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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
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castration culture

satire’s end: Momus castrated for offending women

Pallas Athena, goddess of justice, and Juno, the ruling wife of Jupiter, conspired to disrupt a divine assembly and get Momus, god of satire, castrated. … Read the post satire’s end: Momus castrated for offending women

Anticlaudianus mocks ruling sisters creating garden without seed

Amid confusion of language, Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus narrates ruling sisters foolishly creating a novus homo, intended to be a perfect man. … Read the post Anticlaudianus mocks ruling sisters creating garden without seed

castration is Satanic: penis at center of man’s earthly being

Dante Alighieri and Leonardo da Vinci recognized that the center of a man’s earthly being is his penis and that castration is satanic. … Read the post castration is Satanic: penis at center of man’s earthly being

castration culture shows ancient, bloody grip in Hesiod’s Theogony

Gaia’s vicious hostility toward her husband Uranus’s genitals indicates castration culture in Hesiod’s Theogony. Bernardus’ Cosmographia is more humane. … Read the post castration culture shows ancient, bloody grip in Hesiod’s Theogony

with castrated father, Perceval taught to be woman-pleaser

Chrétien de Troyes’ medieval romance Perceval, The Story of the Grail, points to the Holy Grail for breaking the spell of gynocentrism today. … Read the post with castrated father, Perceval taught to be woman-pleaser

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