Riddles in the Exeter Book figure vagina, penis, and sexual intercourse and offer great critical potential for considering the riddle of men’s sexuality. … Read the post ancient Exeter riddles highlight contradictions of men’s sexuality
In The Owl and Nightingale, birds parodically debate adultery and marriage with patent partisanship for women. Bird-brain scholars haven’t understood. … Read the post bird-brains engage in scholarly debate: The Owl and the Nightingale
The medieval Latin poem Musa iocosa challenged pedestalizing women by suggesting that a beautiful woman isn’t an angel and could have foot odor. … Read the post musa iocosa: vital medieval poetic medicine for pedestalizing women
Beware, the blind swallows many a fly! So John Lydgate warned men about women in an early-15th-century poem of men’s sexed protest. … Read the post John Lydgate’s early-15th-century poem of warning to men, in modern English
In the Aeneid, warriors wearing a golden sword-belt showing husband-killing Danaids indicates men’s delusions about violence and paternal authority. … Read the post shun Danaids, reject violence against men, and relearn the Aeneid