BonerJew420 t1_iuiaubv wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:26 PM

Wild women of Borneo was a long-running early 20th century theme in pop culture. In the last era of discovery and exploration…..

Thom360 t1_iuiohnp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:57 PM

Thank you for this insight BonerJew420

LeatherTooler t1_iuka8cv wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:45 PM

I love that some of the most informational top comments on reddit are by people with wild user names

notbob1959 t1_iujqvsy wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:15 PM

There was a 1931 movie titled Wild Women of Borneo. Here is the synopsis from tcm.com:

>This film depicts an expedition by three Americans into the interior of Borneo, where a tribe of savage female warriors is said to dwell. The explorers travel through Mexico and Singapore, where they witness the sacred "fire ordeal," in which Hindu zealots walk across hot coals. Eventually they reach Borneo, where they capture footage of rare breeds of animals, primitive native tribes and the warriors' burial grounds. The wild women are at last sited and photographed in Borneo's Forest of Souls, but they attack the explorers with poison darts and chase them away.

w-e-f-u-n-k OP t1_iuiaxr6 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:27 PM

I didn’t know that, thanks for the info!

BonerJew420 t1_iuib8sp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:29 PM

Borneo was one of those last “mysterious cultures from afar” locations that western cultures mythologized. And sexualized, of course. Amusing, looking back.