While Roman society was MUCH more sexist than anything we would regard as acceptable in modern society, women had many rights at the height of the Roman Empire that later European societies would not keep. The right of women to own property was so strict that gifts from a wife to a husband were not legally recognized - if they divorced, claims that any property of the wife was a gift to her husband would not be recognized, and would be returned to the newly-divorced wife. Women often held significant amounts of property and ran businesses in their own name, and there is ample evidence for women as independent workers in skilled and semiskilled professions.

There is considerable writing at the time discussing the role of women in society, and while the opinions of Roman men are very far from ‘enlightened’, they also quite clearly regard women as more than breeding stock. The Roman author Musonius Rufus even advocated for women to be trained in the arts of war, and posited than any job a man could do, a woman could do also.

Women could divorce their husbands without need for any deeper cause beyond “I don’t want to stay in this marriage anymore”, and domestic abuse within marriage was grounds for civil lawsuits. All rape of freeborn persons (within the context of Roman governance; foreigners being conquered were less lucky) was subject to the death penalty. Bloodline descent (‘breeding stock’) was considered much less important, as Romans placed a higher value on a cultural/loyalty familial system in which adoption was widely accepted and direct descent was less important (though not nil) to being recognized as part of the descendants of the family. The idea of ‘securing the throne’ was not really applicable until later in Roman society when the norms of the city of Rome began to be eroded in favor of a more ‘cosmopolitan’ and universal imperial culture.

/Romaboo moment over

Authoritarian/Libertarian and Economic Left-Right

It’s the Political Compass, just a horoscope for political junkies. Great for making jokes like “The most libertarian position you can take is anprim” and “Centrists are uninterested in anything except grilling” though

It’s so fucking obvious is it that these people are paid by the meat industry.

I disagree. I think many of them are legitimately just that stupid.

Although some probably are paid.

He looks intense as fuck. The cat looks like they’d open the door high on catnip and invite you in for a glass of milk when you were just there to drop off the mail.

What do the X and Y Axis represent?

This is the kind of medical advice I like.

The feminine urge to be angry?

that is just privilege speaking about it’s own privilege…

what

I dig 15 edge America

I’LL EAT YER LIVER

Okay but Alexander was pretty indisputably a prettyboy.

Like, we didn’t just invent twinks in the last century. I promise, they’ve been around.

It’s a complex issue, but think of it like backwards fundamentalist Christians going ballistic over women (especially their daughters) wearing anything more revealing than a sweater. That kind of familial coercion is couched in religious terms and springs from religious values, but is not, strictly speaking, fundamental (ha) to the religion itself.

Nah, just fuck theocracies.

A revolution powered by a combination of progressive anti-monarchists and revanchist religious leaders emerged victorious, only for the progressives to get knee-capped by a Reagan government that claimed to be targeting the religious leadership.

Jesus fucking Christ. Tell me you know nothing about the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution without telling me you know nothing about the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.

Don’t worry, plenty of online ‘leftists’ will tell me that this is what critical support for anti-imperialism looks like.

The US: “Please change your RoE to something that doesn’t make US police look restrained.”

Israel: “No.”

Why are people so racist that it determines their voting choices in great enough numbers that they’re a significant voting bloc?

Because if a voter’s only real position is “Hurt minorities”, other positions are unlikely to stop them from voting for a candidate. On the other hand, people with actual ideologies can be tripped up even by one or two policies that are out-of-sync with their desired policies, reducing turnout.

Looks like I’m in the clear!

Unironically probably yes, even if that was all your intake. The amount of Vitamin C you need to prevent scurvy is incredibly small. It really is a disease you can’t get unless you’re trying for it anymore. Like, fries and onion rings have like 2 mg of Vitamin C per serving, and you only need 10 mg a day to stave off scurvy.

Malice and incompetence aren’t mutually exclusive. Reagan was both. Numerous biographies bear out that the man was a moron, but ideologically aligned with gruesome and competent people in his administration.

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