?

tl;dr:

in my experience, the source materials’ original authors DO usually include women.

Well, one famous thing about the Spanish Civil War is the International Brigades: volunteers, largely in highly varied shades of leftism, from all over Europe and the world who showed up to fight the fascists. (Anglophone readers may recall Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.) So alongside the songs in Spanish and Catalan that came out of or get associated with the war, there are many International Brigades songs in English, German (yes, lots of German communists and other anti-fascists in the '30s went off to fight fascism where it seemed vulnerable), Italian (ditto), French, and this collection appears to have at least one each in Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and one that's attributed to "Yugoslavia" but I do not have the South Slavic expertise to tell you what language it is in. Not a song, but I have seen a poster specifically recruiting Esperantist volunteers. Very multilingual environment already.

And then... the Spanish Republic lost. The fascists won. The songs went pretty quiet in Spain. But the international volunteers that survived and went home kept singing them. And so did one of their sympathizers: Pete Seeger, whose recording Songs of the Lincoln Brigade introduced many of them to a broader audience. On that album you can hear Seeger singing songs in both English and Spanish:

Or how about the German communist volunteer and singer Ernst Busch doing the "Song of the United Front" in Spanish, English, French, and German:

(oh gosh my YouTube music recommendations are going to be so communist for a bit. That's all right, they've been quite Jacobite lately so that will balance it out.)

Of course, fascism in Spain didn't last forever, and today many singers and groups in Spain do perform and record the same songs. ... Including the International Brigade ones. (Unfortunately I can't track it down, so this may not be true to any extent at all, but I have read a remark somewhere [possibly in someone's liner notes?] that after the death of Franco, young people in Spain rediscovered these songs specifically through Pete Seeger's recordings...!)

So you can find the Catalan "Quartet Brossa" singing the Italian Bella Ciao:

Or the evidently Spanish-speaking "Coro Popular Jabalón" doing their best American English in the soldiers-complaint song "Quartermaster Store":

On the same album they have a song in Basque:

And so on and so on.

(You may have noticed Spain's minority languages, including Catalan and Basque, making a good showing here: that's no accident, those were evidently quite republican areas, as will not surprise you if you know anything about Franco's language policy.)

Anyway those are the main historical reasons I'm aware of why music from and about Spanish Civil War is so multilingual. Obviously my original claim that "almost nobody is ever singing in their native language" had an element of hyperbole - the Americans do sing songs in English (as do the Irish), the Spanish in Spanish, the Germans in German, and of course the Catalans in Catalan. But if you look for Spanish Civil War music, many of the "standards" you'll find are International Brigades songs, many others are Catalan as well as Spanish, so no matter what your native language is you will have plenty of songs that aren't in it.

And apparently you sing them anyway. Because, at least for the people making these records, it seems it's not about where you're from, or even whether your accent is any good, it's about standing side by side.

Definitely some of the same things you brought up! Looks like the whole second half is in German. The person who burned the CD seems to be confused as to whether it's from 1961 or 1965. There is zero information anywhere about who is singing

Some quick googling suggests it's this

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a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

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7. You can fold my daughter through any two points.

10. When two or more daughters are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest daughter is preferable.

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Well, one famous thing about the Spanish Civil War is the International Brigades: volunteers, largely in highly varied shades of leftism, from all over Europe and the world who showed up to fight the fascists. (Anglophone readers may recall Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.) So alongside the songs in Spanish and Catalan that came out of or get associated with the war, there are many International Brigades songs in English, German (yes, lots of German communists and other anti-fascists in the '30s went off to fight fascism where it seemed vulnerable), Italian (ditto), French, and this collection appears to have at least one each in Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and one that's attributed to "Yugoslavia" but I do not have the South Slavic expertise to tell you what language it is in. Not a song, but I have seen a poster specifically recruiting Esperantist volunteers. Very multilingual environment already.

And then... the Spanish Republic lost. The fascists won. The songs went pretty quiet in Spain. But the international volunteers that survived and went home kept singing them. And so did one of their sympathizers: Pete Seeger, whose recording Songs of the Lincoln Brigade introduced many of them to a broader audience. On that album you can hear Seeger singing songs in both English and Spanish:

Or how about the German communist volunteer and singer Ernst Busch doing the "Song of the United Front" in Spanish, English, French, and German:

(oh gosh my YouTube music recommendations are going to be so communist for a bit. That's all right, they've been quite Jacobite lately so that will balance it out.)

Of course, fascism in Spain didn't last forever, and today many singers and groups in Spain do perform and record the same songs. ... Including the International Brigade ones. (Unfortunately I can't track it down, so this may not be true to any extent at all, but I have read a remark somewhere [possibly in someone's liner notes?] that after the death of Franco, young people in Spain rediscovered these songs specifically through Pete Seeger's recordings...!)

So you can find the Catalan "Quartet Brossa" singing the Italian Bella Ciao:

Or the evidently Spanish-speaking "Coro Popular Jabalón" doing their best American English in the soldiers-complaint song "Quartermaster Store":

On the same album they have a song in Basque:

And so on and so on.

(You may have noticed Spain's minority languages, including Catalan and Basque, making a good showing here: that's no accident, those were evidently quite republican areas, as will not surprise you if you know anything about Franco's language policy.)

Anyway those are the main historical reasons I'm aware of why music from and about Spanish Civil War is so multilingual. Obviously my original claim that "almost nobody is ever singing in their native language" had an element of hyperbole - the Americans do sing songs in English (as do the Irish), the Spanish in Spanish, the Germans in German, and of course the Catalans in Catalan. But if you look for Spanish Civil War music, many of the "standards" you'll find are International Brigades songs, many others are Catalan as well as Spanish, so no matter what your native language is you will have plenty of songs that aren't in it.

And apparently you sing them anyway. Because, at least for the people making these records, it seems it's not about where you're from, or even whether your accent is any good, it's about standing side by side.